DARE TO SOLVE:
HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
INNOVATION CONTEST
CONTEST
GUIDANCE FOR APPLICANTS
October 2016
Contents
Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................. 3
How to use this document ...................................................................................................................... 3
1. Contest information ........................................................................................................................ 3
2. How to apply for this contest ........................................................................................................ 10
3. Stage 1 – Video upload onto _connect and supporting application form .................................... 12
4. Stage 2 – Final Panel Pitching Sessions ......................................................................................... 17
5. How to find out more (Data Protection Act 1998, Information Security, etc) .............................. 18
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Executive Summary
The Dare to Solve: Health and Social Care Innovation Contest is offering two businesses the
opportunity to develop and trial new innovations which use digital technology and data to improve
how public health and social care services are planned, delivered and experienced by citizens.
Through addressing one of the contest’s two challenges, themed around encouraging health and
wellbeing in adults and increasing care and support for families and children, successful companies
will have the opportunity to trial their proposed solution with the contest’s leading challenge
partner, Staffordshire County Council, to accelerate development of their technologies.
We want to see solutions with potential appeal to a wide commercial market. Successful applicants
will be expected to trial their proposed solutions with the contest partner for at least 3 months.
The contest consists of a two-stage competitive procurement process leading to the trial of
innovative solutions. The first stage is an application form and the second stage is a pitching session.
The Dare to Solve: Health and Social Care Innovation Contest is running as part of a Staffordshirebased Innovate UK-funded project, and in partnership with the Digital KILN, a new Staffordshire
University-led programme working with large companies, small businesses, public sector
organisations, entrepreneurs and citizens to develop and deploy new digital technologies.
How to use this document
This document contains the challenge description, eligibility criteria, key dates, contest process,
application form details specific to Stage 1 of this contest and details specific to Stage 2 pitch
sessions. It is essential for applicants to read this document in full before applying.
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Contest information
Contest
Dare to Solve: Health and Social Care Innovation Contest 2016
Trial Funding
Challenge One: Using Data to Better Support Families is accompanied by £30,000 funding available
for a successful project that addresses the challenge described in detail below.
Requirements, eligibility and rules
To be eligible for this contest you must;
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Be a company based in the UK or EU.
Propose a solution which responds to the challenge.
Propose a solution that is creatively, technically or commercially innovative within the
context of the challenge environment.
Propose a solution that has wider market potential beyond the challenge partnership.
Have a clear idea of the revenue-earning potential and target market of your proposed
solution.
Applicants can submit multiple applications to address the challenge, however we will only
trial one solution from a single company.
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The solutions must be ready for trials as per the published deadlines; failure to meet the
published deadlines may result in reduced or no payment for the trial.
Early stage and pre-startups are welcome to apply, but you will need to be company before
you start the trial. Students and Researchers at Universities would be expected to develop
the solution and trial it through an independent commercial organization, separate from
their University.
All applications will be assessed on individual merit in accordance with the Tenshi Dare to
Solve assessment process.
Contest scope
We are looking for innovative solutions to address the challenge of how digital innovation can help
improve how public services are planned, delivered and experienced by citizens.
The Challenges
Challenge One: Empowering health and wellbeing self-management in adults
Partner: Staffordshire County Council
To enable adults over 40 to independently assess and understand their health risks and encourage
positive lifestyle actions such as physical activity, healthy eating and timely self-referral to their GP
The digital revolution has the potential to transform healthcare delivery, improve outcomes and
experiences for patients and carers, as well as empower people to manage their health more
independently.
The timing is critical because the UK is facing a crisis in providing ample quality healthcare for its
growing number of patients. The UK’s already stretched resources are set to be spread thinner still as
the proportion of adults over 65, who statistically need more health services and support, is
projected to increase from 17% (2010) to 23% by 2035.
With all citizens increasingly expecting more transparent, efficient and responsive public services,
health providers are looking to digital technologies to help manage this increasing demand, catch
preventable diseases sooner, enable people to access services more easily and empower more
independent, resilient citizens.
Tasked with a mandate to encourage and resident’s health, local councils invest in programmes of
preventative health services, including the NHS Health Check, a mid-life MOT provided for free via
GPs and pharmacies to eligible adults aged 40-74. It aims to identify people at risk of developing
preventable illness including heart disease, stroke, diabetes and kidney disease so they can take
action to avoid or delay ill-health.
Within this national programme, Councils are responsible for commissioning the risk assessment
element and monitoring the number of invitations and uptake. With nearly 200,000 eligible adults
yet to participate in the NHS Health Check, Staffordshire County Council is exploring ways to help
citizens to more easily and independently assess and understand their risk factors. Those with higher
risk factors should be encouraged to take appropriate action by seeing their doctor sooner, and
those with lower risk factors should be enabled to manage their health and wellbeing independently.
The growing adoption and ubiquity of digital technology across all age groups, including smart
phones, wearables and quantified-self health tools, combined with the increased availability and use
of data, is opening up opportunities for innovation in how health services. Preventative programmes
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can be tailored and delivered, treatments can be customised to be right for each individual and
people empowered to take greater ownership of their health and wellbeing. It is through harnessing
these digital technologies that health service providers will be able to manage and meet the rising
demand for health services.
This challenge, set in partnership with Staffordshire County Council, seeks innovative digital solutions
to empower healthy adults (those without a known pre-existing conditions) over 40 years of age to
increase control and management of their own health and wellbeing, maintain healthy habits and
lifestyles and access preventative services, such as the NHS Health Check, in non-traditional ways.
Solution requirements:
- Enable healthy adults over 40 to increase understanding and independence in assessing their
health (such as risk of cardiovascular disease) and take action to proactively reduce their risk
through making positive lifestyle changes and self-referral to their GP
- Encourage users to practice and complete a digital / online heart health self-assessment
- Protect user anonymity while also measuring the solution’s reach within the region
- Measure uptake of positive lifestyle actions, for example, physical activity, health eating and
for those with higher risk factors, GP self-referral.
Possible approaches:
- Develop novel ways to capture, combine and augment data from personal health
management technology, such as wearables, quantified self tools, apps and social media,
with traditional personal health data sources
- Enable adults to independently conduct a personal mid-life MOT and share results with their
GP
- Preventative apps to detect risk of and mitigate developing heart disease, stroke, type 2
diabetes, kidney disease and dementia
- Exploit gamification methodologies to encourage and maintain healthy habits and lifestyles
- Drive participation in existing and new digital health resources, local or online services
available to citizens to encourage knowledge, support networks and self-empowerment
Not of interest:
- There already a number of useful free online self-assessment surveys available, for example
the NHS Heart Age Check, NHS One You and JBS3 Cardio Vascular Risk Assessment. This
challenge is not seeking to reinvent survey questions or methodology, but to drive behaviour
change to encourage citizens to fulfil the checks online, make recommend positive lifestyle
changes and where necessary self-refer to their GP.
Winning applicants will work with trial partner Staffordshire County Council throughout the
Staffordshire Region.
Challenge Two: Using Data to Better Support Families
Partners: Staffordshire County Council, Newcastle under Lyme Borough Council, Staffordshire Police,
and the Kings School (Partners of ‘Building Resilient Families and Communities in Staffordshire’)
To demonstrate how multi-agency data can be used to go beyond traditional public sector support
to improve care for families and children
Across the UK, collaborative partnerships of health, education and social care organisations are
increasing efficacy and improving services for citizens through sharing and combining agency data.
One such initiative, England’s Troubled Families Programme, has been using data matching to
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improve agencies’ decision making abilities, provide more targeted interventions, and help identify
and better assist struggling families which meet the indicators to qualify for the programme’s
support.
However, the data shared by agencies could be further utilised to benefit more families and children
who meet some but not enough of the programme’s criteria to qualify for formal public sector
support. Non-qualifying families may still meet some indicators, such as parental unemployment,
long-term illness, school absenteeism or antisocial behaviours, which suggest they could benefit from
earlier support. Though these characteristics are not grave enough to warrant immediate formal
interventions, they can still prevent these families from reaching their potential. There is also the
likelihood that these few or minor challenges could grow to larger, more serious social problems
later down the line.
This challenge, set by the Staffordshire County Council and its partners of the ‘Families Strategic
Partnership’, seeks new ways to safely combine, visualise and communicate shared multi-agency
data to anticipate and direct at risk families and children to early mitigation support to overcome
emerging challenges they might face. This will help families find solutions to challenges before they
reach crisis point, increase participation in preventative services rather than necessitate reactive
interventions, and over time, reduce demand on public services and associated costs.
In addition to helping families to live happier lives and communities to thrive, applying these
measures could help the reduce the £9 billion a year spent by the public purse on statutory
interventions and reduce the number of crisis point costs which average £139k per family.
The successful solution will:
- Utilise new and existing shared multi-agency data on families’ demographics, needs,
perceptions and preferences to facilitate a response that prevents issues from emerging or
as a means of early intervention
- Generate data and insights for agencies which can be integrated with the already existing
datasets used in decision support
- Promote positive social behaviour such as being healthy and fit, school attendance,
community participation and reducing anti-social behaviours
- Maximize participation, accessibility and sustained use through engaging and seamless userexperiences and interface design
- Provide secure access to information across multi-platform apps or tools
- Take into account information governance requirements and protect families’ privacy and
the confidential data that may be generated
Applicants may also wish to consider:
- Empowering citizens with information about relevant available universal, local and virtual
community support resources and assets
- Enabling social action among citizens, such as connecting with and learning from other
families
- Identifying current positive social characteristics and behaviours, giving the user
opportunities to build on these and develop new strengths
- Engaging citizens in co-production of solutions to challenges
The successful applicant will receive £30,000 trial funding to develop and trial their solution with the
Families Transformation Programme in Staffordshire for a minimum of three months, before being
commercialised more widely. This includes access to 25 data sets representing the multi-agency data,
detailed above, as well as access to expertise.
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About Staffordshire County Council
Staffordshire County Council will support the research work with applied research. Staffordshire is a
large rural county in the West Midlands covering over one thousand square miles, with a population
of 860,000.
The County Council and its partners, including national government, spend over £7.5bn of public
money in Staffordshire every year. They have a duty to make sure this money is spent as wisely and
effectively as possible; whilst ensuring the economy can grow, providing a safe place to work and live
and to maintain and improve the condition of physical assets.
The authority is seeking to work with residents, voluntary groups, partners and the private sector to
find new and different ways to improve lives through building stronger communities. Our approach is
about providing the connections and creating the right conditions for Staffordshire people to flourish
and prosper, without state interference.
About Building Resilient Families and Communities in Staffordshire
The Building Resilient Families and Communities in Staffordshire is Staffordshire County Council’s
response to the Department for Communities and Local Government's troubled families work
stream. It focused on new ways of working with the 120,000 most troubled families in the UK by
2015.
We want families in Staffordshire to be safe, healthy, self-reliant, educated, responsible and
informed. To achieve this we need to build resilience and raise aspirations within families and
communities. We need to support families to develop the skills and resources to cope with current
and future challenges. At the same time we need to ensure that they can access the right help, at the
right time and in the right place.
For more details, please visit: https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/community/community/BuildingResilient-Families-and-Communities.aspx
About Newcastle under Lyme Borough Council
The Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme is a local government district with borough status in
Staffordshire, England.
It is named after its main settlement, Newcastle-under-Lyme, where the council is based, but
includes the town of Kidsgrove, the villages of Silverdale and Keele, and the rural area surrounding
Audley. Most of the borough is part of The Potteries Urban Area
About Staffordshire Police
Our Vision: We'll work even more closely with partners to deliver excellent policing services for the
county's residents, businesses and visitors. At all times, we'll strive to keep them safe, prevent them
from becoming victims and reduce their fear of crime and anti-social behaviour.
Staffordshire Police's mission is: Keeping our communities safe and reassured.
Our Strategic Objectives: Day-in, day-out, when we are making operational and organisation
decisions to keep people safe and reassured, our three strategic objectives will shape our thinking
and approach.
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 Preventing crime and disorder
 Providing outstanding service
 Dealing with what matters to communities
Our Approach: Our values and leadership principles set out 'how' we are going to deliver our
objectives.
The strategy and plan is underpinned by the force's core values of: Honesty, impartiality, fairness
and respect in all we do.
About the Kings School
Our Aims: “To provide an outstanding learning and personal development experience within the
context of the Christian ethos of the school for all our students and staff, being an organisation in
which the parents and the wider community rightly have full confidence.”
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Outstanding learning: students experience the highest quality learning to help develop them
into well rounded citizens.
Outstanding curriculum: we provide a curriculum for our students which is motivating, engaging
and which meets their specific needs.
Outstanding support: we encourage every child to be an individual and we personalise their
learning and support.
Our achievement: the results achieved by our students exceed local and national expectations at
all levels.
Our staff: we employ the best team of staff to deliver maximum success for students and
recognise the need to constantly develop and retain the best possible staff within the school.
Our community: we listen to and respond to the needs of our community so that a first choice
service is available to all and people locally value us as a central focus for the development of
their community.
About the Staffordshire Connected Roadworks Project
The Staffordshire Connected Roadworks Project is an Innovate UK-funded initiative that aims to
reduce the impact of roadworks in Staffordshire. Together Amey, Staffordshire County Council, CSC,
Elgin, Staffordshire University, Future Cities Catapult and Tenshi are developing a Smart City Platform
to enable a more joined up way of planning and carrying out roadworks. The 18-month project will
design, prototype, develop and trial a new spatial planning tool to streamline works on the highway
by combining maintenance programmes from Staffordshire Highways, utility providers and
telecommunications companies. The main aim of the project is to promote new ways of working to
reduce the cost of delivery of core city services, reduce the impact on the environment and the local
economy as well as reducing disruption, and inconvenience to the citizen.
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Contest briefing event
There will be two optional briefing events for this contest:
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Thursday 24 November, 10am-12:30pm, at the Collision Space, 5th Floor Mellor Building,
Staffordshire University, College Road, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 2DE.
Friday 25 November 2016, 10am-12:30pm, at the Future Cities Catapult, 1 Sekforde St,
London, EC1R 0BE.
The briefing events are optional, although you are strongly advised to attend as key aspects of the
contest criteria and entry requirements will be presented and discussed during the session. This is an
opportunity for you to get answers to your questions. To book a place on this event, click on the
following link, which will take you to the event registration: Stoke-on-Trent or London.
Contest key dates for your calendar
If you are intending to submit an application to this contest, please make a note of the key dates
below.
The deadlines below are absolute and final. Please note that the submission deadline is 12.00 noon
and we are unable to accept any applications after this time.
Timeline summary
Contest opens
Contest briefing
Wednesday 26 October 2016
Thursday 24 November – Stoke-onTrent
Application submission deadline
Applicants informed and successful finalists invited to the
Final Pitch Session
Practice Pitch Sessions
Final Pitch Session
Partner trials launched
Friday 25 November - London
Noon Wednesday December 21
End of business Monday 9 January
2017
Tuesday-Thursday January 17-19
2017
Thursday 26 January 2017
Spring 2017
Important Note:
Please do not leave your submission to the last minute.
If any technical difficulties arise or if you identify any errors in your submission, we will not be able to
grant an extension to the above deadlines.
It is your responsibility to ensure you follow the contest guidance rules and in doing so allow
sufficient time to complete all of the contest requirements described in this document.
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Contest process
This contest will follow a two-stage process:
Innovation Contest application process
Stage 1
Application and video
submission
Assessment
Stage 2
Final pitch
Review and Panel
2.
Upload application and video
to F6S contest portal
All applications and twominute videos are assessed
and the three top ranking
projects applications are
invited to pitch at the Final
Panel session.
The final step of the contest
consists of a final panel
presentation and assessment
pitching session. Please note
that these sessions are held in
public.
The panel of judges will review
the results and select the
winner.
How to apply for this contest
Step 1: Register
To enter this contest, the lead applicant must register via the F6S contest portal.
You will need to create a profile on the F6S platform and complete the Dare to Solve: Health and
Social Care Innovation Contest 2016 application from.
You will be required to enter details about your company and answer some questions on your
project details. You will also be required to submit high-level costs on your project before submitting
your application.
Please note: application by any other means including paper or via email will not be accepted.
Multiple project applications
If you wish to apply for funding for more than one project, you can submit multiple applications but
you must give your proposals individual titles.
Please note: any repeat applications submitted for the same project will be ineligible and not
assessed.
Applicants can submit multiple applications, however we will only award one solution from a single
company.
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Step 2: Complete and Submit
Online application form
For this stage of the process, you will need complete and submit the online application form. Please
see section 3 for details on the application form.
You will receive an automated email from F6S to confirm your application has been successfully
submitted.
Step 3: Notification Received
Once the application deadline is reached, all submissions will be allocated to assessors for review
following Tenshi’s Dare to Solve Process.
Each application will be reviewed against the same set of criteria. Results of the assessment process
will be consolidated and ranked. A review panel will discuss the applications and identify the
successful applicants to invite to Stage 2.
Please note: all panel documents and ranking sheets are confidential and will not be made available
to anyone other than the Staffordshire Connected Roadworks Programme Board.
You will be notified by email on the date stated in the contest timeline as to whether your project
has been successful and you may proceed to Stage 2 of the contest – the final pitch session.
Unsuccessful applicants will be notified by email on the date stated in the contest timeline.
Feedback
Unfortunately, we are not able to provide individual feedback to unsuccessful applicants. However, if
you indicate approval through your application form, we will enable the challenge partners to
contact you directly to follow up specific opportunities they may have for your solution outside of
this challenge.
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3.
Stage 1 – Upload application and video onto F6S
This section provides guidance on how to complete the application form relating to Stage One of this
contest process and guidance on how to upload your video.
Each question is detailed below with instructions on how to respond. The form provides plain text
boxes for you to enter your response. The response length is limited to a specific number of characters
and only basic formatting can be applied.
Once you have registered on F6S you will be able to start your application.
To start your application you must define a name for your project.
Your application on F6S will automatically save as you go. To exit and later return to an application
prior to submitting it, simply exit the application. You can return to an application by clicking on “My
applications” on the Dare to Solve: Health and Social Care Innovation Contest page on F6S.
The table below provides guidance on the fields to complete in your web application to accompany
your video.
Please note: Your organisation name, the public description, the two-minute video and the cost of
your proposal may be made public. Applicants are reminded that the Stage Two of final pitching
panel sessions are held in public.
Application Details
Field
Guidance
1. YOUR DETAILS
Nothing in the “Your Details” section of the application
will influence the assessment of your application.
This should be a short, easily recognisable name for your
proposed solution, which we can use to refer to it. We will
use this name when referring to your solution publically
during the pitching event if it is chosen to go through to
Stage Two of the contest.
Project title
Contact details
Organisation
Country
Company status
Please note: If you are submitting multiple applications,
please use a different application title for each proposal.
Enter the full name, job title, e-mail address and
telephone number of the main point of contact between
the Staffordshire Heineken Programme and the project.
Enter the organisation name. You will need to provide
the address for your organisation. Please enter the URL
for your website and Twitter name for your organisation
if available.
Select from the drop-down menu which country in which
your business or organisation is incorporated. If you select
‘Outside EU’ your application will not be considered.
Select the length of time your business or organisation
has been established from the drop-down list. Note that
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Number of employees
the formation of a company will be required should
funding be awarded.
Select the size of your business or organisation from the
drop-down list.
Please select the appropriate option to let us know how
you heard about us.
How did you hear about this
opportunity?
2. YOUR PROPOSED APPLICATION
The answers you submit in the following sections will be used to assess your application in
conjunction with your two-minute video.
Challenge Category
Select the challenge category in which you would like to
submit your application.
Do you, or the company you are
representing, have any prior or existing
commercial relationships with
Staffordshire County Council? If yes,
please give details.
Public description
If your solution applies to more than one challenge, pick
the dominant one. The same technology solution will
only be selected to progress as a finalist in one challenge
category.
Provide a detailed summary of how you previously have
been, or are currently, professionally engaged with the
challenge partner.
Ensure you fully detail any commercial interest the
challenge partners may have in your company, or any
commercial activities you may currently be - or have
previously been - involved in with any of them.
Provide a short summary of what your digital application
or service is, which we will use to describe your proposal
and publish if success in Stage 1.
Provision of this summary is mandatory but will not be
reviewed. Please ensure it is suitable for public disclosure
and does not include any sensitive Intellectual Property.
We reserve the right to amend the description before
publication if necessary, but will consult you about any
changes.
Describe (a) your proposed solution
and how it meets the respective
challenge, and (b) what is technically,
commercially or creatively innovative
about it?
Please note that we may elect to use part of this text on
our Twitter feed or in other marketing.
This section should cover the following and you should
explain why your solution will differentiate from any
existing applications/solutions:
(a) outline key features of your digital application or
service. You should provide an overview explaining details
such as:
 what it does
 how it addresses the specific contest challenge as
stated
 main features/components
(b) Explain what is technically, commercially or creatively
innovative about your proposal. Please focus on what you
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believe to be the most original and innovative aspects to
your application/service as well as the key unique selling
points, which you believe will differentiate your proposal
from existing applications/services.
Please note: Please use this question to enhance your
submission and provide a complementary overview of
your proposed solution but please do not simply repeat
the same information as your video submission.
VIDEO
Video submission
This section is where you can upload your two-minute
video. The video should provide the assessors with a
two-minute summary of your proposition.
Please use this video to enhance your submission and
provide a complementary overview of your proposed
solution.
Please Note:
 Please do not repeat the same information in
your written application. We will use the video
with the application to gain a fuller
understanding of your proposal
 Video entries can include a mix of pitching to
camera, animations and example footage of the
application, product or service, and should
clearly highlight how your idea meets the
challenge brief.
 The production quality of the video will not form
part of the assessment eg. webcams or
smartphone videos are fine.
Video Upload:
You may upload your video at any time prior to the
application deadline but please ensure that you have
submitted it well in time for the application deadline.
The video should be no longer than two minutes in
length. Videos larger than two minutes will take
considerably longer to upload and covert to our file
format. Assessors will be instructed to view no more
than two minutes of any video uploaded.
Video format should be one of the following types:
YouTube or Vimeo
3. PROJECT PLAN AND COST
Please tell us how you would best Select the most relevant description of your proposed
describe the current status of your solution from the drop-down list.
proposed solution.
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 a great idea: i.e. the solution has NOT been
fully scoped yet and nothing has yet been
built
 fully scoped but not yet built: i.e. the
solution HAS been fully scoped yet but
nothing has yet been built
 fully scoped and partly built: i.e. the
solution has been fully scoped and has been
partly built but it requires additional
features/applications
 Existing product i.e. the solution has been
fully built but requires additional
features/applications to tailor to this
challenge environment.
Please let us know the costs (excluding You should consider all costs associated with both
VAT) for your proposed solution. Please building and trialling your solution with the challenge
be aware of funding limits for the partner.
challenge.
The amount you receive may be made public.
Each challenge has a maximum claim amount you can
charge for the delivery of the working solution and the
trial period:
 For the challenge, Using Data to Better Support
Families, the the claim amount limit is £30,000,
excluding VAT
 For the challenge, Empowering Health and
Wellbeing Self-Management in Adults, there is
no trial funding provided
You do not have to charge the maximum, and value for
money is one of the assessment criteria.
State (a) what you intend to build,
including any relevant technical details,
and (b) how the funding will be used to
develop your solution, detailing the
project costs
The project costs can be higher than the amount of the
award, but you cannot claim for more than the limit
stated above.
You should include a brief breakdown of the costs of the
overall project and any costs, which may be incurred
during the trial period.
(a) Please describe the main areas of work necessary
and any relevant aspects regarding your technical
approach to the project to make your
proposal ready for a trial with the challenge
partner.
(b) It is important for us to understand where the
money will be spent and that the money will be
used, at least in part, to build something new,
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whether or not these are additional features to
any existing technology.
You should provide details about any existing technology
that have already been developed by your business and
that may be used as part of your solution and trial period
and what new elements you intend to build.
Please confirm that you expect to have
the funds available to cover the
operational and development costs of
creating your proposed solution.
4. TRIAL
Tell us what the trial will involve and
(b) state how you envisage working
with the challenge partners
If the stated project cost is more than the maximum claim
limit of the challenge, you should provide details of the
sources of additional funding you will need to complete
the project.
Payments may be staged to assist with funding the
development and trial.
It is important that you plan your cash flow requirements
to ensure that you can accommodate the cash flow
required for the project.
Please pay particular attention to the requirements of the
challenge category detailed in the brief, how you intend
to run a trial with the challenge partner, and what your
objectives and success criteria are in order to
demonstrate the effectiveness of your solution.
(a) Give an indication of how you would ideally like to trial
your solution.
Please give careful consideration to how the objectives
of the trial will achieve your desired outcomes and
improve your business case beyond the lifetime of this
project. You may wish to include details about:
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trial objectives, methodologies and approaches
how will the success of the trial be measured
(b) Explain how you propose to work in partnership with
the respective challenge partner, and how you can use or
benefit from their content/ tools/ platforms/ expertise in
order to solve the challenge as stated.
Note: We appreciate that some details will need to be
clarified in later discussions with the challenge partners,
once the successful candidate has been selected, but
please give an indication of how you would ideally like to
trial your solution, and how you would judge its success.
5. BUSINESS MODEL AND MARKETPLACE
(a) Describe the business model
Please explain how you plan to monetise your final
and how you intend to
application or service after the end of the trial period,
detailing which business model(s) you will utilise.
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commercialise your proposed
solution after the trial period.
(b) Describe your target market,
its size and potential user
community and how you are
planning to compete in that
market
(a) Explain how you plan to monetise your final
application or service after the end of the project and trial
period, detailing which business model(s) you will use.
This question is designed to give the assessors some
insight as to the wider commercial potential of your
proposed solution.
(b) Describe your target market - market size, potential
number of users, audience demographic (age, gender,
geography) - and how your application or service will
compete in that market. Give supporting information
such as:
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6. TEAM AND EXPERTISE
Describe the company skills and
expertise, which will help you to deliver
the proposed solution, including any
skill gaps that the funding will help you
to fill
price points
competitor data such as unit sales, conversion rates,
where available
average expected revenues per paying customer
for “free” models and, if relevant, please include
what is free vs. what is paid
key competitors
Please include information on your company’s
background and its goals and highlight any skills gaps or
project risks.
Applicants should detail the track record of the company
and personnel required to develop and deliver the trial.
Show you have the skills and experience to deliver the
trial by Spring 207.
SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION
Once you are satisfied that you have answered all the questions then click on the submit button to
send in your application.
Please note that once you press ‘submit’ (i.e. commit the application for assessment), the process
cannot be reversed. While your application is in draft you can change it as often as you like. Entries
made during a session will be saved automatically and you can edit at your leisure. Before submitting
your application, the system will ask you to validate your application. This will validate successfully
if you have completed all required fields or will fail to validate if there are any requirements
outstanding. The system will produce a list of outstanding issues to address in this case.
4.
Stage 2 – Final Panel Pitching Sessions
This section explains the structure of the application process for Stage 2 of the contest.
Step 1: Final PitchFEEDBACK
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Successful Stage 2 finalists (by invite only) will be required to take part in a ten-minute presentation
and Q&A session with a panel, whose members will include sector experts and the relevant challenge
partners.
The panels are typically held in public.
The final panel session will be held on Thursday 26 January 2017.
Step 2: Panel review
The panel will review the panel findings and select the winner. The Panel will choose one winner
from the finalists in the contest.
The judges’ decision is final. By judges’ we mean the panel of the sector experts and the challenge
partners.
You will be notified on the day as to whether your project has been successful.
Step 3: Successful Projects
If successful at Stage 2 then the winning company will be issued a letter of engagement, subject to
additional due diligence checks.
The letter of engagement will specify the following steps of the process which will need to be taken
to confirm your engagement as a supplier to Staffordshire County Council.
At this point the solution requirements must:
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Be ready to start initial development subject to a signed service agreement no later than
three months from the date of winning.
Be ready to launch a trial with the challenge partner within six months of signed service
agreement.
Exist as a live trial for a period of at least three months (though the time period may vary
depending on the nature of the project).
Invoiced trial costs must not exceed the maximum amount offered for the challenge.
Step 4: Project Start
Once the Staffordshire Connected Roadworks Project has confirmed receipt of your complete and
signed Services Agreement the project can commence.
Successful contracts will typically be awarded on the following procurement basis:
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50% on signed service agreement
25% on delivery of the working solution and launch of live trial
25% on completion of minimum three-month trial
How to find out more
If you require further information or have a query regarding this contest, please contact the
Contest Team on [email protected].
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