DIT Services

The Department for International Trade (DIT) has the objective of creating a UK that leads the way on achieving fair global trading, drives economic growth and improves the living standards in the country and around the world. We will deliver that through attracting and retaining inward investment, promoting exports and delivering new trade deals. Our vision for Investment is to transform DIT into one of the world’s most capable and respected investment promotion agencies, best placed to deliver high-value inward investment in support of the Government’s economic ambitions including innovation, net zero and levelling up. We will achieve this through optimising our support to high-value, high impact investors, whilst growing effective and efficient services across all investor categories. We will deliver this vision through our talented and diverse teams across the UK, including our Trade and Investment Hubs, and in 108 countries around the world. The department, including the Office for Investment, will work in lockstep with colleagues from across HM Governments departments, local government, the Devolved Administrations, businesses, civil society and partners around the world. DIT is seeking a strategic partner to help us improve our ability to target and support high-value investment, and to supplement what we know from our interactions with businesses with external intelligence, to inform policy making on enhancing the attractiveness of the UK investment environment. This will involve delivering business intelligence, training, research, analysis and broader support to client-facing teams to increase their impact with investors. This will require expertise, innovation, operational excellence and a commitment from the provider to deliver in the national interest. The successful bidder will help DIT maintain its position as one of the world’s preeminent investment promotion organisations. They will provide support that will increase the credibility and impact of our investor interactions—and help us secure higher levels of inward investment benefiting all regions and nations of the UK. This Prior Information Notice is being issued solely for the purposes of conducting market engagement and it is not a Contract Notice or a commitment to buy. Following pre-market engagement to test our initial hypotheses for developing our service offer to investors in summer 2021, we have iterated proposals and included further details on the proposed activities that the supplier will be expected to deliver. We aim to work alongside the provider to deliver comprehensive, holistic support that Government is uniquely best placed to provide.