The Supply of Economic Research on the Impact of Digital Urban Solutions.

The Catapult requires a provider of economic research services to validate and expand on its approach to measuring economic impact of digital interventions within cities. Key economic indicators including but, not limited to: productivity impacts, GVA, BCR, efficiency and effectiveness.

The selected supplier will deliver the following:

• An assessment and scoring of existing International economic impact methods of ICT (November 2016).
• A critique of the Catapult’s existing economic impact framework in the IOT/ICT (digitised world) (November 2016).
• Revised economic impact framework (based on recommendations from the above phase). (v.2.0) November 2016).
• Participation in 3 workshops to commence over the course of this engagement. (October 2016 / March 2017 / May 2017).
• Data integrity (grading) framework to be used alongside impact framework (December 2016).
• Minimum of 4 new economic models and 4 summary reports (April 2017).
• Revised economic impact framework (v.2.1) (May 2017).
• Repository of impacts (May 2017).
• Public facing white paper and/or academic journal publication on the impact of digitisation (new forms of measurement) (June 2017).

Additional information: To register interest in the opportunity and download the Invitation to Tender, please visit www.fccprocurement.org.uk where you will have to register if you have not used the system before. Once registered, the opportunity can be accessed through reference AC4J-REYI84. For queries regarding the portal, please contact the due north help desk via the home page.

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