Patent and copyright consultancy services

Tender description

Swansea University has recently secured funding from the Welsh European Funding Office and the Welsh Government’s Department for Health and Social Services in order to build portfolios of intellectual property and commercialisation opportunities across the Welsh NHS, at Swansea University and beyond. The program, AgorIP, will run until 31.12.2020. To appoint a specialist market report (Life Sciences) Provider who will work with the project manager and university staff in the provision of specialist market reports for life sciences opportunities. Swansea University has recently secured funding from the Welsh European Funding Office and the Welsh Government’s Department for Health and Social Services in order to build portfolios of intellectual property and commercialisation opportunities across the Welsh NHS, at Swansea University and beyond. The program, AgorIP, will run until 31.12.2020. To appoint a specialist market report (life sciences) provider who will work with the project manager and university staff in the provision of specialist market reports for life sciences opportunities. Having identified life science intellectual property opportunities, AgorIP will seek to evaluate the commercial potential of individual projects. Specialist support services will be required in order to evaluate the market opportunity for each project, together with prospective routes to market and potential industrial partners for propelling the projects towards commercialisation. In all cases, applicants will need to be required to work closely with inventors, academics and clinicians as well as University administrative staff. Credit will be given to those applicants that can clearly demonstrate prior successful outcomes from similar assignments. Such outcomes will need to directly attributable to the applicant and the role of the applicant clearly set out in their application. The University intends to commence the contract for a period of 40 months with an estimated contract value of 225 000 GBP over the period. The university will reserve the right to procure services from other organisations where, for example, we believe unique specialist skills are required, where they are mandated by funders of university research or where we perceive a potential conflict of interest.