Provision of Services to Manage the delivery,financial reporting and monitoring of the D2 Business Development Programme

The D2 Business Development Programme has been developed to promote entrepreneurship in local people and support them to start a business through workshops and one-to-one advice free of charge to all residents of Derby and Derbyshire but with a focus on more deprived areas. The area consistently has a lower than average level of entrepreneurship and self-employment and this programme will help to address this.

The aim of the project is to support, as a minimum, the creation of 120 enterprises with 300 potential entrepreneurs being assisted to be enterprise ready. The service required is the full delivery of all project activity including financial reporting and monitoring.

Additional information: This tender is being managed electronically. Please go to www.sourcederbyshire.co.uk and look for the contract advert under ‘latest or Live Contracts Opportunities section, select the relevant contract notice.

Select the ‘apply online' link in the bottom right hand corner of the contract notice this will transfer you to the Councils e-tendering system https://www.eastmidstenders.org where you can express interest and obtain the documents, (please note we will only accept expressions of interest through the East MidsTenders e-tendering system, the deadline for expressions of interest is 15:00 on 23.2.2016). To access the tender documentation and to be able to submit your response,you must first register your organisation on EastMids Tenders (unless you have done this previously).

On the opportunities portal home page there is an option to ‘Register’ link in the top right hand corner of the screen,click this to begin the registration process, which is step by step where you need to enter your details and your own companies details. Further information can be found in the userguide ‘how to do business on the portal' which can be found in the 'Help' section at the top right of the homepage.

Once you have received the 2 system generated emails confirming your user name and password you can search for new opportunities from the supplier home page by: clicking on the 'Search Latest Opportunities’ button located within the ‘Latest Opportunities’ section. This will then open the Opportunities Search screen.

Organisation: this field allows the organisation you are searching on to be chosen. Click the arrow to bring a drop down menu displaying the various organisations.

Select ‘Derby City Council’. Category: Leave this field blank.

Contains: Leave this field blank. All Opportunities: Leave this field blank.

Once the search has been set up, then click on the search button to return the results. This will then return all the opportunities that are applicable.

To view the further details of the opportunity, click the corresponding contract title and click on the Login and Register Interest button and login to the East MidsTenders system to complete the tender process. The East Mids Tenders system is a very secure site and is simple to use.