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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.
| Supplier | Identifier | Award Value | Lots Won | Cross-References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colin Barr Associates Ltd | SC307295 | ~£560,000 estimated from lot values | 4 lots Lean Manufacturing · Six Sigma · Quality · Process Mapping/VSM | - |
| Improvement Architecture Ltd | SC412948 | ~£80,000 estimated from lot values | 1 lot Strategic Supply Chain Development | - |
| Lighthouse Business Consultants Ltd | 04797190 | ~£200,000 estimated from lot values | 1 lot Six Sigma | - |
| Pragmatique Ltd | SC247475 | ~£360,000 estimated from lot values | 3 lots Lean Manufacturing · Quality · Process Mapping/VSM | - |
| Viable Ventures Ltd | SC314189 | ~£80,000 estimated from lot values | 1 lot Manufacturing Engineering Support | - |
| Waterstons | 03818424 | ~£80,000 estimated from lot values | 1 lot ERP/MRP | - |
This procurement was divided into 7 lots, each awarded separately. 62 bids were received in total.
| Lot | Value | Bids Received | Awarded To | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lot 1 Lean Manufacturing 1,440 days (≈3.9 yrs) | £160,000 | 13 | Colin Barr Associates Ltd Pragmatique Ltd | complete |
| Lot 2 Six Sigma 1,440 days (≈3.9 yrs) | £200,000 £20,000 initial term | 8 | Colin Barr Associates Ltd Lighthouse Business Consultants Ltd | complete |
| Lot 3 Quality 1,440 days (≈3.9 yrs) | £80,000 | 9 | Colin Barr Associates Ltd Pragmatique Ltd | complete |
| Lot 4 Process Mapping/VSM 1,440 days (≈3.9 yrs) | £120,000 | 10 | Colin Barr Associates Ltd Pragmatique Ltd | complete |
| Lot 5 Manufacturing Engineering Support 1,440 days (≈3.9 yrs) | £80,000 | 8 | Viable Ventures Ltd | complete |
| Lot 6 Strategic Supply Chain Development 1,440 days (≈3.9 yrs) | £80,000 | 8 | Improvement Architecture Ltd | complete |
| Lot 7 ERP/MRP 1,440 days (≈3.9 yrs) | £80,000 | 6 | Waterstons | complete |
Government spending data: These suppliers have received £206,706 in 5 payments (over £25k) from NHS England, Department for Transport (2014-03-13 to 2024-02-29).
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We have updated the number of days anticipated for each lot and have therefore extended the deadline.
Bringing section IV.2.7) "Conditions for opening of tenders" date in line with the revised tender deadline date
Deadline extended to allow bidders time to account for Information Security revision in ITT
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