Supply Chain Specialist procurement opportunity

TSCN is currently looking to procure an individual / organisation to identify and work with businesses within the more developed area of our region concentrating on the York area of the York, North Yorkshire LEP (as shown in Appendix 4 covering York, Selby, Harrogate and Craven) by offering direct business support on a one to one basis to help them increase their customer base and maximise opportunities to quote for and/or apply for relevant tenders.

As a representative of The Supply Chain Network the work will involve: • Identifying businesses for support within the designated region and working with the TSCN team to confirm eligibility • Responding to direct referrals from the TSCN team for businesses with specific supply chain requirements • Directly working with said businesses to ensure clear understanding of individual business needs to win more customers/work and enable effective action plans to be developed • Continuing to directly work with businesses to help them meet identified needs • Communicating continually ensuring clear discussions and actions are recorded in agreement with the company/project • Continually liaising with TSCN team to feed in the requirements and for ongoing additional support for the company • Capturing all actions and meetings onto the TSCN paperwork to the required standards • Providing ongoing business intelligence to TSCN as themes and information is identified • Liaising, supporting and working with project team advisers as required Contracted Targets: • Identifying a minimum of 40 new businesses for enrolment onto the programme with identification of specific needs/requirements as above • Working directly with a minimum of 20 businesses on a programme of one to one support offering direct supply chain knowledge and expertise • Contributing to the projects outputs by identifying outcomes of the support offered through jobs and/or new products/services created • The contract awarded is envisaged to be for 9 months in line with the TSCN project end date

Milestones 1. Tender advertised Monday 23rd May 2022 2. Final submission of queries and questions regarding tender Noon Wednesday 1st June 2022 3. Closing date for submissions Noon Monday 6th June 2022 4. Scoring of submissions w/c 6th June 2022 5. Notification to successful applicants Monday 13th June 2022 6. Inception meetings and agreement of approach June 2022 7. Delivery of contract Between July 2022 - April 2023

Questions about the specification should be directed to Josh Elliott-Shircore via email Josh.shircore@eastriding.gov.uk by Noon Wednesday the 1st June 2022 If you are interested in this opportunity responses should be sent to Josh Elliot-Shircore via email Josh.shircore@eastriding.gov.uk by Noon Monday the 6th June 2022