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Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service (SMAS) Consultancy Framework

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Deadline
Expired
March 12, 2021
Contract Details
Category
Open Procedure
Reference
005876-2021
Value
£620,000
Location
United Kingdom
Published
April 13, 2026
Organization
Scottish Enterprise
CPV Code
Project Timeline

Tender Published

March 23, 2021

Deadline for Questions

March 05, 2021

Submission Deadline

March 12, 2021

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Budget
£620,000
Duration
Not specified
Location
United Kingdom
Type
Open Procedure

Original Tender Description

Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service (SMAS) are a nationally delivered programme across Scottish Enterprise (SE), Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and South of Scotland Enterprise (SOSE) whose purpose is to offer advice, best practice business diagnostics and practical productivity implementation support via Business Improvement Projects. 3rd Party support has historically been offered via procured frameworks to provide additional capacity and capability across a variety of business improvement topics. SMAS helps deliver a high-profile programme that helps manufacturing business across Scotland improve their competitiveness. This programme has an excellent market reputation and SE are keen to continue delivery in a sector that is important to exports and economic growth. This consultancy framework will be used to appoint consultants to deliver Operational Management, Lean consultancy and Six Sigma expertise to supplement and enhance the offering to manufacturing businesses from SMAS Scottish Enterprise are seeking to put in place a multi-lot, multi-supplier framework to deliver productivity support to the Scottish Manufacturing Community and wish to appoint associates to 7 different lots to deliver support for the next three years, with an anticipated start of November 2020, with the option to extend for up to 1 further year.

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