# Market Engagement Exercise - Innovation and Technology Evaluation

> Pre-procurement notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Sport England](/buyers/sport-england/contract-awards)
- Published: 26 November 2020
- Stage: pre_procurement
- Notice ID: e0cdce7d-0aad-4cb0-a560-3335e75bdeb1-396455
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-1dd4064b-0d14-4a6a-b72d-b5f6449fd7a4

## Description

Sport England is seeking to learn more about innovation in sport and physical activity and would like to invite interested suppliers to a Pre-Market Engagement Supplier Event in relation to an imminent requirement for an Innovation Learning Partner\. The purpose of this Pre-Market Engagement is to: a\) Alert the market to a potential opportunity b\) Provide an overview of the requirement and the procurement process c\) Test the scope and feasibility of our requirements d\) Seek feedback and soft-market testing in order to refine requirements The event will be held virtually on Microsoft teams and will consist of a presentation followed by an open Question and Answer \(Q&A\) session of 15 minutes The event will be followed by 1:1 break-out sessions between Sport England and suppliers lasting no-more than 15 minutes with each supplier\. If you would like to book onto a break-out session please outline this within your response to this invitation and you will be allocated a timeslot and advised of the time in advance\. Should suppliers wish to attend this Pre-Market Engagement Event they are requested to respond and provide the names of no-more than two attendees via the Sport England e-sourcing portal messaging facility by no-later-than 17:00 on Thursday 4th December 2020\. Please also outline: - Whether you would like to book a 15 minute 1:1 break-out slot IT Platform of Event: Invites will be sent with a link to Microsoft teams Date of Event: Tuesday 8th December 2020 Time of Event: 9:00am start - 14:00pm Deadline for Responses Confirming Attendance: 17:00 Thursday 4th December 2020\. Note to Suppliers: This is a market engagement exercise and Sport England: - will not reimburse any expenses incurred by interested parties in attending this Pre-Market Engagement Event\. - reserves the right to discontinue the process at any time and this exercise does not commit Sport England to conduct a procurement process in relation to the requirements

## Related contract awards

- [SE1229 - Venue Hire](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-687b0935-4234-401e-9e2e-c5d5bd3ae43b): Sport England
- [SE1283 - Temporary Project Manager OD & Change](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-e629110a-9f78-45fa-87ab-287b94ddd8f2): Sport England
- [SE1231 - Activity Check-In Qualitative](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d2f21870-75de-4915-9690-c7d53e0da8bc): Sport England

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/e0cdce7d-0aad-4cb0-a560-3335e75bdeb1-396455)