A4I - Programme Application Form (Stage 1)

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Application form

Please read the A4I Stage 1 EoI Guidance before you submit your application.

The information you provide will be reviewed by our specialists to determine whether the A4I partners have the right expertise to help you, and to ensure that your challenge can’t be solved by routine measurements that are commercially available. If your application is within scope, we will contact you to advise on the next steps in the competition.

Important information

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Once an application has been submitted, you will not be able to make any further changes or access the form again.
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Confidentiality and Privacy:

Your application will be treated as confidential. The information you provide will only be disclosed with programme partners for the purposes of delivering the A4I programme, fulfilling government reporting requirements, and helping to shape the national measurement strategy.

The National Physical Laboratory is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Read our privacy notice here.

Further help

If you experience any technical difficulties while using the application form, you must contact us at CompetitionsOffice@npl.co.uk

Section 1: Equal Opportunities (EO)

NPL is committed to ensuring that everyone can participate in our programmes. To help us monitor this commitment, we invite you to complete an Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form.

Please complete the Equal Opportunities Form first. For confidentiality reasons, the link will take you to another form. Once you have completed it, please return to this application form and tick the box below to confirm completion.

EO completed

Yes

Section 2: Applicant details

2.1 - Name of main applicant

2.2 - Email of main applicant

name@domain.com

2.3 - Telephone of main applicant

Section 3: Your company

Please provide the Full legal entity name, Registered address, Companies House Registration Number (CRN) of your organisation, Web address, Company Size and the Business sector of your company.
Note: this competition is open to UK- registered entities only.

3.1 - Company name.

3.2 - Company address.

3.3 - Companies House Registration Number (CRN).

3.4 - Company web address.

https://www.XYZ.co.uk

3.5 - Company size. Please select the size of your company. For category definitions please click HERE (note: this competition is open to SMEs only)

MediumSmallMicro

3.6 - Business sector. Please select the business sector for your company. A list of the highest level of the UK SIC classification is provided for you to select one. For category definitions please click HERE.

Section 4: Application information

4.1 - Title of this proposal

4.2 - Previous Applications. Has this problem or proposal been submitted to the Analysis for Innovators (A4I) programme in a previous round?

YesNo

4.3 - Please provide brief details of the previous submission

Please include (where possible): The application round or year; The application number; The title of the previous application

Rules on previous applications:

You can use a previously submitted application to apply for this competition. If your earlier application passed the eligibility checks and progressed to the assessment stage, you may submit the same proposal one further time.
You may also submit a previously submitted application with changes/differences to the proposal. However, if A4I determines that the revised proposal is not materially different from the original, rule 1 will apply.

Section 5: Proposal questions

5.1 - Your product/service/process

5.1a - Please describe the product, service or process that your problem relates to:

5.1b - Please select if your problem is related to an existing commercially available product, service or process:

Existing commercially available product Existing commercially available service Existing process within the company

5.1c - Has this product/service generated any commercial revenue within the last 12 months?

YesNo/pre-revenue

5.1d - Is this product/service available to purchase now?

YesNo

If yes, please provide a link to where it can be purchased:

5.1e - Has this product/service been deployed with a customer as part of a trial or field evaluations?

YesNo

Please provide details:

51.f - Please detail your current production volumes and give a short description of the product that you are producing:

5.2 - Your measurement challenge

What is the measurement or analysis problem that you need to solve?

Please summarise:

What the core of the problem is and any important aspects.
What your major challenges are in understanding this problem.

5.2 - measurement challenge answer:

5.3 - Previous attempts to solve the problem

What methods or techniques have you previously tried to solve the problem?

Please explain:

What methods or techniques you applied to understand or address the problem?
What outcome you had when trying to deal with the problem?
Whether there is a commercially-available solution to your problem (if not, why not).

5.3 - previous attempts answer:

5.4 - Business value of addressing the problem

What difference will it make to your business if you can solve this problem?

Please explain:

What impact solving the problem would have (e.g. increase in productivity, increased value in market)?
Estimated monetary benefit (£) to your organisation if this problem is resolved, including anticipated gains from increased productivity, reduced waste, enhanced quality, or higher sales and market share.
How you arrived at this estimate. Provide realistic values.

5.4 - business value answer:

This is the end of the application form. Please ensure that you are happy with your responses before clicking Submit. You will receive an email confirmation of your application, and your responses will be included in the body of that email.

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