PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE
Essex County Council · published 12 Feb 2025. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.
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Essex County Council (ECC) intends to procure a specialist provider to provide Growth Hub support. Growth Hubs are an established business support service provided, which provide free and impartial signposting, information, and advice to all businesses looking to succeed, helping them to navigate the national and local support landscape. It is Government grant funded annually by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and provides a one stop shop for business support services that offers: • Information, navigation, and signposting via a coordinated, multi-channel service • One-to-one structured support to small and medium enterprises, incorporating a diagnostic assessment of business needs and advice and guidance. This Prior Information Notice (PIN) is intended to alert providers to an opportunity to deliver the Growth Hub service for Essex County Council. The estimated launch date for the opportunity is April 2025. Please contact Craig Johnson at craig.johnson@essex.gov.uk to express an interest in the Growth Hub service.
The current projection contains one award release, not a verified chain of planning, tender, award, contract and modification records. Dates are shown in source-field order and are not silently repaired.
A company profile appears only when this release carries a usable company number. Name-only suppliers remain name-only.
No supplier is named in this projection. That does not prove the notice had no supplier in every source version.
Published 12 Feb 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.