Official UK procurement notice
The Mayor’s Innovation Challenge
Authority: West Yorkshire Combined Authority (Local council)
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. Published lot titles: Lot 1 - The Mayor’s Innovation Prize for Young People; Lot 2 - The Mayor’s Innovation Challenge; Lot 3 - The Mayor’s Transformational Innovation Challenge.
What is being bought3 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionThe 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: Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security · Education and training services · Health and social work services · Other community, social and personal services
Lots and requirements (3)Procurement structure
3 lots · all with a published value (£2,000,000 together)Lot #1The Mayor’s Innovation Prize for Young PeopleRenewalPublished value£350,000
To deliver a maximum of two innovation challenges to a maximum of 30 individuals or teams of individuals per cohort, aged 16-26 with a quantifiable starting TRL of 1-3 for each innovation idea.
Lot #2The Mayor’s Innovation ChallengeRenewalPublished value£500,000
To deliver a maximum of three innovation challenges to bring together the innovative ideas of individuals with commercially successful, regionally based SMEs to capitalise on these ideas and progress their development. A quantifiable TRL starting level of 2-5 is required for each innovation idea.
Lot #3The Mayor’s Transformational Innovation ChallengeRenewalPublished value£1,150,000
To deliver one innovation challenge to a maximum of 20 SME beneficiaries for a minimum 12-month duration to develop and commercialise innovation proof of concepts generated by regional SMEs with a starting TRL of 3-5.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 30 Mar 2023, 18:24 BST
- Last source update
- 30 Jan 2024, 11:49 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 29 Feb 2024 – …
- Authority reference
72923- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-003038- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03b784Find a Tender
Publisher note: 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: [email protected] 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.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 29 Feb 2024, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 180 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 29 Feb 2024, 12:00 GMT
Timeline
12 Jun 2023 → 29 Feb 2024 · 4 dates- Next notice expected12 Jun 2023, 00:00 BST
- Notice published30 Jan 2024, 11:49 GMT
- Submission deadline29 Feb 2024, 12:00 GMT
- Bids opened29 Feb 2024, 12:00 GMT
Notice history
4 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 30 Jan 2024- Published value updated to £2,000,00030 Jan 2024, 11:49 GMTwas £2,100,000
- Status changed to active30 Jan 2024, 11:49 GMT
- Procurement method changed30 Jan 2024, 11:49 GMT
- Deadline published: 29 Feb 2024, 12:00 GMT30 Jan 2024, 11:49 GMT
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High Court of England and WalesReview body
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria