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UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED

UK SBS FWRECR17074BEIS - SIA Wave 3

R&DCPV 73200000 79300000
Value£267k
Awarded24 Jul 2017
Published3 Oct 2017
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£267ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£561k

This is a large award for Research & Development — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 20,405 valued Research & Development tenders in our corpus.

The brief

1.

BEIS has regularly assessed the overall impact of its science and research investments and the performance of the UK research base, publishing reports on the international competitiveness of the UK research base.

The latest of these was published in 2013 .

2.

The Government have invited consortia to undertake analysis at a local level in the form of Science and Innovation Audits (SIAs) .

Through these SIAs, consortia are mapping local research and innovation strengths and infrastructure, providing new innovative ways to identify and build on areas of greatest potential across the UK.

The summary reports from the first wave are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/science-and-innovation-audits-first-wave-reports 3.

This specification is to continue to supply rigorous analytical support to the Wave 3 consortia as they develop their SIAs.

Drawing on the expertise and analytical support of the contractor, the consortia will use local level data or local subsets of national data to identify strengths and potential areas of strategic focus for their areas.

As well as mapping future growth potential, the SIAs will examine the current mechanisms through which investment in science and innovation in their area leads to local productivity, international trade and investment, and growth, and any barriers to this growth being realised.

This will be done by linking the following: • Excellence in science and research highlighting areas of world leading strengths • Strengths in innovation activity • Science and innovation assets including institutes and facilities • Local industrial strengths and capacity especially in nascent industries and emerging disruptive technologies • Local strengths in international trade and attracting international investment • The ability to work collaboratively across the science and innovation landscape • Level of engagement with and by the business community • Coherence with other existing or planned local or national activity to support research and innovation including the development of local infrastructure • The comparative strengths on which to build future innovation, growth and prosperity

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

This specification is to continue to supply

This specification is to continue to supply rigorous analytical support to the Wave 3 consortia as they develop their SIAs.

02

Drawing on the expertise and analytical support

Drawing on the expertise and analytical support of the contractor, the consortia will use local level data or local subsets of national data to identify strengths and potential areas of strategic focus for their areas.

03

• Coherence with other existing or planned

• Coherence with other existing or planned local or national activity to support research and innovation including the development of local infrastructure.

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