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Tenders, Bids and Competitions

Welcome to the ITS UK Tenders, Bids and Competitions page. We provide members with two services to support them in taking advantage of commercial opportunities in the market: a tender monitoring service and bid support sessions with two industry experts.

If you have any queries about this service, please email contact@its-uk.org

Tender Monitoring Service 

Please click below to view the current UK and international tender opportunities in each sub-sector. You can click on the right hand column on each PDF to go to the tender page. Please note, international tenders may be in a different language and require translation.

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Funding and Competitions

Travel support for UK businesses to attend European events | Innovate UK
Innovate UK is offering travel support for companies to attend consortia building events in Europe. This includes the Road Transport Research Conference (RTR Conference) from 5-7 February 2024 in Brussels and the Transport Research Arena (TRA) from 15-18 April 2024 in Dublin.

Deadline: Multiple. Apply here

Station Innovation Zone - Innovation Funding Programme - Year 3, Connected Places Catapult
There are two phases of this fund. Phase One: Up to 8 SMEs get £4,000 each to develop trial plans starting November 2024. Phase Two: Three chosen SMEs receive up to £45,000 each for live trials at Bristol Temple Meads over six months.

Deadline: 24 Sept 24. Apply here

Knowledge transfer partnerships (KTP): 2024 to 2025 Round 3 | Innovate UK
Up to £9m to fund innovation projects, with businesses or not-for-profits working alongside academic institutions, RTOs or Catapults.

Deadline: 25 Sep 24. Apply here

Innovation Exchange Challenge: Integrated Energy Management System for Reading Borough Council's Transport Depot | Innovate UK
Reading Council is looking for innovative companies that can provide integrated low-carbon control systems at TRL 5 or above.

Deadline: 7 Oct 24. Apply here

Bespoke AI and Data Science Advice for SMEs  | Innovate UK Bridge AI
The Alan Turing Institute, as part of the Innovate UK BridgeAI programme, is offering bespoke AI and Data Science advice tailored specifically for SMEs

Deadline: 29 Nov 24. Apply here

Space4Rail ESA open call | EU
ESA open call “Space4Rail Downstream Applications in ARTES 4.0” aims to support the exploitation of space-based assets (satellite navigation, satellite communications and/or Earth observation) in rail. Feasbility study funding of max. 500,000 EUR. Demonstration projects will be funded on a case by case assessment. This can cover up to 50% of the project cost for large companies, up to 80% for micro/SMEs, and up to 100% for universities or academic research.

Deadline: 31 Dec 25. Apply here

European Space Agency: Maritime Decarbonisation | ESA
ESA seeks to support development of sustainable space-based services and applications related to maritime decarbonisation.

Deadline: 28 Feb 25. Apply here

Bid Support Tuesdays

On the third Tuesday of every month, ITS UK will be holding an hour and a half sessions for members to drop in and hear from two bidding experts, Phil Seymour of Seymour Surveyors and Pippa Birch of Pipster Solutions.

These sessions are a great opportunity for you to get advice and input from two leading experts, helping you improve and hone your bids, ultimately giving you the best chance of success.

Social Value Webinar | 12 to 12.45pm, 15 October
Increasingly, bids are won or lost on their social value aspects - how your work or organisation contribute to society, sustainability and providing a legacy. In this webinar, Pippa and Phil will talk about how you demonstrate your social value work in your bid.
Register here

Social Value Workshop | 12 to 1pm, 19 November
What is your approach to social value? What are you doing to demonstrate that your organisation is giving back to society? How do you incorporate that into your bids? Join this workshop for a discussion on how you get social value right.
Register here

[NB: There will be no December session, as we provide a break for Christmas]

Please note, all Bid Support Tuesdays are for general sharing of best-practice and we ask that attendees do not share commercially-sensitive information. 

About the Experts

Phil Seymour
Phil Seymour is the principal at an independent RICS chartered surveyor business and is an expert on construction costs. He has extensive experience of transport infrastructure construction and maintenance and works with public & private organisations procuring civil engineering projects. He supports engineers and contractors with commercial advice, supply chain strategies, contractual analysis and pricing for their tenders. Phil is a member of the CICES, RICS, IAT, ITS and CIHT.
 

Pippa Birch
Pippa Birch has been a bid and tender professional for over two decades. Her bid consultancy, Pipster Solutions Ltd, is the only one in the UK specialising in highways and civil engineering. She is APMP Professional certified (bid professional), and an active member of the IAT and CIHT, with many highways-specific awards to her name, including those from the Worshipful Paviors, the IAT’s Certificate of Merit in recognition and appreciation of exceptional services in support of the Institute, and the Shell Bitumen Award for Excellence. Her award-winning business builds long term partnerships with clients, helping them navigate public tenders to ensure they win the contracts needed to grow their businesses. Her team reviews, manages, writes quality submissions, and coordinates bids and tenders, ensuring compliant, high scoring submissions.