Future Industries Demonstrator

Tender description

Three cycles of an 8-week programme to enable Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and scaleups to validate their products in the local market through a test bedding exercise with local authorities and SHIFT partners , a group of organisations based at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park that have come together to form a new, inclusive innovation district – a living testbed that will power better urban futures through innovation, creativity, and collaboration. The service provider must demonstrate knowledge of the sub-region, its strategic supply chains, possess a mission-aligned approach to reaching net zero and driving local impact, as well as possessing the technical subject matter expertise to support businesses operating in climate-tech related sectors is required. The service must deliver subject matter expertise on advanced technologies which businesses will benefit from on this programme, creating economic growth and impact to achieve net zero by 2030 in east London. Lot 1: LLDC has carefully considered its requirements to deliver the ‘Future Industries Demonstrator’, which is funded by HM Shared Prosperity Fund and must be delivered by March 2025. Specifically, LLDC have a need to enable Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) who are selected through our open innovation challenge call out to test and prove their products are viable in the local market and suitable for supply chains and/or consumers. Whilst generic business support and business growth support is available widely in the marketplace, this programme requires highly specific expertise to support the development of ‘innovation trial plans’ to enable early-stage innovation products and services to move from early ‘minimum viable product’ to full scale, implementation and technology deployment within supply chains and direct to consumers, specifically in the local market around Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The programme must be delivered at speed to meet the timelines of the funder.