Pre-Market Engagement for Economic Markets Foresight Analysis (North East England)

The Supplier Briefing will take place with the North East LEP's Innovation Team on Monday 5th October, 10:00-13:00 GMT via Zoom. Registration is via Eventbrite using this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/economic-markets-foresight... The deadline for registrations is 08:00 on Friday 2nd October 2020.

The North East Local Enterprise Partnership (North East LEP) and its partners support the region's business community to boost our competitiveness, manage the impact of the pandemic and plan for economic recovery. Our work is guided by the North East Strategic Economic Plan, which sets out our ambition to create more and better jobs.

To complement and run alongside the North East Strategic Economic Plan, we want to delve deeper into the how global drivers of change and future trends will dominate the UK and global economies and to examine how the region can prosper from economic activity in the associated developing, nascent or new markets. What are the drivers and areas of industry that will provide the greatest economic growth opportunities in the future?

Which are most relevant to the North East's innovation and other capabilities? And how can the North East capitalise on future opportunity by supplying into the value chains of the cross-sector economic markets and industries that are at the forefront of global transformation?

The North East LEP wishes to appoint an appropriately qualified and specialist supplier to undertake an independent Economic Markets Foresight Analysis (the Project) on behalf of the North East. We want to identify the short, medium and long-term opportunities our region should focus on to support our immediate economic recovery, and those that will help grow our economy in the future too; creating jobs for local people, attracting investment in the region, and improving our economic activity rates and productivity.

The supplier briefing is being held to: o Engage with the supplier market to assist the North East Local Enterprise Partnership (North East LEP) to form the specification for the project; o Discuss openly the outcomes needed by the North East LEP with suppliers working in the field of economic foresight; and o Stimulate innovation in the design and delivery of the project. The deadline for registrations is 08:00 on Friday 2nd October 2020.

All interested suppliers will be notified with further details of the briefing session along with the Zoom invitation by 16:00 on Friday 2nd October 2020. The supplier briefing is limited to 40 registrations to ensure a good engagement opportunity for all.

The supplier briefing will be recorded (audio) for transparency and openness. A copy of the supplier briefing and a written record of Q&A will be circulated toby all suppliers who registered for the supplier briefing session by 18:00 on Wednesday 7th October. For further details regarding this requirement, please contact Rebecca Furness, Programme Support Officer in the North East LEP's Innovation Team, rebecca.furness@nelep.co.uk