Project Management support for Programme Delivery Team

Descriptions

The Programme Delivery team is the core department of Digital Catapult that delivers these projects. The department comprises: programme & project managers, product managers & owners, innovation experts, business analysts and budgeting and forecasting experts. The team works closely with colleagues across business development, technology, marketing and finance. The projects are diverse in both scale and scope and will be with commercial partners or as part of consortia funded as collaborative R&D activities through grants or internally funded projects. The Digital Catapult philosophy is to manage the planning, initiation and delivery of these projects using agile or waterfall methodologies as needed and focus on impact & clear economic outcomes for the UK. This contract will provide support for the Programme Delivery team. The anticipated start date is July 2022 on a call-off basis up to end of July 2023. Towards the end of the contract, we will review and may choose to further extend the contract. This contract is designed to ensure that the projects, activities and programmes delivered by the team can proceed at pace through a short-term assignment, and in parallel Digital Catapult may recruit and/or reassign personnel to take on delivery for the longer term. It is anticipated that a maximum of 2 suppliers shall be appointed within this Contract. The initial Contract term shall be for a period of 12 months with an option for Digital Catapult to extend for 1 further period of up to 6 months, at its discretion. Digital Catapult does not guarantee any volume or value of work from this Contract. However, it is anticipated that the maximum total value (including all expenses, and any extensions) for this Framework may be in the region of GBP170,000 excluding VAT.