The Mayor’s Innovation Challenge

Concepts

• leeds
• business services
• west yorkshire combined authority
• mayoral combined authority
• regional innovation framework
• innovation challenge competition
• innovation
• challenge
• mayor’s innovation challenge
• west yorkshire

Location

West Yorkshire:

Description

The West Yorkshire Combined Authority is implementing its regional Innovation Framework which outlines a priority to drive forward a mission-led approach to innovation. As part of this priority, the Mayoral Combined Authority is seeking to appoint an experienced provider or consortia to design, develop and deliver an innovation challenge competition across West Yorkshire. This should provide SMEs, entrepreneurs and/or start-ups with a real-world, West Yorkshire based challenge or problem and the task of developing a new product, service, or technology designed to address that problem through a programme of specifically targeted support, coaching and mentoring. The selected winners of the competition will receive additional funding to develop their solutions and / or business ideas further

CPV Codes

• 79000000 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
• 80000000 - Education and training services
• 85000000 - Health and social work services
• 98000000 - Other community, social and personal services

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** In order to provide further information and to answer questions relating to this opportunity we would like to invite potential participants to a supplier engagement session on the 28th April 2023 via Microsoft Teams (anticipated 10.30am – 12noon). Please contact: lauren.robinson@westyorks-ca.gov.uk to express an interest in attendance. Your request to participate should include as a minimum – - Full Organisation name and address - Company registration number (where applicable) - Contact details of the participant/s including Name, Position/Job Title, Email address and contact telephone number. Please note: a maximum of 2 participants per organisations will be permissible. It is likely that the engagement session will be followed by an opportunity to complete a questionnaire to provide feedback on the proposed procurement Please note this PIN is for prior information only and is not a call for competition. Any subsequent tender documentation in connection to this opportunity will go live on our e- tendering system, YorTender, in due course (https://yortender.eu-supply.com). Suppliers are advised to register on the above tender platform in anticipation of our tender opportunity.