{"id":47807,"date":"2014-09-22T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=e32b00ca3fc8c1bd6f86662e20973c0a"},"modified":"2014-09-24T08:56:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T08:56:46","slug":"news-story-opportunity-to-deliver-uk-trade-investment-ukti-international-trade-services-to-businesses-in-the-english-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=47807","title":{"rendered":"News story: Opportunity to deliver UK Trade &amp; Investment (UKTI) International Trade Services to businesses in the English Regions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Closing date and link updated<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The contracts awarded will be for 5 years, with the option by UKTI to extend by up to one more year. <\/p>\n<p>UKTI is inviting bids against 9 lots:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lot 1 \u2013 South West <\/li>\n<li>Lot 2 \u2013 South East <\/li>\n<li>Lot 3 \u2013 London <\/li>\n<li>Lot 4 \u2013 East of England<\/li>\n<li>Lot 5 \u2013 East Midlands <\/li>\n<li>Lot 6 \u2013 West Midlands <\/li>\n<li>Lot 7 \u2013 North East <\/li>\n<li>Lot 8 \u2013 North West <\/li>\n<li>Lot 9 \u2013 Yorkshire and Humber <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The contract value is \u00a35,490,000 to \u00a3243,010,000.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for submission of request for information (RFI) responses is 6 October 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Further information can be found on the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/ted.europa.eu\/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:323205-2014:TEXT:EN:HTML&amp;src=0\">TED: tenders electronic daily, reference number 2014\/S 183-323205<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"contact\">Contact<\/h2>\n<p>Alan Bird, Shared Business Services Ltd, North Star House, North Star Avenue, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2 1FF. <\/p>\n<p>Telephone: + 44 (0)1793 817098, Email: <a href=\"mailto:alan.bird@uksbs.co.uk\">alan.bird@uksbs.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UKTI is looking for contractors to provide UKTI trade services and any associated European funded international trade projects in the 9 English regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47897,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47807\/revisions\/47897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}