Published date: 16 February 2023

This notice was replaced on 22 February 2023

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Opportunity (published 22 February 2023)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Business and management consultancy services - 79410000

Location of contract

Any region, London

Value of contract

£0 to £160,000

Procurement reference

MT228726

Published date

16 February 2023

Closing date

1 March 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

3 April 2023

Contract end date

2 April 2027

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Digital Catapult is seeking to appoint a number of experienced suppliers to contribute to the growth of Digital Catapult's R&D programme and portfolio in the UK through managing the end to end process of applying for R&D public grant funding, from consortium building, scoping, bid writing, budgeting all the way through to contract (consortium agreement, Grant Funding agreement, Grant offer letters and other forms of agreement), negotiation and signature.
Provision of bid writing and management training to the internal team at Digital Catapult is also within scope of the services.
It is expected that Digital Catapult will need assistance with at least 5 grant or tender submissions and/or contractual negotiations for the submitted work per year as required according to available public funding and tender competitions. In addition the contractors will support the contracting of Design Smarter Programme (with various funders) as well as potentially supporting the Full Business case for AHRC CoSTAR competition.
It is desirable that the appointed suppliers have proven track record of developing proposals and securing funding in the areas of Manufacturing, Supply Chains, Digital Twins and Future Networks/ Telecommunications.
Supplier(s) must be a company, partnership or other body corporate (including Bid Writers' professional services company or engaged umbrella company).
Bid Writers are not individually eligible to be appointed to the Framework (e.g. sole traders).
One Supplier may submit if they wish more than one and up to 3 Bid Writers for consideration, with each Bid Writer being individually evaluated.
Each Bid Writer will be limited to undertaking a maximum equivalent of eight days of work per month, as averaged across a three-month rolling period.
Due to the nature of the services required, it is expected that the appointed Supplier/s will provide
most of their services virtually (online) and attending meetings when required at the Digital Catapult office in London. Suppliers might also be required to travel to other sites inside the United Kingdom on occasion around Digital Catapult's regional activities.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Snezhana Kostadinova

Address

101 Euston Road
London
NW1 2RA
England

Telephone

+44 2038823557

Email

procurement@digicatapult.org.uk

Website

www.digicatapult.org.uk