Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2019-09-06
Buyer: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 72224000: Project management consultancy services | 79000000 | 79400000 | 79410000 | 79411100
Estimated value: 1300000 GBP

Technical requirements: Innovate UK (UKRI) is seeking to secure a partner to establish and deliver a Community of Practice (CoP) which supports the Healthy Ageing Challenge participants through an environment of peer support and active learning.
The Healthy Ageing Challenge is a 98 000 000 GBP investment to enable businesses, including social enterprises, to develop and deliver products, services and business models that will be adopted at scale which support people as they age. This will allow people to remain active, productive, independent and socially connected across generations for as long as possible.
The CoP will be responsible for sharing learnings between challenge participant organisations, identifying and overcoming common barriers, enabling collaboration between organisations and supporting the challenge in scaling and spreading ideas and good practice from the challenge to a wider interested audience.
Innovate UK (UKRI) is seeking to secure a partner to establish and deliver a Community of practice (CoP) which supports the healthy ageing challenge participants through an environment of peer support and active learning.
The healthy ageing challenge is a 98 000 000 GBP investment to enable businesses, including social enterprises, to develop and deliver products, services and business models that will be adopted at scale which support people as they age. This will allow people to remain active, productive, independent and socially connected across generations for as long as possible.
The CoP will be responsible for sharing learnings between challenge participant organisations, identifying and overcoming common barriers, enabling collaboration between organisations and supporting the challenge in scaling and spreading ideas and good practice from the challenge to a wider interested audience.
— accelerate the pace of proposition development by identifying and overcoming common barriers and through the sharing of lessons learned,
— generate insights that enable the spread of ideas, products, services and processes to other sectors and audiences,
— support the challenge in identifying what is most effective in contributing to healthy ageing, by making appropriate links from the emerging findings of trailblazers with a wider evidence base within the research community and across the other challenge activities, and to
— enable the creation of new collaborations and partnerships where there is the potential to increase the collective impact of a set of complementary activities.
In order to deliver on these objectives, the community will need to be robustly co-designed with its members and ensure that it embeds best practice principles for effective active learning networks, ensuring that the community of practice is (for information — not yet finalised):
— accessible: allowing access to any individual who has a need to share and learn with the group regardless of their location or role,
— flexible: adapting the focus and delivery approach of the community as projects mature and the needs of members change,
— honest: enabling an open environment where members are comfortable to share lessons from threats and challenges, as well as from successes, and
— regular: delivering a regular programme of activities to ensure engagement with the community is maintained throughout the lifecycle of the challenge.


Award value: 1300000