The UK’s innovation accelerator for transport,
Sam Markey
Ecosystem Director – Place Leadership
The UK public sector spends £300bn a year buying good, services and works from the private sector. UK local government procurement alone accounts for £60bn a year. This represents a huge market and a significant lever public authorities can use to create and shape markets.
However, despite all this potential to drive strategic outcomes, public procurement is largely under-exploited as a mechanism for sparking and scaling innovation. The UK Government’s Innovation Strategy notes “a low appetite for risk and experimentation” in public procurement, due to “the overall culture, expertise and incentive structure of the public sector”. As a result, UK public procurement is still largely characterised by procedures which over-specify on requirements (leaving little room for innovation) and select based largely on price. Faced with a whole box of tools, procurement professionals invariably reach for the same procedure each time.
By procuring more innovative solutions, the public sector can be a driver of innovative new ideas, providing innovative firms with the foothold they need to succeed in the market, fuelling the scale-up ecosystem and facilitating wider adoption of new tech services. At the same time, procuring more innovative products and services can lead to better and cheaper public services in the long run.UK Government, Leading the future by creating it: Innovation Strategy, July 2021
Our aim is to up-skill public sector buyers in innovation-friendly procurement approaches, leading to greater regional R&D activity and private sector investment.
Through IPEC we will inspire and empower public authorities to adopt new procurement behaviours through practical support, the creation of robust evidence which makes the case for change and collective action.
Sam Markey
Ecosystem Director – Place Leadership
The towns and cities with the highest productivity and growth tend to have harnessed innovative products and services, creating the right conditions for success. As global strategist Parag Khanna puts it, “Connectivity is destiny”. A place cannot change its location, but investing in its connectedness – whether physical, digital or social connectivity – can create new opportunities.
The development and implementation of connected places innovations that deliver greater mobility, access, optimise land use, improve decision making, foster new public spaces and points of human interaction are therefore integral to both the revival of regional economies and the sustained success of the UK’s existing engines of innovation.
“Connectivity is destiny. A place cannot change where it is located, but by investment in its connectedness it can create new opportunities.”Parag Khanna
Connected Places Catapult has worked with a range of public and private sector place leaders to seed and stimulate local hubs of innovation both in the UK and globally.
From the Belfast City Region to Sharjah in the UAE, we have experience partnering with places to help unlock new economic potential through the adoption of new technologies and innovative approaches. We help seed and scale new and existing hubs of innovation by mobilising local and regional ecosystems around a shared plan and attracting investment.
Building on that experience, we have generated a range of new analysis and guidance to help more places spark new hubs of innovation activity or amplify the impact of existing ones.
Joining the Dots brings city leaders together to build connections around the shared challenges and opportunities and areas of economic strength for businesses in their respective regions by creating a safe space for confidential discussions
The Innovation district group enables the delivery of, and maximise the benefits from, innovation districts and knowledge quarters. These new forms of urban geography are places where different sectors and uses intersect to drive innovation and inclusive growth.
The Freeport Innovation Network (FIN) is a collaboration vehicle for Freeports to shape and orchestrate their innovation activity as a collective.
The Inclusive Innovation Network aims to deliver faster growth and more equitable prosperity by challenging the industry to champion inclusivity as much as it drives innovation.
Connected Places Catapult is focused on growing businesses with innovations in mobility services and the built environment that enables new levels of physical, digital, and social connectedness. Our company registration number is 11837978 and our registered office is 170 Midsummer Boulevard, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, MK9 1BP. Connected Places Catapult is registered with the Information Commissioner Office, registration number ZA773397.
This privacy policy applies to anyone who asks about or is involved in the Transport Research Innovation Grant (TRIG), buys, or uses our services in any way (for example by email, through the website, or by telephone). We take privacy seriously and we want you as our service user, to understand the information we collect about you, how we process and protect the personal information which we collect about you, from you and from third parties, so that you can be confident that the information is being used safely and in ways that are reasonable expected, and what rights you have in respect of your personal information.
When we refer to ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’, means Connected Places Catapult.
We will collect personal information which can include:
Your personal information collected will be used to allow us to deliver services on behalf of the Department of Transport and to support innovative projects, create new commercial opportunities and improve productivity, socio-economic and environmental benefits for places by:
Your IP address will be used to allow Connected Places Catapult to set appropriate access permissions on its website.
Our IP and footfall sensors will track movement within Connected Places Catapult London office as part of a ‘testbed’ project currently being run for SMEs to deploy their technology as a showcase and experimental environment. The data from this project will be used for analytical purposes only.
CCTV recording is un use at all Connected Places Catapult locations, this is used to ensure the security of property and premises and for the preventing and investigating crime purposes only. Area monitored by CCTV are sign-posted. Where necessary or required, this information is shared with you, police forces, security organisations and persons making an enquiry.
In many cases we pseudonymise or anonymise your information before we share it with others, or where we no longer require the information in identifiable form.
Anonymisation is the process of turning data into a form which does not identify individuals and where identification is not likely to take place.
Pseudonymisation is the process of information in such a way that it can no longer be attributed to you without the use of additional information and where that additional information is kept separately. This allows for a much wider use of the information for statistical or other purposes.
Directly from you, to support your application to the Transport Research Innovation Grant programme; this information can be collected when:
We will also be collecting the following information during application, webinar sign up, potential interviews, workshop etc:
When participating in projects, we may collect information about you from other providers.
We use your information for a number of purposes. Whenever we use your information, we must have a legal justification under data protection law for its use. The legal justification will depend on the purpose for which we intend using your information.
Our legal justification for processing your personal information generally falls into the below categories below within Article 6 of the General Data Protection Regulation:
It is important that you understand that we may share your information with others. We may share your personal information within our group of companies and with third parties.
We may share your personal information within the Connected Places Catapult group of companies.
We may share your personal information with the third parties listed below for the purposes identified within this privacy notice:
We retain information in accordance with our legal obligations and national best practice. We ensure compliance through regular auditing and ensure information is securely disposed of when it has reached the end of its retention period. We implement data retention periods for different categories of personal data and/or different processing purposes, including where appropriate, archiving periods. We will only keep your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to support our legitimate business interests and to comply with our legal and regulatory requirements.
A copy of Connected Places Catapult Records Management Policy can be provided upon request.
Connected Places Catapult supports innovative projects globally. We (or third parties acting on our behalf) may store or process information that we collect about you in countries outside the UK. Information may be transferred, processed and stored outside the country where your information is collected, including countries where the level of data protection may net be deemed adequate by local legal or regulatory authority in the country of origin of the data. Where we make a transfer of your personal information outside of the UK, we will take the required steps to ensure that your personal information is protected.
Generally: e.g. if your permanent address is outside the UK, or the project is outside of the UK, we may send details to individuals specifically to promote your involvement within the project.
The safeguards in place to ensure that the data is securely protected are:
In other circumstances, the law may permit us to otherwise transfer your personal information outside the EEA. In all cases, however, any transfer of your personal information will be compliant with applicable data protection law.
If you would like further information regarding the steps, we take to safeguard your personal information when making international transfers, please contact the Data Protection Manager using the details on the foot of this Privacy Notice.
Under data protection law you have a number of specific rights in relation to the personal information that we hold about you. These include rights to know what information we hold about you and how it is used. You may also exercise these rights at any time by contacting us using the details set out at the top of this privacy notice and without adversely affecting your service.
We will not usually charge for handling a request to exercise your rights. If we cannot comply with your request to exercise your rights, we will usually tell you why.
If you make a large number of requests or it is clear that it is not reasonable for us to comply with a request, then we do not have to respond. Alternatively, we can charge for responding.
Under data protection legislation you have the right to:
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) if you are unhappy with the way that we have dealt with a request from you to exercise any of these rights, or if you think we have note complied with our legal obligations. Whilst you are not obliged to do so, we would appreciate you making us aware of any issue prior to notifying the ICO and giving us the opportunity to respond. You can contact either the Risk and Compliance Manager or Data Protection Manager using the postal address at the top of the privacy notice. More information can be obtained either on the ICO website (https://ico.org.uk/) or by calling 0303 123 1113.
Making a complaint will not affect any other legal rights or remedies that you have.
We have implemented appropriate technical and organisational security to protect your personal information, this includes:
Please contact us if you require further information about how we secure your data.
If you have any queries or would like to exercise your rights or to establish whether any rights apply to you, please speak to the Data Protection Manager (dataprotection@cp.catapult.org.uk).
or by writing to the address at the top of this privacy notice, marking your communication “Private and Confidential – FAO Connected Places Catapult Data Protection Manager”
Telephone: +44 (0)1908 359 999
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time to ensure that it remains accurate. In the event that these changes result in any material difference to the manner in which we process your personal data then we will provide you with an updated copy of the Policy and signpost you to specific changes.
The purpose of this policy is to specify the details of how Connected Places Catapult (“CPC”) approaches and supports the elimination of modern slavery and meets its obligations under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (MSA).
Further, this policy outlines our commitment to ensuring that all current and future suppliers meet their obligations under the requirements of the MSA.
This policy has been approved by CLT on August 2022. This policy will be reviewed on an annual basis and where necessary an updated version will be published.
Modern slavery is a crime and a violation of fundamental human rights. It takes various forms, such as: slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour and human trafficking, all of which have in common the deprivation of a person’s liberty by another in order to exploit them for personal or commercial gain.
CPC has a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery and is committed to acting ethically and with integrity in all its business dealings and relationships.
CPC is dedicated to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure modern slavery is not taking place anywhere in its business or supply chain. Further, it is committed to ensuring there is transparency in its approach to tackling modern slavery throughout the supply chain – consistent with its obligations under the MSA.
CPC expects the same high standards from all of its agents, contractors, sub-contractors, suppliers and their sub-contractors, consultants, third-party representatives and other business partners.
This policy covers all colleagues, including those engaged in duties for the organisation under a letter of authority, secondment contract or work experience/internship; volunteers and any other third party such as contractors who have authority to perform work for or procure goods and services on behalf of CPC.
The Procurement Team has primary and day-to-day responsibility for ensuring that procurement processes are effective in countering modern slavery, including:
Management at all levels of CPC are responsible for ensuring those reporting to them understand and comply with this policy and that they are given adequate time to attend training regarding the issue of modern slavery in supply chains as appropriate.
The prevention, detection and reporting of modern slavery in any part of CPC’s business or supply chain is the responsibility of everyone working for or under the control of CPC.
If modern slavery is suspected either within CPC’s own business or as part of the supply chain, take one or more of the following actions:
If you are unsure about what constitutes the various forms of modern slavery, please contact the Procurement Team.
CPC is committed to ensuring no one suffers any detrimental treatment as a result of reporting their suspicion that modern slavery is, or may be, taking place in any part of the business or its supply chain.
If you do not feel comfortable raising your concern internally, you can raise it with our independent whistleblowing service: SeeHearSpeakUp. Refer to the Whistleblowing Policy for more information.
CPC may terminate its relationship with individuals, suppliers, and organisations if they are deemed to have breached this policy.
CPC’s zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery will be adequately communicated to all agents, contractors, suppliers, consultants, third-party representatives, and other business partners and reinforced as appropriate thereafter.
Whistleblowing Policy
Disciplinary Policy
Grievance Policy
This statement is made pursuant to section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the “Act”), to help ensure that modern slavery does not occur within Connected Places Catapult (“CPC”) or its supply chain.
CPC has a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery and is committed to acting ethically and with integrity in all its business dealings and relationships.
At CPC, we provide impartial ‘innovation as a service’ for public bodies, businesses, and infrastructure providers to catalyse step-change improvements in the way people live, work and travel.
We connect businesses and public sector leaders to cutting-edge research to spark innovation and grow new markets. We run technology demonstrators and SME accelerators to scale new solutions that drive growth, spread prosperity, and eliminate carbon.
We are committed to ensure that there is a transparency in our business and supply chain, consistent with the Act and we expect that our suppliers will hold their own suppliers to the same high standards.
We have systems and procedures in place to identify, assess and monitor potential risk areas in our supply chains as part of the procurement process.
We are committed to ensuring that there is no modern slavery in our supply chains or in any part of our business.
Our Modern Slavery policy reflects our commitment to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business relationships and to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure slavery is not taking place anywhere in our supply chains.
Our Whistleblowing Policy offers an independent channel for employees to raise concerns and report suspected wrongdoing in the knowledge that their concerns will be taken seriously, appropriately investigated, and their confidentiality respected.
Our Procurement Policy outlines the Due-Diligence process followed for any procurement.
Periodic training is given to colleagues in accordance with the learning and development framework and training needs analysis.
We will continue to review and update our policies to ensure they are up to date and shared with all employees.
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