Inception and Mid Term Evaluation for the Reduced Industrial Carbon Emissions (RICE) Project

Descriptions

Reduced Industrial Carbon Emissions (RICE) is a three year, £9 million operation under the 2014-2020 Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO) programme, Priority Axis 1: Research and Innovation. The RICE operation is in direct response to Welsh Government targets for CO2 reduction that cannot be met with present technology, conversely, Welsh industry desperately needs to lower energy costs and raw materials consumption to ensure global competitiveness; which will be capable of initiating and driving significant additional sustainable world-leading research and the creation of new businesses for existing SME’s and economic growth through its strategic operation and collaboration with global, regional and local industry stakeholders and world-class academic partners.The RICE operation is required to undergo an inception, a mid-term and a final evaluation. The inception evaluation should form the baseline against which progress can be assessed for the mid-term. It is expected that it will be used to develop a theory of change logic model, which will ensure that the data being collected is adequate to be able to evaluate against that model in the mid-term and final evaluations.Please note that we are only seeking to procure the inception and the mid-term evaluation at this stage. The RICE team at Swansea University is therefore seeking a professional company/organisation with previous demonstrable experience in conducting project evaluations on similar large projects, in particular ERDF projects.NOTE: The authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=82560