How to win: SME Accelerator Programme

About this contract

Staffordshire County Council (SCC), via the Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire Growth Hub (SSGH), is seeking to procure a specialist delivery partner(s) to design and deliver a high-intensity SME Accelerator Programme supporting established businesses to achieve sustainable growth. The contract will deliver a two-year pilot programme focused on strengthening business readiness, improving productivity, and accelerating scale-up activity, including a key theme of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption to support growth.

How to win contracts like this

• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Staffordshire County Council scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £150,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: it closes 3 August 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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