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Notice published 19 Sep 2023

Public Contracts Regulations 2015 notice

Boost (5) Programme of Services

Lancashire County Council

Buyer
Lancashire County Council
Latest stage
award
Latest notice
19 Sept 2023
Stated contract period
1 Sept 2023 to 31 Mar 2025
Award period
11 Sept 2023 to 31 Mar 2028
OCID
ocds-b5fd17-e10cb158-0bc4-4a82-bff1-4a7f7a588d3d
Procurement method
open
Official notice ↗

Held original notices: Contracts Finder to 9 November 2026. Find a Tender originals run from 24 February 2025 through 10 November 2026 exclusive, including the L1 gap package from 17 August 2026, with supplementary packages for part of 16 to 23 August 2026. The official notice may have changed. Check Contracts Finder search if it cannot be opened.

Which stages have a stated date?

4 of the six stages have a date on the held notices. A gap means no held notice states that date; it does not mean the stage did not happen.

  1. Planning noticeNo planning notice is held.
  2. Tender noticeNo tender notice is held.
  3. Tender deadline
  4. Award date
  5. Contract start
  6. Contract end

Source: held original Contracts Finder notices a45708f2-4bde-42f8-85d3-41f3bd18340d-681636, read offline: stage notices, tender period, awards and the stated contract period.

What the held notices state

Tender deadline
27 Jul 2023
Process status
Complete
Regime
Not stated on the held notice
Procurement method
Open procedure (above threshold)
Stated reason for the method
Not stated on the held notice
Number of bids
Not stated on the held notice
Above the procurement threshold
Not stated on the held notice
Framework agreement
Not stated on the held notice
Marked suitable for small firms
Yes

Awards

  • Award. Status: Active. Award date: 5 Sept 2023.

    • Growth Lancashire Ltd: Small or medium enterprise
    • Selnet Ltd: Small or medium enterprise
    • The Growth Company Ltd: Large
    • Freshfield PR Ltd: Small or medium enterprise

Suppliers named together on one award are joint. No share is stated.

Lots

Not stated on the held notice: no lot is listed.

Options and renewal

Not stated on the held notice.

Source: held original Contracts Finder notices a45708f2-4bde-42f8-85d3-41f3bd18340d-681636, read offline. Each field shows what the latest held notice stating it says. Not stated means no held notice for this process states it. A size is shown only where the notice states it for that supplier.

Contract period

1 Sept 202331 Mar 2025

The bar is the stated lot or tender contract period. The mark, where it falls inside the period, is the export build date of 10 November 2026. Option and renewal wording is shown above where a held notice states it.

Notice description

"Boost is Lancashire's Business Growth Hub, one of 38 Growth Hubs in the UK. Boost is led by Lancashire County Council (LCC). Since 2013, it has supported over 14,000 businesses, helped create over 3,500 jobs while adding over £100m to the economy. Boost 5 is the renewed programme to deliver services to Lancashire from 1st September 2023. The Progamme will be split into 5 contracts (as detailed within the tender documents). Boost 5 is a partnership with the Local Distrit Councils within Lancashire and Lancashire County Council as the lead partner and commissioner for the funded core services. " Additional information: The contract value is expected to be between £2,875,000 and £9,495,000, which includes flexibility for local district councils to utilise the services and potential for contract extension should additioonal funding be secured. Lancashire County Council is procuring the contracts for itself and on behalf of the partner local districts. The Local District Councils able to utilise these services are: Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Chorley, Fylde, Hyndburn, Pendle, Preston, South Ribble, West Lancashire, Wyre, Blackpool, Lancaster, Ribble Valley and Rossendale.

Contact removal rule: contacts/1.

Separate stated values

Estimate 1

£2,875,000

VAT basis unknown. No amounts are added together or allocated to individual suppliers. This is not a payment.

Award amount 2

£9,495,000

VAT basis unknown. No amounts are added together or allocated to individual suppliers. This is not a payment.

No ceiling or maximum amount is in this export. The official notice is the place to read one.

Held stage events

  1. : award

Dates are the publication dates of the held stage notices. This is not a complete release history. The tender deadline is shown above where a held notice states it.

Suppliers

  • Growth Lancashire Ltd
    Published legal identifier not available
  • Selnet Ltd
    Published legal identifier not available
  • The Growth Company Ltd
    Published legal identifier not available
  • Freshfield PR Ltd
    Published legal identifier not available

These names are joint. No share is stated.

This list gathers every supplier named on any held award. Each award and its suppliers are shown above. Names without an organisation identity remain withheld pending review.

Categories

Sources

2023/09/19.csv.gz
Publisher
Cabinet Office
SHA256
fc2ff6c0e4b6d6c7099522ba990201335c2057d84cfa19ec3787a37c74f6e94b
Licence
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
Retrieved
Original retrieval time not recorded

Coverage and the source register.

What this export cannot show

Award values are not linked to a named supplier, and no ceiling or maximum amount is shown. Those facts stay on the official notice when the notice publishes them. A tender deadline, award dates, supplier sizes, lots, and option or renewal wording appear on contract pages only where a held notice states them. A held process counts as last at tender or planning only when that is the latest stage among the held releases. Where more than one supplier is named, the names are joint and no share is stated.