Research to improve the assessment and monitoring of Regional and Local Economic Growth
The UK Infrastructure Bank ("UKIB") is a government-owned policy Bank, providing £22bn of infrastructure finance and partnering with the private sector and local government to finance a green industrial revolution and drive growth across the country. <br/><br/>Our mission is to partner with the private sector and local government to increase infrastructure investment in pursuit of our two strategic objectives: <br/><br/>• To help tackle climate change, particularly meeting the government’s net zero emissions target by 2050; and <br/>• To support Regional and Local Economic Growth (RLEG) through better connectedness, opportunities for new jobs and higher levels of productivity. <br/><br/>UKIB invests across the infrastructure landscape, including in new infrastructure technologies. UKIB has five priority sectors for investment, namely clean energy, storage, transport, digital, waste and water.<br/>Part of UKIB’s work is assessing and monitoring the impact which our investments have in relation to RLEG. As UKIB continues to grow, we want to improve how we assess and monitor RLEG to ensure that we can make the best assessment of RLEG impact.<br/><br/>UKIB is currently exploring what additional research in this space can provide and refining its requirements in relation to a potential tender. UKIB wishes to engage with potential suppliers of research in order to better understand what is possible in this space given time and budgetary constraints.
The UK Infrastructure Bank ("UKIB") is a government-owned policy bank, focused on increasing infrastructure investment across the United Kingdom. UKIB is providing £22bn of infrastructure finance to tackle climate change and support regional and local economic growth across the UK. <br/><br/>UKIB invests across the infrastructure landscape, including in new infrastructure technologies. UKIB has five priority sectors for investment, namely clean energy, storage, transport, digital, waste and water and including UKIB's key sub sectors of focus, namely:<br/>- Short duration energy storage;<br/>- Hydrogen;<br/>- Carbon capture, usage and storage;<br/>- Electric Vehicle charging<br/>- Zero emission buses;<br/>- Heat networks;<br/>- Port infrastructure for floating offshore wind;<br/>- Other clean energy such as solar and tidal.<br/><br/>Key to UKIB's work is having timely access to market data and related analytics, research, news and information so as to make informed investment decisions and ultimately achieve our strategic objectives.<br/><br/>UKIB is currently reviewing its existing market data subscriptions and undertaking an exercise to identify gaps in coverage and/or access as well as opportunities for rationalisation. The outcome will inform our procurement pipeline for market data services <br/><br/>In parallel with this exercise, UKIB wishes to engage with potential suppliers of market data services (including suppliers who are able to provide a managed service / subscription management service for market and reference data), as further described in Section VI.3 below.
UK Infrastructure Bank's Expert Advice Dynamic Purchasing System
The UK Infrastructure Bank ('UKIB') is the new, UK government-owned policy bank, focused on increasing infrastructure investment across the United Kingdom. UKIB will partner with the private sector and local government to finance a green industrial revolution and drive growth across the country. UKIB seeks to establish a Dynamic Purchasing System ('DPS') for the provision of expert advice.