Business Support Services DPS
- Buyer
- Warwickshire County Council
- Value
- Not published
- Closes
- 23 February 2029
- Where
- WARWICK, the West Midlands
- Type
- Dynamic purchasing system (open to join)
In plain English
Warwickshire County Council is setting up a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to find suppliers who can deliver business support services across 13 different areas, including start-up advice, innovation support, finance help, skills training, and sector-specific support for industries like manufacturing, digital, retail, and care. This is an open, ongoing system where the council will invite suppliers to bid for individual pieces of work as they arise, rather than awarding one big contract upfront.
What the buyer wants
• Provide business support services to companies in Warwickshire across one or more of 13 specialisms (start-up support, innovation, access to finance, employment & skills, sector support for automotive, digital, low carbon, retail, rural, social care, or visitor economy) • Register on the council's e-tendering platform (In-Tend) and respond to individual calls for work when they are issued • Be flexible, the scope and funding of services may change during the contract period, and you can choose which opportunities to bid for
Likely requirements
Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.
No single disqualifier will knock out most SMEs. This is deliberately open, but you must be able to demonstrate genuine expertise in at least one of the 13 business support areas listed, and you must be able to register and manage bids through an online e-tendering platform. If you have no track record in business advice, training, finance, or sector support, this will be difficult.
How to bid
This is a Dynamic Purchasing System: an open list of approved suppliers. You can apply to join at any time while it runs, and once accepted you can bid for the individual contracts the buyer runs through it.
How dynamic purchasing systems work
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