Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge Evaluation

Tender description

**This notice is not a Call for Competition** UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Operating across the whole of the UK with a combined annual budget of more than £7 billion, UK Research and Innovation brings together the seven Research Councils, Innovate UK and Research England. Background to the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund The Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund is part of the greatest single increase in UK science and innovation funding for over 40 years. With around £3 billion of public money, plus industry co-investment, it represents a total of more than £5 billion additional spending on research and development in the UK. UK Research and Innovation leads the delivery of the fund. UKRI and the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) is committed to collecting evidence to understand the impacts and effectiveness of the ISCF Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge. Bids are invited for producing a process evaluation report, an interim progress report and an impact evaluation report which, combined, will assess the inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes and impacts against the Programme's approved Business Case and Delivery Plan. The ISCF aims to improve the performance of our whole science and innovation system and is essential to realise the R&D ambitions of the UK. The industry-led approach of the ISCF will facilitate and accelerate the commercialisation of new technologies, increase productivity, create new export opportunities, and enable Challenge business models to flourish. It will enhance and capitalise on our world-class research base, supporting businesses to apply cutting-edge research in new, commercialised applications in global markets of the future. UK Research and Innovation (Innovate UK) is planning to launch a tender to commission an impact evaluation of the Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge. The scope of the evaluation overall is to assess the extent to which the Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge is on track to make, or has made impacts, taking into account its original aims, and the outcome and benefits. The Challenge requires evaluation specialists with specific expertise in the industrial decarbonisation/energy field and research evaluation to produce a robust process evaluation, interim evaluation and impact evaluation Further detail about the requirement is provided in the attachment to this notice