Future Industries Demonstrator

Concepts

• experimental development
• queen elizabeth olympic park
• shift partners
• future industries demonstrator
• local market
• inclusive innovation district
• small and medium enterprises
• technical subject matter expertise
• cycles of an 8-week programme
• medium enterprises

Location

London: LONDON

Description

Three cycles of an 8-week programme to enable Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and scaleups to validate their products in the local market through a test bedding exercise with local authorities and SHIFT partners , a group of organisations based at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park that have come together to form a new, inclusive innovation district – a living testbed that will power better urban futures through innovation, creativity, and collaboration. The service provider must demonstrate knowledge of the sub-region, its strategic supply chains, possess a mission-aligned approach to reaching net zero and driving local impact, as well as possessing the technical subject matter expertise to support businesses operating in climate-tech related sectors is required. The service must deliver subject matter expertise on advanced technologies which businesses will benefit from on this programme, creating economic growth and impact to achieve net zero by 2030 in east London.

Total Quantity or Scope

LLDC has carefully considered its requirements to deliver the ‘Future Industries Demonstrator’, which is funded by HM Shared Prosperity Fund and must be delivered by March 2025. Specifically, LLDC have a need to enable Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) who are selected through our open innovation challenge call out to test and prove their products are viable in the local market and suitable for supply chains and/or consumers. Whilst generic business support and business growth support is available widely in the marketplace, this programme requires highly specific expertise to support the development of ‘innovation trial plans’ to enable early-stage innovation products and services to move from early ‘minimum viable product’ to full scale, implementation and technology deployment within supply chains and direct to consumers, specifically in the local market around Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The programme must be delivered at speed to meet the timelines of the funder.

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 73120000 - Experimental development services

Legal Justification

The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason: •absence of competition for technical reasons •the purpose of the services is experimentation; to enable third party SME experimentation Potential routes to market were considered for the delivery of this service. The recommended route to market chosen (Plexal Product Builder) shall produce a contract between LLDC and Plexal (Group) Limited. The services for the Plexal Product Builder shall be procured under a direct award by Single Source for the following reasons: -Plexal is the only economic operator who can demonstrate a track record in supporting early stage innovation products to gain traction and success through local test bed implementation and has the required knowledge of the sub-region to enable SME’s to safely deploy their technologies through local strategic supply chains and consumers. -Plexal is the only economic operator with the expertise that enables SME’s to validate their product, build protypes, build business cases as well as provide support to forge partnerships to enable the live tests and wider implementation locally.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** To view this notice, please click here: <a href="https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=795253633" target="_blank">https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=795253633 GO Reference: GO-2023713-PRO-23399339