Contract opportunities

Wellcome’s Climate and Health programme seeks to understand where we can best play a catalytic role in strengthening the already seeded research field, as well as how we can best support research and broader ecosystems that help accelerate transitions to sustainable food systems. This work will focus specifically on opportunities related to Europe (including the UK). 

Wellcome is seeking a learning and support partner for a co-created Community Engagement Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework (MEL). Over the past year, we have collaborated with several global partners to co-develop a MEL Framework in an open-source e-learning platform format. For the next phase of this project, we seek a supplier with strong strategic and delivery capacities to support key partners in utilising the framework. This contract requires the successful contractor to sub-contract the consultancy that developed the original MEL framework, Itad.

Wellcome’s Insight team is looking to commission and collaborate with an organisation who can deliver and manage a long-term insight community and platform (Audience Insight Collective) involving Wellcome’s diverse audiences in 12+ countries. Our audiences include researchers, scientists, policymakers and strategic partners across the globe - all of whom make a contribution to, or are interested in, life, health and well-being. In order to achieve its strategic objectives, Wellcome needs to reach, engage and influence our audiences. As such, there is a need to provide timely and relevant insight to inform engagement and influencing approaches. The Audience Insight Collective should help us meet this need in providing access to our audiences in a more agile and equitable way. 

Wellcome’s Climate and Health programme seeks to significantly increase our understanding of the effects of climate change on human health and identify the interventions and policies that can respond to the climate crisis in a way that protects and improves human health. This programme of work is intended to monitor, evaluate and learn about the Climate Impacts Awards, an annual funding call run through the Climate and Health team at Wellcome.

We are seeking proposals from qualified cybersecurity firms to conduct comprehensive security testing of our Laboratory Information Management System, SEDRI-LIMS. The goal is to identify potential vulnerabilities and provide guidance on any risk mitigations to ensure the integrity, confidentiality and availability of our digital product.

The aim of this activity is to identify the most promising areas for intervention, pinpoint opportunities and gaps, and determine where further mechanistic research is most required or where the current evidence base is weak. The outcome of this activity will be a report, developed in collaboration with a science writer dedicated to the project, of a quality to be publishable externally.

We are looking to appoint a science writer to work with three to four experts to produce a report for Wellcome focused on how to best fund research that will ultimately improve treatment and early intervention options for young people under 18 experiencing symptoms of anxiety and/or depression. 

Wellcome’s Research Culture and Communities team are seeking a supplier to work with us to deliver up to £1 million of funding to small, Black-led initiatives supporting the careers of Black-heritage academic researchers. The supplier would act on behalf of Wellcome to deliver a flexible, accessible and impactful grant-giving programme that goes beyond traditional funding models. The selected organisation should have a track record of working with Black/racially minoritised communities.

Centres for Exchange (CfE) is a collaborative learning and design project led by Wellcome’s Community Engagement team. CfE aims to re-envision knowledge exchange with communities in research. Over the last year, we collaborated with global partners and communities to develop a framework that rethinks knowledge exchange with communities in health research. In this next Proof of Concept phase of CfE, we will fund up to nine community-based organisations in India, Kenya and South Africa, to implement and learn from the framework.