Commercialising Connected and Automated Mobility: Supply Chain in the UK

Deadline: 11-Jan-23

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £16 million for projects to develop technologies and capabilities in the Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) supply chain.

Aims

The aim of this competition is to target early commercial self-driving vehicle opportunities and support the UK supply chain to grow and fill technology gaps necessary for their deployment.

Your project must develop Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) technologies, products or services into commercial offerings to exploit early and medium term commercial markets in the UK and internationally.

Your proposal must show how you will support the deployment of self-driving vehicles, by strengthening the capabilities of the sovereign UK CAM supply chain in one or more of the following areas:

• Filling specific technology gaps.
• Improved safety or security.
• Reduced costs.
• Improved performance.
• Improved reliability.
• Enabling the scaling-up of product supply or service provision.

Themes

Your project must focus on developing products or services in one or more of the following:

• Perception & Localisation: Developing solutions that enhance the perception and localisation capabilities of automated driving systems (ADS) supporting safe behaviours, especially around vulnerable road users
• Safety or Mission Critical Vehicle Systems: Vehicle systems, subsystems, components or associated computer hardware critical to the safe, secure and reliable deployment of self-driving vehicles
• Advanced Software Solutions: Solutions, including for insurance services that support the effective delivery of the ADS, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and simulation
• Verification and validation (V&V) of CAM: Effective and efficient V&V tools and services including those that enhance the delivery of blended virtual and physical solutions, supporting developers, deployers, insurers and assurers.
• Infrastructure: Research and development (R&D) to enhance the delivery of physical and digital infrastructure that supports and enhances the delivery of connected and self-driving vehicles and their services.

Funding Information

• Up to £16 million has been allocated to fund innovation projects in this competition. Funding will be in the form of a grant.
• Your project’s total grant funding request must be between: £200,000 and £2 million.
• If your organisation’s work on the project is commercial or economic, your funding request must not exceed the limits below. These limits apply even if your organisation normally acts non-economically.

Eligible Projects

Your project must:

• Have a grant funding request between £200,000 and £2 million.
• Start by 1st July 2023.
• End by 31st March 2025.
• Carry out all project work in the UK.
• Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK.
• Work with the Department for Transport (DfT) and Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) to ensure compatibility with future regulatory compliance.

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead organisation
  • To lead a project your organisation must:
    • Be a UK registered business of any size.
    • Collaborate with at least one other UK registered organization.
    • More information on the different types of organisation can be found in their Funding rules.
• Project team
  • To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
    • Business of any size.
    • Academic institution.
    • Charity.
    • Not-for-profit.
    • Public sector organization.
    • Research and technology organisation (RTO).
  • Each partner organisation must be invited into the Innovation Funding Service by the lead to collaborate on a project. Once accepted, partners will be asked to login or to create an account and enter their own project costs into the Innovation Funding Service.
  • To be an eligible collaboration, the lead and at least one other organisation must apply for funding when entering their costs into the application.
• Non-funded partners
  • Your project can include partners that do not receive any of this competition’s funding, for example non-UK businesses. Their costs will count towards the total project costs.
• Subcontractors
  • Subcontractors are allowed in this competition.
  • Subcontractors can be from anywhere in the UK and you must select them through your usual procurement process.
  • You can use subcontractors from overseas but must make the case in your application as to why you could not use suppliers from the UK.
  • You must provide a detailed rationale, evidence of the potential UK contractors you approached and the reasons why they were unable to work with you. They will not accept a cheaper cost as a sufficient reason to use an overseas subcontractor.
  • All subcontractor costs must be justified, and combined subcontractor costs must not exceed 30% of the total grant requested.
• Number of applications
  • A business can only lead on one application and can be included as a collaborator in a further 2 applications.
  • If an organisation is not leading any application, it can collaborate in any number of applications.

For more information, visit Govt. of UK.

For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1350/overview/be7d536d-553c-445f-a0da-f9ed423469dd