Safety Tech Challenge Fund

Concepts

• safety tech challenge fund
• administration services
• administration of the safety tech challenge fund
• fund sponsors
• uk safety tech firms
• challenging safety tech firms
• outcome of the challenge
• fund administration
• challenges
• challenge

Location

United Kingdom: UNITED KINGDOM

Description

Managed Service requirement for design and administration of the Safety Tech Challenge Fund. A competition challenging UK Safety Tech firms to develop innovative technological solutions addressing the challenges faced by the move by online platforms to end-to-end encrypted environments. The service required will fall into 3 distinct phases: 1) Design and Preparation of the competition; 2) Launch and Application and 3) Development and Assessment.

Total Quantity or Scope

DCMS requires an external supplier to deliver the Safety Tech Challenge Fund, a competition challenging safety tech firms to develop innovative technological solutions to address online abuse. The Supplier will be required to lead on the delivery of the competition, including designing and administering successive phases in line with the direction and timeframe specified by HMG, including the delivery, monitoring and assurance of grant funding to selected companies. The challenge should be launched and invite applications by August/September 2021, and be open until 31 March 2022. Throughout these phases, the Supplier will: ● be required to lead on the design, delivery and administration of the competition, including allocation of grant prizes; ● provide publicity and communications for the competition, working with relevant Departmental Press Offices. The Supplier will not: ● Make final decisions regarding the choice of firms to be awarded grants or prizes, except through the sift of applications at the assessment phase. The Fund sponsors (DCMS, Home Office, GCHQ) have decision-making authority in this regard The outcome of the challenge will be the development of technological solutions with the potential to create lasting impact by improving the capability of companies to detect harmful and illegal content and behaviour, while respecting user privacy. In doing this, the challenge will also aim to create an environment for the forging of partnerships and the exchange of expertise between safety tech innovators and those who use their products. Additional information: Receipt of tenders MUST be no later than 12:00 noon (GMT) on 28 June 2021 The Department may extend the contract for a further one year in tree month increments The estimated budget value of £650,000 is split into (1) Fund Administration of £225,000 maximum and (2) Prize fund pool of £425,000 minimum.

CPV Codes

• 75100000 - Administration services

Indicators

• This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
• Renewals are not available.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement. Receipt of tenders MUST be no later than 12:00 noon (GMT) on 28th June 2021. The Department reserves the right to extend the contract for a further 3 months and the estimated value of the contract value provided within the contract notice includes any possible contract extension. The estimated budget value for these requirements is £650,000. This budget covers: ●the administrative cost of running, promoting and evaluating the fund, and supporting the fund participants (this must be no more than £225,000); ●the pool of prize funding, to be divided between five recipient companies (the prize fund pool must be no less than £425,000, which would provide £85,000 funding to each company). For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London:-Administration-services./9... To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/99YW3M2MS2 GO Reference: GO-2021528-PRO-18316197