Open Innovation Exchange shortlisted for Cabinet Office project
As the xPRESS Digest reports - “Naked bid” group shortlisted for Innovation Exchange - our consortium bid has made it through to interviews next week.
A groundbreaking bid for a prestigious government contract, developed in open forum on the internet, has been shortlisted for interview next week by the Office of the Third Sector. A group led by RNUK Ltd’s CEO, Simon Berry, developed their bid to run the £1.2 million Innovation Exchange for the Office of the Third Sector, in the open and online, so that everyone interested could contribute ideas and comment; even competitors could see the bid develop at www.innovationexchange.net More than 500 people read the different elements of the bid as it developed and around 90 contributions were made and incorporated into the final submission.The approach has been praised by both contributors and observers alike, as an innovative, inclusive and open way to build a tender for an innovation project. The Office of the Third Sector has welcomed the resulting document as "very impressive" and the process has been nominated for the New Statesman's Modernising Government Award.
We now need to find out who else has been shortlisted. Anyone know? ... and also start rehearsing for the interview. That will involve a team meeting, but we also thought it might be in the spirit of things to do some of that in public too. More follows shortly.
Previously:
Update: we've started rehearsing for the interview - in public
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Fantastic news, David! Congratulations! Looking forward to seeing where things go next.
Posted by: Michele Martin | June 06, 2007 at 09:10 PM
Excellent news. Watching progress on this with interest.
Posted by: Jeremy Gould | June 07, 2007 at 07:47 AM