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Hinkley Supply Chain Business Support Tender Open

July Update – now closed

The Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership is advertising a contract opportunity for the Hinkley Point C Supply Chain – deadline midday17 July. An interim business support service is required to continue to build the capability of South West Businesses to access supply chain opportunities arising from the construction phase.

The successful supplier is required to provide and broker targeted business growth and readiness support so that businesses located within the HotSW LEP area are better placed to take advantage of HPC contracts with EDFE and its industrial partners.

The full tender application is available at this link, and the deadline is 18 July.

Hinkley Point Supply Chain activity has been identified as a priority within the LEP’s Strategic Economic Plan and European Structural Investment Funds Strategy, with the   intention that there will be an ESIF call for a longer term programme of support across the whole of the LEP area and potentially wider.

This procurement is to cover the short-term gap in provision, with the intention that a longer term activity will be commissioned via the ERDF open call process for 2016 and beyond.

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      David Ralph

      Chief Executive

      David Ralph started as Chief Executive of Heart of South West LEP at the beginning of June 2018. Previously, he had spent 5 years as CEO of the Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire (D2N2) LEP from 2013 where he oversaw the development of the D2N2 Strategic Economic Plan and sector strategies, 3 Growth Deals with HM Government to deliver a £1billion capital investment programme, securing and implementing £200m ESIF programme, the Derby and Nottingham Enterprise Zone, the D2N2 Skills Deal and Time for Innovation programme, community fund and led the executive team to develop the HS2 East Midlands hub. He was also closely involved in the proposed North Midlands Devolution Deal and one of the key architects in establishing the Midlands Engine, chairing the officer steering group. Whilst in this role David was a NED of the Nottingham Enterprise Zone, and Marketing NG, the Outer Estates Foundation and a Governor of Nottingham College and on the advisory Board of Nottingham Business School.

      Before the East Midlands, David was CEO of the Have Gateway Partnership working closely with local stakeholders including the ports of Felixstowe, Harwich and Ipswich and BT Adadastral Park across Suffolk and Essex and prior to that was Chief Exec of the Barton Hill New Deal for Communities programme in Bristol and the Nelm Development Trust in Norwich.

      David is a keen sailor, walker and trail runner.