CS22366 Healthy Ageing Catalyst Award Follow on Fund

Concepts

• industrial strategy challenge fund
• swindon
• management consultancy
• healthy ageing challenge
• healthy ageing catalyst award follow
• funding package of support
• bespoke follow
• healthy ageing
• award holders
• purpose of a follow-on funding grant award

Location

South West England:

Description

The Healthy Ageing (HA) Challenge is one of over 20 programmes under the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. The HA Challenge is a £98 million investment that aims to enable businesses, including social enterprises, to develop and deliver products and services that will be adopted at scale which support people as they age. The Healthy Ageing Challenge is seeking a bespoke Follow on Funding package of support for up to 10 projects drawn from two rounds of Healthy Ageing Catalyst Award holders. This package will include a bespoke 6 month programme of support for the award holders and a further ESRC grant to the award holders of up to £100,000 for a duration of 6 months to support their further development. UK SBS is managing this procurement process in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as may be amended from time to time) (the “Regulations”).

Total Quantity or Scope

The Healthy Ageing (HA) Challenge is one of over 20 programmes under the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. The HA Challenge is a £98 million investment that aims to enable businesses, including social enterprises, to develop and deliver products and services that will be adopted at scale which support people as they age. The Healthy Ageing Challenge is seeking a bespoke Follow on Funding package of support for up to 10 projects drawn from two rounds of Healthy Ageing Catalyst Award holders. This package will include a bespoke 6 month programme of support for the award holders and a further ESRC grant to the award holders of up to £100,000 for a duration of 6 months to support their further development. The scope of the support requirement is as follows, with operational requirements applying unless stated otherwise: o A bespoke package of support (mandatory) to be made available to the current UKRI Healthy Ageing Catalyst Award holders, for the purpose of a follow-on funding grant award and associated programme of support. o Delivery of a framework for selection of the (up to 10) Catalyst Follow-on Fund awards (mandatory). Potential awardees will all receive application support from the selected supplier at the pre-award stage, and a further programme of support will operate during the period of grant funding, for the selected group of up to 10 award holders. Please ensure you review all attached information to ensure a full understanding of this requirement. All attachments can be found with the Supplier Attachments tab within the Jaggaer eSourcing Portal. This contract will be awarded based on the evaluation criteria as set out in the RFP document. How to Apply UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) will be using the Jaggaer eSourcing Portal for this procurement. To register on the Jaggaer eSourcing portal please use the link https://beisgroup.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/ and follow the instructions to register as a supplier. If you are already registered on the Jaggaer eSourcing Portal and wish to participate in this procurement, please use the link: https://beisgroup.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/. Once you are logged into the system you will be able to locate the Procurement you wish to leave a bid on by clicking the ITTs Open to All Suppliers and searching for the reference number CS22366

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 79410000 - Business and management consultancy services
• 73000000 - Research and development services and related consultancy services
• 73200000 - Research and development consultancy services
• 80531200 - Technical training services

Indicators

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

Other Information

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