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I C Consultants Ltd

Better Futures - P011208

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71600000
Value£5k
Deadline10 Dec 2019
Published26 Nov 2019
RegionLondon
Timeline
Published 26 Nov 2019ClosedCloses 10 Dec 2019
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£5ktotal contract value
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The brief

Background: The Better Futures Innovation Vouchers provide funding for SMEs on the Better Future Programme enabling the SMEs to work with an expert from a research entity bringing new knowledge into the company to help businesses innovate, develop and grow.

Typical services offered to SMEs could include: • Ideas for new or improved products, processes and services • Product and service testing • Access to information and expertise on new materials • Tapping into research and scientific expertise The Innovation Vouchers will be up to £5,000 in value and its aim is to promote new collaborations between SMEs and a research entity.

The contracting process is being managed by Imperial Consultants, a subsidiary of Imperial College London.

Imperial Consultants will contract with the individuals or organisations to deliver the innovation vouchers.

For more information: https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/environment/better-futures/about-better-futures This opportunity: Our client is a start-up company whose business is in connecting ethical shoppers to ethical brands, making it easy for conscious consumers to find verified sustainable products.

They are building a new area to their e-commerce platform that will make it even easier for consumers and other businesses to access sustainable products.

They are looking for a back-end developer who is proficient in PHP (Laravel platform), API and python.

Ideally, someone who has experience in digital product design and passionate about sustainability.

The developer will be working with different teams within the company to assess the existing algorithms, work out processes to turn unstructured data to structured data to feed into the platform, provide scalability solutions and prepping the platform towards machine learning.

It is expected that the work will be up to 20 days on a flexible working and drawdown basis.

Responses are sought from individuals from Knowledge Bases, defined under the ERDF Definition of a Research Entity: Higher Education, Further Education and Research Entities which are: UK Public Sector Research Establishments, Research and Development Organisations, Research and Technology Organisations.

Assessment criteria are as follows: • Applicant from a research entity (pass/fail) • The fit of the expertise to solve the company's need, as assessed by Imperial Consultants and the SME. • The proposed solution and the outputs to be provided. • Availability. • Value for money.

As assessed by Imperial Consultants & SME The contracting process is being managed by Imperial Consultants (I C Consultants Ltd), a subsidiary of Imperial College London.

Imperial Consultants will contract with the individuals or organisations to deliver the innovation vouchers.

Please respond directly to: consultant-support@imperial.ac.uk With

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What the supplier must deliver

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Background: The Better Futures Innovation Vouchers provide

Background: The Better Futures Innovation Vouchers provide funding for SMEs on the Better Future Programme enabling the SMEs to work with an expert from a research entity bringing new knowledge into the company to help businesses innovate, develop and grow.

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Imperial Consultants will contract with the individuals

Imperial Consultants will contract with the individuals or organisations to deliver the innovation vouchers.

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Ideally, someone who has experience in digital

Ideally, someone who has experience in digital product design and passionate about sustainability.

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The developer will be working with different

The developer will be working with different teams within the company to assess the existing algorithms, work out processes to turn unstructured data to structured data to feed into the platform, provide scalability solutions and prepping the platform towards machine learning.

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