UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

NUA would like to retain an external company to carry out our due diligence checks. The company will undertake relevant, global and time saving due diligence, by providing comprehensive donor due diligence reports on individuals, companies, trusts and foundations who are at the stage of cultivation where they could be solicited for a philanthropic donation by NUA. This is to ensure that any donation to Newcastle University would not cause any legal or reputational issues. The checks will help protect Newcastle University from fraud and reputational damage and guarantee a process that protects and boosts Newcastle University’s reputation for the long term. The outsourcing of due diligence checks will ensure that all Newcastle University stakeholders have access to, and understand, all available information relevant to safeguarding Newcastle University’s reputation, including benefits and potential liabilities, to make fully informed decisions about accepting a philanthropic donation. Over a 12-month period, the company will help support three major stages of the due diligence process: 1. Research The company will provide a service that can mine all online data sources and deliver the specific insights needed, gathering data, and collecting information quickly and efficiently. 2. Analysis The company will help decide what information is relevant and draw detailed, actionable insights from it, providing support to disambiguate data, helping NUA to save time and resources. 3. Delivery The company will provide due diligence reports that are comprehensive, clear, and shareable via an automated platform.

Newcastle University is looking for a secure, customisable easy to use survey platform to collect and analyse data provided by our colleagues, contingent colleagues and postgraduate students across all Faculties. Data could be gathered through a quick pulse survey or as part of a comprehensive listening strategy with a view to generating actionable insights and identifying opportunities for impact. Newcastle University has in the region of 28,000 students and 6,000 staff. The University requires a licence for approximately 6,500 stakeholders who may use the survey platform as end users. To date various licence agreements have been in place across the University for a range of survey platform providers for use across research, academic and cross-cutting requirements. The lack of consistency in terms of features and capability of these platforms has led to challenges when conducting data gathering exercises across target audiences. Therefore, the University is clear that the need to administer well-designed surveys exceeds the scale and capability of existing provision. The University’s ambition is to provide a positive survey experience for all colleagues and students, enabled by a platform which includes powerful analytics, reporting tools and technical support when needed. The scope of this tender is for the supply and support of a survey platform to be used by all members of the University, including those located in our Branch Campuses in Malaysia and

The scope of this requirement was for the provision of Huawei Hi-Care hardware and software maintenance and related support services for Newcastle University’s Huawei enterprise network infrastructure as detailed in this Invitation to Tender document, for a period of up to five years. This opportunity was only being issued to those appointed to Lot 3 Maintenance Services of the (NU/1538) Newcastle University Dynamic Purchasing System Agreement for Huawei Network Equipment, Maintenance and Related Services. This contract is for an initial 24 month period, with 3 x 12 month options to extend, giving a potential of 5 years in total. Not any award value stated is the maximum possible under this contract - the actual value may be significantly less.

We are seeking to appoint a supplier to support the development of our strategic narrative with a focus on communicating our five thematic strengths. Our vision is to be a world-leading university, advancing knowledge, providing creative solutions and solving global problems. We're world class at many things, but particularly recognised for our expertise in these areas: 1. Ageing and Health 2. Cities and Place 3. Culture and Creative Arts 4. One Planet 5. Data The creative services required will focus on two specific areas: 1. Developing the headline value proposition statements for each strength 2. Develop 1 x 3-minute video for each strength communicating the value proposition through a compelling narrative (Total of 5 videos) a. Engaging with stakeholders to identify the narrative/story for each research strength b. Videos will require end-to-end script writing, filming and editing c. Supply alternate cuts of the videos for use in different placements i. 1:1 ratio social placement (60 second cut) ii. 1:1 / 16:9 / 9:16 teaser trailers (10-15 seconds) iii. 16:9 condensed cut (1 – 3 minutes long) d. Supply projects and raw assets for in-house use after completion i. Be able to package up and supply all elements from a project to be worked on in-house using Adobe Creative Cloud applications ii. Ensure all footage, audio, designs and other composite elements created by the supplier are available and licensed for use in-house by Newcastle University in other productions iii. Provide costings for license buy-outs on stock or 3rd party elements where appropriate.

We are seeking to appoint a supplier to provide continuous tracking data on HE applicant needs, intentions, motivations, and decisions across both the undergraduate and postgraduate markets. The supplier specifically is required to provide the following products and services: Products 1) Access to Undergraduate Applicant key trends, tracking their changing needs, intentions, motivations, and decisions based on annual data collection from 2006 to the present, including: a) Exploration of key decision-making factors b) Benchmarking of all individual UK HEI’s performance c) Benchmarking of key trends based on subject choice d) Filtering at demographic, institutional, academic, attitudinal, and user segmentation levels e) Qualitative and emotional drivers – fully explorable verbatim comments to highlight key research areas 2) Access to Postgraduate Applicant key trends, tracking their changing needs, intentions, motivations, and decisions based on annual data collection from 2013 to the present, including: a) Exploration of key decision-making factors b) Benchmarking of all individual UK HEI’s performance c) Benchmarking of key trends based on subject choice d) Filtering at demographic, institutional, academic, attitudinal and user segmentation levels e) Qualitative and emotional drivers – fully explorable verbatim comments to highlight key research areas Services 1) Direct access to a suite of dashboards to fully explore the data at a granular level across these 2 key market areas: Undergraduate, Postgraduate 2) Annual workshops to deep dive on key analysis areas with the suppliers’ senior researchers, access to periodic expert trends and insight reports based on the latest data from the tracking suite and opportunities to form student/applicant panels for exploration of key themes. 3) Access to a research panel of 150,000 highly profiled 16-30s, who are available for online surveys, trackers, polling, audience measurement, benchmark studies and other research projects. 4) Provide a single Account Manager for updating and managing the products.

We are seeking to appoint a supplier to support the development of our Employer Brand with a focus on recruitment for professional services staff. The creative services required will focus on three specific areas: 1. Market Research to develop our value proposition a. Undertake research to benchmark our 'offer' regarding value proposition and terms and conditions relative to others such that we can (a) be aware of any gaps in our offer such that HR can work to fill these and (b) understand how we are distinct from other offers so that we can labour these USPs as part of the promotional activity. 2. Creative Development a. Create some compelling new content explaining the various professional career opportunities at the University. This will include 4 x 3 minute videos communicating our value proposition. b. Engaging with stakeholders to identify the narrative/story for each video c. Videos will require end-to-end script writing, filming and editing d. Supply alternate cuts of the videos for use in different placements i. 1:1 ratio social placement (60 second cut) ii. 1:1 / 16:9 / 9:16 teaser trailers (10-15 seconds) iii. 16:9 condensed cut (1 – 3 minutes long) e. Supply projects and raw assets for in-house use after completion i. Be able to package up and supply all elements from a project to be worked on in-house using Adobe Creative Cloud applications ii. Ensure all footage, audio, designs and other composite elements created by the supplier are available and licensed for use in-house by Newcastle University in other productions iii. Provide costings for license buy-outs on stock or 3rd party elements where appropriate 3. The development of up to 15 web pages, including the a. Review of existing pages to identify opportunities to condense pages b. Writing of compelling new content driven by our core values c. Stakeholder engagement

The university appointed active global equity investment managers to manage in the region of £75m behalf of the University of Newcastle endowment fund.

We are looking for a supplier to cover two aspects of our Chinese Social Media Management activity, Organic social media management and paid media campaign support. The supplier is required to have the ability to provide the following services and experience: Organic social media management • Have detailed experience managing in country higher education focused social media accounts for the Chinese market • Day-to-day management of Newcastle University’s existing Weibo, WeChat, Douyin and YouKu accounts – creating, uploading, scheduling and reviewing content as agreed in monthly client meetings • Support the creation and maintenance of a Newcastle University presence on Xiaohongshu (Little Red Book) • Support live-streaming chats with staff/students and virtual open days, when required • Monthly content recommendations for our accounts based on wider market trends and competitor insights for: o Potential undergraduate students o Potential postgraduate students o Current students studying in the UK o Our Chinese alumni community • Attending monthly content planning meetings with internal teams • Translation and reformatting provided content to be suitable for chosen channels • Comprehensive monthly reporting on activity including impressions, engagement, followers, web traffic, comment and engagement analysis, competitor analysis and benchmarking. As well as recommendations for improvements • Provide a named Account Manager 2.3.2 Paid media When paid campaign support is required for Chinese markets, the supplier will be required to provide the following services: • Have detailed knowledge and demonstrable experience booking paid media on channels used by prospective undergraduate and postgraduate students • Provide detailed campaign attribution and KPI measurements for all media plans • Provide full campaign reporting and optimisation as part of all media plans • Provide support on creative optimisation and testing • Provide regular insight into industry best practice, trends and future placement opportunities • Provide translation services for content and landing pages • Provide a single Account Manager for all campaigns

Our vision is to solve the challenge of automatic sign language translation by using Artificial Intelligence (AI). We will do this by creating an AI platform that uses neural networks and deep learning to: Provide anonymization, consistency, and reliability to sign language interpretation • Generate sign language from text/voice. • Detect and understand sign language and translate to text/voice • Develop an interactive and dynamic product Our mission is to open the world for Deaf people, meaning Deaf people can communicate freely and easily with hearing people and provide access to information where none currently exists. This will be far safer, quicker, and cheaper than the current provision, meeting the UK and the EU Governments’ Green agenda. The initial brief of the executive will be to: Phase (1) Produce a viable 5-year business plan, finance strategy and pitch pack Phase (2) Act for the company in the spin-out legal process and address all company formation matters Phase (3) Create an investment strategy and bring in the first £100k. Phase (4) Get 2 use cases up and running, with support from a freelance product manager. These will be either Network Rail, Lloyds bank, Finnish or Swiss broadcast companies or ASDA.

Professor Krasnogor saw an opportunity in developing a solution to the “Integration” problem that is generic for biotechnology and the life sciences beyond the specifics of these two projects. This is how the idea of establishing GitLife Biotech and the development of the CellRepo technology, as a versioning control system for engineered cell lines, including biotechnology microorganisms, in the cloud was born. The plan is to spin out GitLife Biotech Ltd in Q3 2022. To be able to spin out and take forward this opportunity, securing the involvement of experienced and appropriate business leadership is both essential and complementary to the existing technical staff and resource. Commercial and business skills are needed in addition to those in the current team. Moreover, it is clearly the case that Prof. Krasnogor and the current team will need to remain focused on the scientific and technical aspects of the company and be able to place trust in and be guided by experienced staff (ideally with sector experience, networks and VC contacts) who will run the day-to-day business operations and company’s strategic development. Thus, a talented and experienced CEO (Designate) to assist in the development of the business plans and forecasting needed to spin out the company from the University, as well as to provide leadership of GitLife Biotech, is needed. The person appointed to lead the company formation and development will have experience in business start –ups, deeptech companies or University Spin Outs, marketing, innovation and fund raising.

Newcastle University have developed a novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) microchip architecture which is uniquely underpinned by logic-based AI. The microchip named mignon was fabricated in early 2021 and this work was led by Dr Rishad Shafik and Professor Alex Yakovlev of the Microsystems Group, School of Engineering at Newcastle University. The aim is to create a Fabless IP based spin-out company mignon.ai which will market and sell the design of customised hardware devices and semiconductor electronics systems all based on the mignon microchip. The company mignon.ai will develop and design the microchips and supply codes to clients to enable the synthesising of microchip, where all manufacturing of hardware will be outsourced. The team requires an experienced and appropriate business executive to progress this opportunity. The initial brief of the executive will be to: (1) Produce a viable 5 year business plan; (2) Obtain university approval for the venture; (3) a. Act for the company in the spin-out legal process and address all company formation matters; b. Obtain founder academics’ and Newcastle University (including the Head of Company Creation) approval for appointment as CEO. c. Provide to the appropriate university all matters necessary for Research England reporting requirements; (4) Secure (venture capital and other) funding Stage (5) will produce the funds by which the new start-up company can consider employing the executive going forward. It is expected, and the intent of the scheme, that the Executive will remain with the business following the end of the contract period. However, such appointment will be at the discretion of the board and appropriate university and will be subject to confirmation, typically at Stage 4 above.

We are seeking to appoint a supplier to work on the second phase of our technical SEO project. In this last year, we’ve audited the technical SEO performance of NCL.ac.uk, ran thorough and automated competitor analyses, and built a three-year SEO strategy that prioritises narrowing the way in which Google crawls the estate in order to maximise crawl budget, and fix critical technical SEO issues. This work was spearheaded by an external technical SEO agency. This tender is for the second phase of this SEO project, to deliver the elements detailed below. The supplier must have demonstrable, specialist experience in technical SEO, specifically within the context of large sites (200,000+ URLs) and within the Higher Education sector. They will also need to have the ability to integrate into our existing content and web teams, whilst being sensitive to the challenges of effecting change in such a large, complex organisation as Newcastle University.

This appointment is for Maintenance and Repair of Air Conditioning/Comfort Cooling Plant and Refrigeration plant within University properties to ensure compliance with all relevant guidance, legislation and University Policy and Procedures. This includes the requirement to provide a 24 hour, 365 days per year helpdesk.

In order to deliver the UK-China Healthy Ageing Project, NICA requires the services of a Strategic Consultant in Beijing. Currently the role is fulfilled by Xueli (Sherry) Ma, via Ying He, at a rate of £500 plus expenses per day. The last day of this contract is 31 October 2022. Subject to agreement by Xueli Ma, we would like her to continue in this role to work on behalf of the project to build the requisite networks and relationships. You should provide a dedicated consultant (as a part-time employee) to provide the following services required and premises and management to operate from and for supervision as necessary. This contract will operate in the Peoples Republic of China.

TSP—the Teacher Success Project—at the University of York (UoY) has developed a suite of online tools to (a) identify the most suitable teacher applicants effectively and efficiently using video and text situational judgment methodologies, and (b) build the confidence and competence of novice teachers and emerging school leaders using a ‘scenario-based learning’ (SBL) methodology. We are looking for an experienced and appropriate business executive to progress this opportunity. The ideal candidate will have experience and understanding of educational technology markets, initial teacher education, and international education markets.

The scope of works includes the provision of various buildings works as and when required for the repairs, maintenance and improvements of the University premises. The University typically contracts for these works using a Measured Term Framework Agreement. The three highest scoring compliant contractors from the open tender process will be awarded.

This tender is for a Firm who will support the University’s internationalisation aims. The Firm will support the University providing the following: 1. Support all aspects of the recruitment and appointment of personnel; 2. Provide and manage all financial, administrative and legal responsibilities with regard to the appointment of the personnel and provide all support regarding HR including tax compliance; 3. Provide and manage all financial and administrative services, for example, procurement of materials, reimbursement of expenses and travel costs incurred by the personnel delivering the services outlined in 2.3.2; 4. Provide suitable office space in each location which includes the provision of internet and telecommunication services; 5. Provide detailed costing of appropriate accommodation for office space within the identified target markets. Specifically Jakarta - Indonesia, Bangkok – Thailand and Lahore – Pakistan, with the potential to expand into other markets in the regions in the future.

The University of Southampton have developed a unique DNA based therapeutic to activate NK cells against cancer. The therapeutic is delivered intramuscularly in combination with DNA encoding the potent immune stimulating cytokine IL-15. The objective is for an Executive to jointly work with the team to bring the opportunity towards and ultimately achieve launch of a new spinout company.

Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting utilises printing techniques to combine cells, growth media and/or biomaterials to produce 3D bio-tissues, with the aim of imitating natural tissue characteristics. Fields in which 3D bioprinting could be used include tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, drug toxicology screening, clinical transplantation, high-throughput assays, and cancer research.