Freedom of information (FOI) releases from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
This is a disclosure log of UK Research and Innovation's responses to freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) requests that might be of wider public interest.
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1,058 disclosures
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Request Received: 8 January 2024
Ask the question by taking the FOI response and the percentage split (80/20) between Collaborative and Single Partners.
How many collaborative applications were declined, and how many single-partner applications?
Clarified 19 January 2024
Regarding your request, is the above in reference to:
The two competition strands: "Collaborative AI Solutions to improve productivity in key sectors" & "AI Solutions to improve productivity in key sectors"
And are you interested in the number of unsuccessful applications, or the number of ineligible applications (not sent for assessment)? Or both?
Responded: I would ask for both please
Published: 1 May 2024
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Request Received: 18 January 2024
For all Investor Partnership competitions (rounds 1-4) to date:
1.The total number of submitted applications
2.The number of assessed applications
3.The number of successful applications
4.The success rate
5.the minimum successful score
6.the maximum successful score
7.maximum score of failed applications
8.average grant fund value per project
9.the score distributions of the applications (e.g. % (or number) of applications which scored <70, 71-75, 76-80, 81-85, 86+)
10.the count of applications by innovation area
11.the count of successful projects by innovation area
12.The number of successful projects that were a consortium of 2 partners
13.The number of successful projects that were a consortium of 3+ partners
14.The number of successful projects which included a university or research partner
15.The number of applications which included a university or research partner
16.the number of 1) applications and 2) successful projects with total project cost within £100k increments
I would also like to request the number of unsuccessful applications, if any, which scored above the minimum funded score, please.
Published: 1 May 2024
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Request Received: 9 January 2024
Innovate UK Smart Grants: June 2023, deadline 28th September 2023. (Applicants were notified of their outcomes on 11th December 2023).
I would be very grateful if you could please provide the below information on the above funding competition for both:
a)Stream 1 projects (6-18 months duration, eligible project costs between £100K-£500K), and;
b)Stream 2 projects (19-36 months duration, total eligible project costs between £100K-£2M).
The information I would like to request is as follows:
1. The total number of applications submitted and the number of those that were assessed (i.e. deemed eligible for funding);
2. The overall number of applications awarded funding and a breakdown of how many of these were first-time applications and how many were resubmissions;
3. The total number of applications within each innovation area and the number of those that were successful in each area;
4. The average grant request and project size of the applications successfully awarded funding;
5. The funding thresholds and average scores of successful applications;
6. The percentages of successful applications that were Industrial Research and Experimental Development;
7. The number of successful Industrial Research and Experimental Development projects that were (i) single applicant/partner, (ii) 2 partners, (iii) 3+ partner;
8. The total funding allocated in this competition round.
9. How many projects awarded went to project set up
Published: 1 May 2024
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Request Received: 22 January 2024
I am writing to submit a Freedom of Information request for information related to the organisation's contracts register, procurement strategy document, and contact details. Please find the detailed requests below:
1. Contract Register Request:
I am seeking the full and entirety of the organisation's contract register or database. The register should include the following columns/headings or something similar:
• Contract Reference -Unique reference number associated with the contract
• Contract Title
• Procurement Category
• Supplier Name
• Spend (Total, Annual or contract value)
• Contract Duration
• Contract Extensions
• Contract Start Date
• Contract Expiry Date
• Contract Description [Please provide me with as much detail as possible.]
• Contact Owner (Person that manages the contract register)
• Contact details of section 151 officer
• CPV codes/Pro-Class
If any of the headings within your contract register has not been provided, please state this within your response. Please provide the contract's register file in Excel format.
2. Procurement Strategy Document Request:
• Can the organisation provide a full version of their Procurement Strategy for the fiscal year 2023-2024?
• If the Procurement Strategy is a strategic direction (2022-2025) instead of an annual plan, please provide an update document for 2023-2024. If an update cannot be provided, please provide information on when an update is planned to be published.
• We require the full document. If any parts of this document have been removed, please state this within your response.
3. Contact Details Request:
• Provide contact details of the person responsible for API or data sharing, including [Name, Job Title, Telephone, Email Address].
• Provide contact details of the person responsible for the actual contract's register, including [Name, Job Title, Telephone, Email Address].
IMPORTANT:
1. If the organisation has a CRM system or a similar system, ensure there is a facility to download and extract contract data.
2. If providing a weblink to a portal, ensure that all contracts are included, as some organisations may only upload a small portion of their contracts.
3. For organisations planning to make an exemption around spend, clarify that the spend information requested is an overall figure, and a complete breakdown is not required.
Published: 1 May 2024
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Request Received: 18 December 2023
All the applications are under Kelham 1 and should be under your system.
Catapult program , build , insurance and aI and then mindset .
I will contact the catapult seperately but I would like a copy of the contract you have with catapult for the competition .
Published: 1 May 2024
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Request Received: 21 March 2024
Please can you supply the following for both the Rothera and King Edward Point Research Station:
1. An inventory of firefighting equipment at each research station, including consumables.
2. An inventory of medical equipment and medicines at each research station, including consumables.
3. What firefighting and first aid training/qualifications are non specialist staff* at the research stations expected to have.
*specialist staff means either professional firefighters or clinicians (as appropriate).
Published: 22 April 2024
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Request Received: 9 February 2024
For each Research Council and each of their facility centres and institutes, please provide all relevant information to the following questions, with both text and relevant links to documents.
High Performance Computing (HPC)
a/ How many HPC systems does each Council/Facility centre/Institute have?
b/ Who is the vendor?
c/ Who is the current supplier/integrator maintaining it? For each within the organisation who is
d/ The Business lead?
e/ The Technical lead?
f/ For each would you share their email address and mobile / direct dial contact numbers?
g/ Would you please confirm the contract end date?
h/ For each HPC when is the next refresh planned?
i/ What would you like to improve upon in your next refresh?
Published: 17 April 2024
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Request Received: 27 March 2024
Dear Science and Technology Facilities Council,
The information that we require, under the Freedom of Information Act, is as follows:
1) Do you use a tool for live chat/ web chat?
2) If so, which supplier do you use for this tool?
3) How much do you spend annually on a live chat/ web chat tool?
4) Which month & year does your contract with your supplier end?
5) Who is the budget holder for this contract?
Live chat is a tool that connects customers with actual, human support representatives. This allows your users to resolve issues in real time. Using live chat, customers can get answers quickly. They'll spend less time waiting to find a solution or sifting through a knowledge base on your website.
Published: 17 April 2024
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Request Received: 19 March 2024
Under the Freedom of Information Act, relating to the period from the start of November 2023 to the end of February 2024, can you please provide:
1) Any communications which mentioned or relate to the project "DARE UK" ("Data and Analytics Research Environments UK" - Home - DARE UK
sent by the CEO of MRC (and his office) as sent to Health Data Research UK's CEO (ie Andrew Morris, and his office). Please include attachments within those communications.
2) Any replies or responses to those communications received by MRC (which may include the investment manager for HDR at MRC in addition to the MRC CEO)
Published: 17 April 2024
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Request Received: 23 January 2024
Clarification Received: 13 and 16 February 2024
I am hereby submitting a Freedom of Information request to obtain information related to discussions, writings, correspondences and analysis that lead to the Finch Report in 2012 and the subsequent REF mandate in 2014 that mandated articles to be available Open Access to qualify for the ref as well as later texts in all forms discussing these.
Full details of the request and clarifications are provided in the attached document.
Published: 10 April 2024