Administrative services for business operations

Tender description

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is seeking to appoint a contractor for our Incubation Support Services to the department's Energy Innovation Programme. The overarching requirement for this work is the provision of an integrated incubation support service to projects within the BEIS Energy Innovation Programme. Provision of incubation support has been an integral part of past Energy Entrepreneurs Fund (EEF) and has been key to maximising value for money to Government by supporting grant recipients in the deployment of their innovative technologies on a commercial scale. We wish to procure a similar service for the BEIS 2016-2021 Energy Innovation Programme. Lot 1: 1.1 Review and update, if necessary, the existing assessment framework for incubation services. This is the methodology and framework in which companies' incubation needs are assessed and an incubation plan is developed for each project. 1.2 Delivery of assessments of individual companies, who receive a grant under EEF Round 5 and any subsequent rounds over the next 5 years, for their incubation needs and preparation of the incubation plan. 1.3 Incubation plan: from the assessment, the identification of tasks to be carried out e.g. commercial, intellectual property, technology transfer advice, and written into a plan which is seen and agreed by the project and DECC. Lot 2: 2.1 Coordination of incubation support services for all EEF projects and between suppliers of services. A service which checks that incubation support is being delivered to the companies as per the incubation plan; performs QA of the outputs and reports back to DECC on progress/issues via a monthly meeting with DECC. Keeps a written log of each task performed for each company from the incubation coordinator, along with time so that finance can be tracked and signed off by DECC. Lot 3: 3.1 Delivery of incubation support tasks: specialist providers who will deliver the identified tasks in the incubation plans.