Published date: 3 June 2015

This notice was replaced on 3 June 2015

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

Awarded contract (published 26 March 2018)

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.


Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

  • Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security - 79000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£500,000

Procurement reference

RE140228GOS

Published date

3 June 2015

Closing date

17 June 2015

Contract start date

1 July 2015

Contract end date

2 December 2019

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?

No

Description

http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:174245-2015:TEXT:EN:HTML
Please see link to above TED notice for details.
The Newton Fund aims to promote the economic development and welfare of partner countries through strengthening their science and innovation capacity.
It will do so by leveraging the UK's strength in this area to, amongst other things create higher-education partnerships, fund research into development topics and identify and take forward commercialisation and innovation opportunities that address local development issues in 15 developing countries. 75 000 000 GBP per year for five years will support these capacity building activities by 15 UK Delivery Partners: the Research Councils, Academies, British Council, Met Office and Innovate UK. It is managed by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).
Tenderers are invited to propose and develop methodologies that will capture the Newton Fund's on-going impact and delivery processes over five years. While drawing on monitoring data from Delivery Partners, BIS and Newton Fund country teams, successful applicants will conduct their own qualitative and quantitative data collection. The evaluation should also consider the delivery mechanisms and management processes of the Newton Fund.
One final report is expected in 2019, with several interim reports throughout the life of the Fund. These will include a brief analysis in August 2015, and an analysis at the end of year two of the programme in March 2016. Each report should address the Fund's summative and formative impacts to date, its value for money, its delivery processes along with recommendations to improve the programme.

More information

Additional text

http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:174245-2015:TEXT:EN:HTML
Please see above link to TED notice for details

About the buyer

Address

UK SBS, North Star House, North Star Avenue
Swindon
SN2 1FF
England

Email

Research@uksbs.co.uk