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UK Shared Business Services Ltd as the Contracting Authority is putting in place a contract for Innovate UK. This contract will be for a Two year programme to act as the Delivery Partner for Innovate UK activities helping young businesses in the future cities sector access overseas markets and investment. There is a possibility of a further two year contract extension providing the initial contract runs smoothly. The activities will be known as the Future Cities Missions and comprise of running four Missions (one every 12 months), managing the network of Mission alumni companies including work to track their growth and the impact of the Missions on them. Future Cities Missions are entrepreneur missions taking up to 20 young, innovative UK companies to overseas markets to rapidly build their networks, know-how and ambition as they forge new business. Places on the Missions are competitive and applicants must demonstrate a scalable future cities solution, a strong team. UK Shared Business Services Ltd as the Contracting Authority is putting in place a contract for Innovate UK. This contract will be for a Two year programme to act as the Delivery Partner for Innovate UK activities helping young businesses in the future cities sector access overseas markets and investment. There is a possibility of a further two year contract extension providing the initial contract runs smoothly. The activities will be known as the Future Cities Missions and comprise of running four Missions (one every 12 months), managing the network of Mission alumni companies including work to track their growth and the impact of the Missions on them. Future Cities Missions are entrepreneur missions taking up to 20 young, innovative UK companies to overseas markets to rapidly build their networks, know-how and ambition as they forge new business. Places on the Missions are competitive and applicants must demonstrate a scalable future cities solution, a strong team and a fit with the market in the Mission location. The programme should build and maintain a network comprising Mission alumni companies, promising UK SMEs with the potential to be future Mission companies and Mission stakeholders such as sponsors, advisors, investors and journalists. Future Cities Missions take up to 20 of the UK's best young, innovative, high-growth potential companies to overseas markets to help them grow faster. Missions achieve this by supporting the SMEs to: —Network with potential customer, partners and investors —Improve their Profile through PR coverage —Refine their Pitch to potential investors and to suit the target market —Gain Insight into what it takes to do business in the target market —Raise their Ambition and accelerate their plans This support and experience is hard for young companies to gain. The Missions also open doors that would be closed to a SME alone. The attraction of a competitive group backed by government and private sponsors helps Missions to engage critical partners in the overseas market.