FOI2020/00008: Challenging Competition Awards
Case reference FOI2020/00008
Published 8 July 2021
Request
Request Received: 9 January 2020
Innovate UK runs several grant funding competitions every year.
Please provide detailed information about challenging a grant funding competition award. This could include but is not limited to:
- any/all processes for challenging grant awards
- acceptable grounds/basis for challenging awards
- any/all forms or correspondence information necessary to challenge an award
- detail of all possible outcomes to a challenge
- details of actions/remedies resulting from a successful challenge"
Response
Response Sent: 11 February 2020
Innovate UK adopt a policy whereby funding decisions are final and not subject to appeal. The assessment process that Innovate UK employ uses a panel of independent experts to ensure that all decisions are objective and technically informed. As Innovate UK operates a rigorous approach to assessment they do not enter into any discussions relating to technical judgements.
However, there is a complaint process available if there are any issues relating to the conduct of Innovate UK, which includes any issues surrounding grant awards. Please find details of the complaints procedure on the following link, which details what will and will not be accepted as a complaint: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/innovate-uk/about/complaints-procedure
There is also a mechanism for reporting any suspected misconduct of a grant recipient with UKRI's fraud team on reportfraud@ukri.org. Once an issue has been reported to the team, an investigation can then be conducted.
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