Published date: 6 November 2017

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 22 November 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£23,000

Procurement reference

CAPLTFC001-DN307316-90990646

Published date

6 November 2017

Closing date

22 November 2017

Contract start date

29 November 2017

Contract end date

28 February 2018

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes


Description

The Catapult is undertaking an exercise to appoint a suitable, capable and experienced provider of governance and business model development services to work on our Hyper Connected Cities project. The Future Cities Catapult has a requirement for professional services to help develop new legal, financial and governance policy tools and instruments required to support market creation in cities for use cases enabled by the deployment of new connectivity infrastructure (e.g. LPWAN, 5G) and data and other digital technologies.
The focus in terms of market creation for this work in the development, deployment, and management of large scale city based demonstration and test bed projects. These are projects where use cases are deployed into cities combining digital and physical infrastructure into new forms. The mode of delivery is often through large scale research collaborations between the public and private sector focused on a particular place. The use cases under consideration will fall under the following themes with examples in:
• Advanced Urban and City Services
• Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
• Smart Logistics
• Mobile Media and Cloud
• Healthcare
• Smart Utility Systems
• Rail
Through this procurement, we are seeking consultancy services for the following activities:
• Mobilise leading research and commercial expertise and knowledge their policy area to co-develop a new set of legal, financial tools and policy instruments as part of the expert panel process.
• Bring detailed examples of best practices to the process to assist in the formulation of new tools and instruments and ensure lessons are learned.
• Utilise their networks to pull through research and evidence to address issues and risks that emerge through the expert panel process.
• Respond in verbal and written formats to proposals for new tools and instruments and forward plans for their implementation.
• Provide advocacy for the process and support promoting the outputs of the panel to stakeholder groups and in policy and investor forums.
• Deliver specific outputs set out for each panel member set out in the outputs section.
• Participate in industry engagement and validation events.


More information

Additional text

To express interest in the requirement and download the ITT please visit www.fccprocurement.org.uk. New suppliers will be required to register. The reference for this opportunity is DN307316


About the buyer

Contact name

Davinder Sarai

Address

1 Sekforde Street
London
EC1R 0BE
United Kingdom

Email

davinder.sarai@westhillcommercial.co.uk

Website

https://futurecities.catapult.org.uk