Published date: 14 August 2019
Last edited date: 14 August 2019
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Contract summary
Industry
Financial consultancy services - 66171000
Legal advisory and information services - 79140000
Auditing services - 79212000
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
More information
Links
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- https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/Account/Login
- Tender notice
- University of Hull e-tendering Portal
About the buyer
Contact name
Adam Jacklin
Address
University of Hull, Cottingham Road
, ,
Hull
HU6 7RX
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone
01482 463263
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Closing: 16 September 2019