CS20345 UKSA UK Space Business Support Programme

*** PLEASE NOTE this is a contract award notice, not a call for competition *** The final date and time for the submission of bids is Tuesday 3rd November 2020 at 14:00. DO NOT apply directly to the buyer. All tender information MUST be submitted through the Delta eSourcing Portal. Brief Description of Requirement: The UK Space Agency is responsible for all strategic decisions on the UK civil space programme and we provide a clear, single voice for UK space ambitions. The UK Space Agency is at the heart of UK efforts to explore and benefit from space. UKSA is made up of about 250 staff based in Swindon, Westminster and Harwell, Oxfordshire and is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS). In 2015 the UK Space Agency's ambition was to establish a network of support to growing space companies across the country. Subsequently UK Space Agency partnered with a number of existing business incubators to identify and provide support specifically to space start-up companies. Having achieved this, we now want to increase business support activity with a more coordinated approach and create a scalable business support programme that will enable Space companies to flourish across the UK. The UK Space Business Support Programme will be high profile and play a significant role in UKSA's contribution to Government objectives for the UK to be considered the best place in the world to start or scale a new Space business. As such, we want to engage a world class delivery partner to work with us to develop and deliver a world class business support programme to space companies to achieve economic growth, both regional and national, and to commercialise their products and services sooner and to encourage new space start-ups and entrepreneurs. We will be looking for a delivery partner to design and deliver a core curriculum of business support offerings that are valuable to start-up and / or high-growth potential space businesses throughout the UK. We want to support as many viable space companies through these challenging times as we can. As such, we expect that the training material and advice provided will be relevant to every business no matter where they are situated, and tailored to specific regions where legislation/guidance may differ. We envisage a two-pronged approach - Broadcast and Direct support, with more details on each of these within the RFP documentation. The contract duration will be for a period of approximately four (4) months from December 2020 to April 2021. The budget range for this opportunity is £166,667 to a maximum of £333,333 excluding VAT. For full details of the requirement please refer to the Request for Proposal documentation available to download from this notice and the Delta eSourcing Portal. All submissions will be assessed in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, for procurement values that exceed Regulation 5 (Threshold amounts).