TVCA-PROC-0881 - Business Tees Valley Support Spine Framework

Buyer
Tees Valley Combined Authority
Value
£12,000,000
Closes
30 October 2026
Where
Darlington, the North East
Type
Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)

In plain English

Tees Valley Combined Authority is setting up a framework to buy business support services across 7 different industry sectors (manufacturing, digital, creative, games, female founders, foundational economy, and expert mentors). They want one supplier per sector to deliver coaching, mentoring, and advisory services for 2 years, with a possible 2-year extension.

What the buyer wants

• Deliver tailored business support, mentoring, coaching and specialist advice to companies in your assigned sector • Help businesses start, grow, improve resilience, innovate and scale their operations • Provide access to networks, expertise, investment guidance and commercial development support • Work flexibly with the contracting authority through a competitive flexible procedure

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Likely requirements

Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.

This is a large framework contract worth £12 million total. Most sole traders and micro-businesses will struggle because they lack the track record, team capacity, insurance limits and financial resilience to deliver sustained business support across an entire sector; you will also need to bid against established consultancies and training providers.

How to bid

This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.

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