Published date: 26 November 2019

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: 10 December 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Technical testing, analysis and consultancy services - 71600000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£0 to £5,000

Procurement reference

C4N46933499

Published date

26 November 2019

Closing date

10 December 2019

Contract start date

13 December 2019

Contract end date

31 January 2020

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?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

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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Please respond directly to: consultant-support@imperial.ac.uk
With:
• Name and contact details
• Your fit of expertise (max 500 words)
• Proposed activity (max 500 words)
• Availability
• Price

About the buyer

Contact name

Alistair McDermott

Address

58 Princes Gate
London
SW72PG
England

Telephone

+44(0)2075946565

Email

a.mcdermott@imperial.ac.uk