How to win: UKRI-5975 Clean Energy Investment and Scale - Investor Engagement

About this contract

UKRI through its research council, Innovate UK is seeking a delivery partner to provide curated investor engagement activities that support scaling UK clean energy and climate technology companies to access growth and later stage private capital investment. The aim of this requirement is to improve the quality, relevance and effectiveness of investor engagement, ensuring that interactions between investors across the capital stake and between investors and companies which lead to credible follow up and progress towards investment, commercial partnerships or deployment. This requirement is not for generic events but for targeted, high quality engagement with relevant investors and ecosystem stakeholder supported by good preparation, quality control, follow ups, initiated deal flow and clear evidence of outcomes. Successful delivery will improve investor confidence, demonstrate clear investment pipelines, and support better progression

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• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £1,500,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: it closes 21 July 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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