DRIVE35 Scale-up Fund Drawdown 5

You must state the name and full registered address of your organisation and any partners or subcontractors working on your project. We are collecting this information to understand more about the geographical location of all applicants. Your answer can be up to 100 words long.

Will your project involve any trials with animals or animal testing? You must select one option: Yes No We will only support innovation projects conducted to the highest standards of animal welfare. Further information for proposals involving animal testing is available at the UKRI Good Research Hub and NC3R’s animal welfare guidance .

Will you have the correct permits and licences in place to carry out your project? We are unable to fund projects which do not have the correct permits or licences in place by your project start date. You must select one option: Yes No In the process of being applied for Not applicable

Does your proposed work involve any international collaboration or engagement? You must provide details of any expected international collaboration or engagement. You must include a list of the names and the countries, any international project co-leads, project partners, visiting researchers, or other collaborators are based in. You must also include details of any subcontractors or service providers. If your proposed work does not involve international collaboration or engagement, your answer must confirm this. Your answer can be up to 100 words long

You must indicate whether an export control license is required for this project under the academic export control guidance . You must select one option: Yes No

You must explain if your proposed project work relates to UKRI’s Trusted Research and Innovation (TR&I) Principles , including: a list of any dual use (both military and non-military) applications to your research a list of the areas where your project is relevant to one or more of the 17 areas of the UK National Security and Investment (NSI) Act whether an export control license is required for this project under the academic export control guidance and the status of any applications a list of any items or substances on the UK Strategic Export Control List If your proposed work does not relat

Provide a tabulated list of all UK government grant funded projects that you have been awarded over the last five years, where the grant to your business has been over £500,000. You must format this table with the following columns: reference number of the grant, for example: the Innovate UK project number title of the grant funded project the start and end date of the project one sentence description of the scope of the project and your organisations part in it two sentence description of what your organisation gained from the project and why it had a positive impact your UK headcount at the

Describe your current business and your vision of success for the future. Describe the businesses delivering this project to give us a good understanding of your current positioning, capacity, strategy and ambition. Include: a brief history of the business making this proposal a description of the current scale and capacities of the business and your UK and global facilities, employees and products your revenue, and the key drivers of this a summary of your corporate strategy that is related to this proposal and the business expansion that this proposal aims to unlock, including how this will

What is the market for the innovation around which you are scaling up, and why is this market attractive? Who will you compete against in your target market and how will your project win a share of the market? Describe the size, growth, and accessibility of the market you are targeting with this scale up project. You must ensure that these are the market for your specific product, not for a broad total industry category. You must also ensure that they are time bound, annual not cumulative, and that your serviceable obtainable market (SOM) is the size of the market you plan to obtain, for examp

What product or process are you taking to market, how does it support the transition to Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) manufacturing, and how does it solve a customer problem? Explain why your product or process is a compelling solution to the problem. Include: a description of your product or process innovation and how it functions how your product or process supports the transition to ZEV manufacturing in the UK and enables environmental benefits the customer problem it solves, and value proposition offered by your product or process Your answer can be up to 500 words long. You must submit one

, Sales Projections and Growth Plan How will you address your initial market during and immediately following your scale up project? Describe how you will secure early market success for your scale up project, including your market entry strategy into the Zero Emission Vehicle market and other sectors or markets. How will you scale beyond your entry market? Describe how you will scale beyond initial market entry and how your business model will evolve and grow to address a growing market footprint. What are your sales projections for the 10-year period following the project? Provide your reven

Are your technology and manufacturing processes ready for the scale up project that you are proposing? What evidence supports your readiness to move into pilot scale (low-volume) or demonstration scale (mid-volume) production? Include: your current Technology Readiness Level (TRL) rating and evidence to show that this is appropriate, for example: prototype tests, lab data, trial data, or pictures your current Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) rating and evidence to show that this is appropriate, for example, results from laboratory or pilot runs, quality assurance (QA) or quality control (QC

What is your plan for your scale up project, and how does your delivery plan align with your commercialisation strategy? How will you develop your pilot or demonstration scale manufacturing operations and ensure they meet customer quality expectations? Include: a clear description of your scale up project objectives and the specific manufacturing or process capabilities you will deliver a high-level project timing plan or work breakdown structure showing key tasks, milestones and deliverables for the design, build or conversion and commissioning of your manufacturing facility how this scope al

What are the key risks to successful delivery of your scale up project, and how will you manage them? Include: the main risks and uncertainties that could impact this project, including the financial, technical, manufacturing, commercial, managerial, and environmental risks how you will mitigate these risks any key risks during the project startup phase and how they will be mitigated any project inputs that are critical to completion, such as resources, expertise, data sets, and test facilities as part of the product introduction, how you will manage any outputs likely to be subject to new pro

What are the costs associated with delivering your scale up project, and how are these assumptions justified? Include: a summary of the total project budget, and how your requested grant amount aligns with the project scope and delivery plan a breakdown of cost categories and justification of key cost assumptions a breakdown of subcontractor costs in relation to the total costs, and how value for money from the subcontractors is being ensured these values must correlate with the values you enter into the IFS project cost submission sheet a breakdown of finances by financial years, project spen

How well established is your supply chain. How will you prepare it for scale up, or how might it evolve to support scale up during and post project? Include: a description of your existing supply chain network, raw materials, components, subassemblies, key supplier relationships, and any capacity constraints your plan to develop, qualify or diversify suppliers in readiness for pilot or demo scale production, examples might include partner evaluations, contracts, risk mitigation any logistics, inventory, or procurement strategies you will implement to ensure continuity and cost efficiency at hi

Is your organisation ready for the scope and scale of growth that will be required to deliver this scale up project and take the outputs successfully to market? Who will deliver your scale up project and what responsibilities will collaborators and subcontractors hold? If you are working in a consortium, you must focus on the project partners in proportion to their grant request and their responsibility for the outcomes of the project. Include: your current organisational structure to deliver the project the roles and responsibilities of key project team members, as well as any consortium memb

Do you have the right leadership team to deliver this project and take the results of this project to commercial success? Describe the team that will lead the business and take the outputs of this project to commercial success. We recognise that your team capabilities will depend on your stage of maturity. You must ensure you include the relevant information for your stage of maturity. For pilot scale projects: describe your strategy, commercial and technical leadership. For larger scale projects: describe your strategy, finance, commercial, technical, and operational leadership. If you are wo

What is your business expansion and investment plan? What is your readiness to secure this investment within the permitted timeframe for this competition fund, whether from parent companies, corporate sponsors, institutional investors or lenders? Describe how you will raise the finance required to deliver your scale up project and your wider business expansion objectives, including taking your product or process to market. You must evidence your plan to raise the investment required to deliver the project. This is before you are able to fully access your scale up grant, together with your plan

What is the financial business case for private co-investment in your project or business? Will it enable you to achieve the level of finance required to deliver your scale up project and achieve your business expansion objectives? Provide a robust business case financial model demonstrating the returns required to fund your scale up project. This can be at project, product, facility, or organisational level. Include: a ten-year annualised, not cumulative, financial projections showing sales, costs, profit, include working capital assumptions, and key value drivers justification of overall inv

The Value for Money (VfM) workbook and questions 21 to 28 of the application, relate to the economic value for money assessment. You must download and complete the VfM workbook. To complete the VfM workbook, you must complete the following steps: download the VfM workbook from question 21 you must upload the completed worksheet as an appendix to question 21 you must write 'Worksheet uploaded' as your response to this question follow the instructions in the workbook complete all tabs following the guidance in each worksheet enter data into the grey cells and select an option from a drop-down li

What is the case for public funding for this project? Explain why public funding is necessary to unlock your scale up and what would happen without it. Using the appendix to provide supporting evidence, explain: why your project cannot go ahead without this grant why your project cannot be funded internally or through other private sources, providing supporting evidence for example, notices of declined credit why this specific amount of grant funding is required, reference can be made to the financial summary table what would happen if your application was unsuccessful the decision making proc

What impact will this project have on investment into your UK businesses, and how have you quantified this? Demonstrate the financial commitment this project makes to the UK and any resultant impact in future research, development or capital investment over the ten years following the project. How have you estimated the required investment in R&D, skills, and capital for this project, and any follow on investment to commercialise the technology? You must: describe the total investment into the UK that will result from this project into research and development and capital Investment explain th

What will be the impact of this project on UK jobs created or safeguarded by the project? Were these a result of any post project R&D and manufacturing activities, and how have you quantified this? You must: summarise the jobs impacts that you forecast as a result of this project explain your calculations and the assumption you have made to quantify the number of jobs directly related to the project explain any jobs included in your VfM workbook that are the result of business expansion or post project R&D and manufacturing activity that is directly related to the project explain why the numbe

As applicable to your application, you must summarise, and provide further information regarding the vehicle sales and emissions reductions impacts that you have described in the Sales and Emissions section of the VfM workbook. You must, as applicable: justify the vehicles you have selected in the VfM workbook (vehicles 1 to 4) explain how you have quantified vehicle sales, what assumptions you have used in your sales forecast, and justify why the sales forecast is realistic explain why the comparator vehicles included in the VfM workbook are the best alternative for consumers by the time your

Summarise and provide information regarding the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission reductions impacts that you have described in the CO2 reductions section in the VfM workbook. You must: round any data entered into the VfM Workbook to the nearest 10 Tonnes per year; values lower than 10 tonnes per year are unlikely to have a measurable effect on the value for money calculation explain how these GHG reductions would not happen in the absence of scale up funding provide examples of suitable evidence, include an ISO Lifecycle Assessment Study (based on ISO14040/ISO14044), or an Environmental Product D

You must provide further evidence on the yearly production volumes that you have included in the VfM workbook. Explain: the expected production volumes enabled by this project and how they relate to its objectives how the facility will be utilised once the project is completed, including any plans for ongoing operations, expansion, or integration into wider supply chain activity and provide an overview of the production volumes planned specifically for the UK market, including forecasts and timelines, include letters of intent, memoranda of understanding, or other evidence of demand from poten

How will this project generate R&D spillovers beyond the lead applicant? Include details on: your plans for dissemination of findings for example, hosting talks, attending industry events, publishing papers how technologies or innovations may benefit organisations outside the delivery team, including cross sector applications in areas such as aerospace, defence, and energy any transferable capabilities, IP sharing opportunities, or mechanisms for knowledge exchange that support broader industrial impact Your answer can be up to 500 words long.

The National Wealth Fund (NWF) is the UK Government’s principal investor and policy bank, charged with deploying capital at scale in projects that support the government’s growth and clean energy missions. Acting in partnership with the private sector, and national, devolved and local governments, NWF can invest in capital intensive projects and companies to support government policy priorities, including the Industrial Strategy , Infrastructure Strategy and Clean Power 2030 Action Plan . Further information on NWF’s mandate, investment principles and product offering can be found on their web