OJEU-CR17066INN Evaluation of Innovate UK's Fund activities

Final date and time for the submission of bids is 01/09/2017 at 14:00 DO NOT apply directly to the buyer OJEU http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:299414-2017:TEXT:... This invitation to tender is to conduct phase 1 of an evaluation covering Innovate UK's Fund activity. There will be two cohorts of projects covered by the evaluation.

This first cohort will cover projects awarded funding from April 2016 - March 2017, the first year of the new competition structure. The second cohort will cover projects awarded funding from April 2017 - March 2018.

Given the expected lag from award to impact, this two-phase evaluation is expected to run up until 2023 for the first cohort and 2024 for the second cohort of projects. However, the first phase of this project which forms the focus of this RfP will be over a four year period until July 2022 with a second phase, which will be commissioned separately, completing the evaluation by 2024.

Proposals must set out how this will be achieved. This project will include a process evaluation alongside a full economic evaluation.

The process evaluation will assess the effectiveness of Innovate UK's processes around Fund, while the economic evaluation will robustly measure the outputs, outcomes and impacts of Innovate UK's Fund activities, covering all projects awarded across the sector groups and open competitions. A final report for this first phase of the evaluation will be delivered in 2022, with annual interim reports providing updates between the contract start date and the final report.

Interim reports should present findings as they emerge, starting with processes, inputs, and activities, moving on to outputs, outcomes and impacts. In some years the interim report will be an update on evaluation progress, where new findings have not emerged within that year.

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