Technical analysis or consultancy services

Description

This is a Contract Award Notice. This contract has now been awarded. Please do not respond to this notice. This framework agreement is to provide technical and marketing/commercial due diligence to Scottish Enterprise's R&D grant funding programme called Smart: Scotland. The framework will also be available for use by other Scottish Enterprise teams to carry out relevant, ad-hoc technical due diligence. The additional teams currently include, but are not limited to Scottish Investment Bank (SIB) and the Sustainability team. Smart: Scotland is intended to help SMEs based in Scotland develop products and processes that represent a significant technological advance for the UK or the industry or sector concerned. By offering grant towards the cost of carrying out R&D work, Smart: Scotland will encourage Scotland's businesses to carry out R&D projects that they would not necessarily undertake without this financial assistance. This will act as an incentive for Scotland's businesses to develop new products/processes that will help them, and the Scottish economy as a whole, to become more sustainable, productive and competitive. Please see attached tender documentation for further details.