Published date: 14 August 2019

Last edited date: 14 August 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: 16 September 2019

Contract summary

Industry

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Location of contract

HU6 7RX

Value of contract

£320,000

Procurement reference

504e7e9f-1f26-4f29-a002-d45532a967b9

Published date

14 August 2019

Closing date

16 September 2019

Contract start date

2 December 2019

Contract end date

31 December 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

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

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes


Description

SparkFund is a business support and grant programme which is available to Small & Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) located in either the Humber or York & North Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) areas. The total value of the programme is £15.1m and it is in receipt of £8.4m of ERDF grant funding.

SparkFund is the brand name for a programme made up of three discreet strands of support, these are:

Innovation Vouchers: to enable beneficiary SMEs to secure specialist innovation support (up to £17,500 maximum grant value). Such support will encourage and stimulate demand from SMEs to engage in innovation activity and access the expertise on offer from the knowledge base. It will help build the innovation capacity of SMEs by supporting proof of market and technical feasibility studies, early stage proof of concept and prototyping work as well as intellectual property protection.

Grants for Research & Development: to enable beneficiary SMEs to secure specialist innovation support (up to £44,300 maximum grant value). Such support will encourage and stimulate demand from SMEs to engage in innovation activity and access the expertise on offer from the knowledge base. It will help build the innovation capacity of SMEs by supporting proof of market and technical feasibility studies, early stage proof of concept and prototyping work as well as intellectual property protection.

Low Carbon Grants for Research & Development: to enable beneficiary SMEs to secure specialist innovation support (up to £42,250 maximum grant value). This activity will encourage and stimulate demand from SMEs to engage in low carbon innovation activity and access the expertise on offer from the knowledge base. It will help build the innovation capacity of SMEs by supporting proof of market and technical feasibility studies, early stage proof of concept and prototyping work as well as intellectual property protection.

We are seeking responses to this tender which provide costs for short term interventions with SparkFund Beneficiary SMEs in units of whole days on a pro-rata basis. Services will be called off in whole or part days, specifically quarter and half days, and will relate to specific needs of businesses as defined within the mini-competitions

Details can be found here: https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/Account/Login


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About the buyer

Contact name

Adam Jacklin

Address

University of Hull, Cottingham Road
, ,
Hull
HU6 7RX
UNITED KINGDOM

Telephone

01482 463263

Email

a.g.jacklin@hull.ac.uk