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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

Supply Chain Demonstrator | BridgeAI Innovate UK
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2 million in grant funding to deliver AI demonstrator projects. These projects are intended to benefit efficiency in supply chains and increase firm level productivity.

Deadline: 21 Aug 24. Apply here

Innovation Loans Future Economy: Round 16 | Innovate UK
UK registered businesses can apply for loans for innovative projects with strong commercial potential to significantly improve the UK economy.

Deadline: 28 Aug 24. Apply here

Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence scheme 2024 | Royal Society
This scheme aims to increase the knowledge and awareness in UK universities of cutting edge industrial science, research and innovation.

Deadline: 18 Sep 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: Feasibility Study on Safe Urban Navigation for People in Vulnerable Situations | Innovate UK
Cadent are looking for innovators that can develop tools that extract information about forthcoming and live obstacles to journeys, so that pedestrians with needs, such as vision or mobility restrictions, planning journeys can be both forewarned of the obstacle and offered an alternative safer route. 

Deadline: 1 Aug 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.

Getting Your Sums Right Webinar | 12 to 12.45pm, 16 July
No matter how good your bid is, if your sums don't add up, you'll be at a strong disadvantage. Pippa and Phil will present on their approach to pricing, how you avoid pitfalls and how you can provide a fair, but competitive bid.
Register here

[NB: There will be no August session, as we provide a break for the summer]

Getting Your Sums Right Workshop | 12 to 1pm, 17 September
What are the hurdles you face when it comes to pricing? In this interactive workshop, we want to hear from you about the challenges you face. Feel free to bring examples and thoughts on what you do.
Register here

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.