Competitions

Competitions Overview

Competitions are based on specific government department needs. They provide opportunities for companies to obtain short term development contracts with the department. 

Companies are encouraged to submit applications based on their technology or new ideas. Competitions are open to all companies, including those not working in the particular sector, and are particularly suited to SMEs and early stage businesses.

SBRI competitions
Applications are submitted directly to the Department or, for some competitions, through the Technology Strategy Board competitions administration area (link at top right of page).

Please click on the individual competition title for more information and details of how to apply.  Click on a column heading to sort according to the data in that column.

Brief Government Departments Competition Title Status Open Deadline
  Department for Transport – Highways Agency Synthetic Environments in Managed Motorways

Use of synthetic environments applied to transport, in this case, modelling and managing complex traffic situations on motorways

Forthcoming 09/07/09 11/09/09
Download Competition Brief   Ministry of Defence Self Sustaining Forward Operating Base

Looking for technologies to power a Forward Operating Base whilst minimising or even removing the need for a fuel supply chain.

Open 21/05/09 31/07/09
Download Competition Brief   Department for Communities and Local Government Retrofit for the Future

This competition aims to retrofit UK social housing stock in order to meet future targets in reduction of CO2 emissions and energy use.

Closed 07/04/09 24/06/09
Download Competition Brief   East of England SHA Keeping Children Active

Looking for technologies which can help and motivate children to take more exercise, to understand and monitor the amount of exercise they are taking and to incentivise them to exercise more.

Closed 22/04/09 30/06/09
Download Competition Brief   East of England SHA Patient Safety and improving health outcomes

Technologies that enable better patient monitoring, accurate transfer and interpretation of data to determine the correct treatment, designing best practice and eliminating calculation errors in medication.

Closed 22/04/09 30/06/09
Download Competition Brief   East of England SHA Managing Long term Conditions

Ideas and technologies that address the remote monitoring of patients combined with decision support to enable better care from home.

Closed 22/04/09 30/06/09
Download Competition Brief   Ministry of Defence Lightweight Personal Protection

Personal protection (including body armour and helmets) is a major contributing factor to the load carried by our troops and this call will seek novel lightweight solutions whilst maintaining a high level of physical protection.

Open 25/06/09 06/08/09
Download Competition Brief   Ministry of Defence Future Protected Vehicle – 30 tonne tank

Looking for highly innovative ways of delivering the same capability as our current Main Battle Tanks, but in a significantly lighter package that is more easily transportable, fuel efficient and less reliant on the supporting military infrastructure.

Open 25/06/09 03/09/09
Download Competition Brief   Office for Security & Counter Terrorism Intent in Crowded Places

Seeking innovative approaches to understand, characterise, detect and influence intent in crowded places with a view to reducing the risk of terrorist attacks.

Open 03/06/09 10/07/09
  Ministry of Defence Prosthetics

This CDE call focuses on two specific areas of treatment research related to amputation research and similar complex traumas.

Forthcoming 16/07/09 03/09/09
Download Competition Brief   Design Council Hot Products

Aims to stimulate design led innovation in the security of mobile phone devices, through improving the security of data stored on mobile devices.

Closed 20/04/09 29/05/09
Download Competition Brief   Ministry of Defence Personal Robotics Support Vehicle

Ideas for a robotic support vehicle that can follow an Infantry Section (8 soldiers) can carry some of their equipment on, but which will have the same mobility and can go to the same places that the soldiers can.

Closed 23/04/09 05/06/09
Download Competition Brief   Ministry of Defence Lightweight Soldier Weapon System

Looking for novel technologies and materials that reduce the weight of the small arms (weapons) and ammunition carried by an Infantry Section (8 soldiers).

Closed 23/04/09 05/06/09
  Ministry of Defence Automatic Imagery Extraction

MOD is seeking automatic and semi-autonomous tools / techniques to ease operator workload in the processing & exploitation of imagery data in high-data throughput environments.

Forthcoming 27/07/09 03/09/09
Download Competition Brief   Ministry of Defence Countering Difficult Air Targets

MOD is conducting research to ensure that air defence weapons & systems are capable of dealing with the evolving threat from aerial systems.

Closed 24/02/09 22/05/09
Download Competition Brief   Ministry of Defence Energy Efficient Soldier

Specifically looking for the rapid implementation of novel lightweight or high density power technologies to reduce the weight burden carried by infantry soldiers.

Closed 24/03/09 07/05/09
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