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Highlands and Islands Enterprise

Rural Growth Deal (RGD) Business Skills and Leadership Programme

Business ServicesCPV 79411100
Value£474k
Deadline23 Dec 2025
Published20 Nov 2025
RegionNationwide
Contract value in context
£474ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

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The brief

HIE requires a suitably qualified and experienced supplier to deliver a Business Skills and Leadership Programme specifically for Argyll and Bute Council area.

This programme is fully funded by the Argyll and Bute Rural Growth Deal (RGD) and will be available to participants within this geographic area.

Award of this contract depends on securing RGD funding, which is not yet confirmed.

Approval is expected by March 2026, with a potential contract start in April 2026.

HIE may cancel the process or not award the contract if funding is not approved.

HIE's service requirements are divided into 3 strands.

1 Young and Emerging Leaders Programme; 2.

Leadership for Growth/Strategic Leadership Programme and 3.

Mentoring Programme.

Strands 1 and 2 will be delivered to cohort of participants through a series of modules, delivered via workshops.

Delivery should be a hybrid model i.e, a blend of on-l…

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

HIE requires a suitably qualified and experienced

HIE requires a suitably qualified and experienced supplier to deliver a Business Skills and Leadership Programme specifically for Argyll and Bute Council area.

02

Delivery should be a hybrid model i.e

Delivery should be a hybrid model i.e, a blend of on-line and face-to-face delivery.

03

The mentoring programme will be mainly online

The mentoring programme will be mainly online apart from the first session that must be face-to-face.

04

The 3-year budget currently available to deliver

The 3-year budget currently available to deliver these services is between GBP 260,000 and GBP 280,000 (excluding VAT).

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
tender · Open
Source
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Buyer ref
075647-2025
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