Life Sciences and Technology Pathfinder Accelerator 2021-2024

A Modification Notice
by HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS ENTERPRISE

Source: OJEU
Type: Contract (Services)
Duration: 3 year
Value: £508K-£675K

Sector: BUSINESS
Published: 01 Mar 2023
Delivery: To 28 Feb 2026 (est.)
Deadline: n/a

Concepts

Location

Inverness

Geochart for 2 buyers and 1 suppliers

2 buyers

Highlands & Islands Enterprise Inverness

1 supplier

Skillfluence Glasgow

Description

The Pathfinder Accelerator is a business support programme focused on driving the growth of science, health and technology businesses. Using industry knowledge, the Pathfinder will help business teams to make the right decisions at the critical stages. Pathfinder participants will be recruited from the local business and social enterprise community, HIE’s network of innovative projects, from an active research and development base within the NHS and from academic partners. This project will enable an agile and sustainable Pathfinder programme to become an established and mainstream contributor to the stimulation of business growth in the Highland Council area.

Ammendments to Previous Notice

2. Contract value

GBP 507,965 674,965

Award Detail

1	Skillfluence (Glasgow) Life Sciences and Technology Pathfinder Accelerator 2021-2024 Reference: fts001 Value: £507,965 Contractor is an SME.

CPV Codes

79400000 - Business and management consultancy and related services
80521000 - Training programme services
72224000 - Project management consultancy services
79411100 - Business development consultancy services

Indicators

Contract modified due to additional needs.

Legal Justification

HIE considers this modification to be covered by Regulation 72(1)b of The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. HIE have an existing service that delivers Pathfinder to a group of Pathfinder participants and alumni. The additional Pathfinder participants funded through this project must be part of this group and cannot operate as a standalone/separate grouping. The purpose of Pathfinder is to create a network and community of entrepreneurs, so only one joint grouping provides the desired outcome. In addition, HIE would incur duplicate time and costs because in effect we would run and manage an additional parallel programme with identical content and delivery format, and pay for duplicated project management, delivery costs for coached group sessions, participant communications, reporting and monitoring. The increase in price does not exceed 50% of the initial contract value.