UK SBS PS18081 - Programme Coordination for the NERC Innovation Programme in Oil & Gas

Tender description

(*** This tender requirement was abandoned prior to a Contract award decision. ***) The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), a branch within UK Research and Innovation is seeking a team to support and coordinate the delivery of the Innovation Programme in Oil and Gas (IPOG). Working with, among others, oil and gas companies and their supply chain, policymakers, regulators, and environmental consultancies, the successful bidder will facilitate the transformation of knowledge, data, capabilities and skills of the NERC community into new value-adding approaches, tools and solutions that can be applied in the Oil and Gas sector and, where appropriate, more broadly in the offshore energy domain. NERC partners with business, government, the public and wider research community to shape the environmental research and innovation agenda. Our science provides knowledge, skills and technology that deliver sustainable economic growth and public wellbeing. As an organisation, NERC has a number of flexible mechanisms that support innovation by translating research to address specific business issues, and provide access to relevant scientific knowledge, data and tools. One of these mechanisms is through Innovation Programmes and this is the focus of this tender. Through an Innovation Programme, NERC makes a significant investment (up to £5m over 3-5 years) and works directly with a group of businesses, policymakers, and regulators to address their environmental research needs in a specific topic area where there is a strong shared need for knowledge, which can be met by existing NERC science: in this case, in the oil and gas sector. NERC requires a fully-costed and detailed proposal from a suitably structured team to undertake a programme coordination and support role for the Innovation Programme in Oil and Gas (IPOG). As an industry-academic collaborative programme, the IPOG coordination role will require a demonstrable track record of working with current and prospective industry members and the UK research base. The main objectives for the coordination of the Innovation Programme in Oil and Gas are as follows: - Provide monitoring and support knowledge exchange within funded projects to ensure a coherent cohort of projects for the Programme, engagement with project partners, and capturing of impact stories, case studies and figures for the Programme; - Provide networking, dissemination and brokerage function for the Programme and its members to ensure good connections across the oil and gas and ORE sector as well as science disciplines; - General coordination of the governance mechanisms including industry members, NERC and academic community to ensure efficient working of the Programme; - Engage in and contribute to relevant strategy discussions within the Programme Executive Team for the Programme; and - Provide timely, accurate and detailed reporting material for the Programme to monitor progress.