STAR Independent Consultants Limited

Bid Preparation and Project Management

Preparing successful funding bids on behalf of our clients to secure financial support from regional, national and European sources. STAR provides technical advice and support to enable our clients to design and deliver tailored local transport projects on time and to budget.

We are able to offer assistance in:

• Preparing bids for transport funding on behalf of UK local authorities
• Providing project management services to UK local authorities to enable such schemes to be implemented
• Preparing proposals to fund EU transport research and demonstration projects and secure regional structural funding
• Project managing EU-funded transport research and demonstration projects under contract to UK local authorities

Recent projects include:

Sustainable Travel City Bid

• Preparing a Sustainable Travel City bid of £15m on behalf of Nottingham City Council which was shortlisted for funding
• Undertaking professional stakeholder consultation and leading a group discussion with interested parties to assist in refining the bid
• Developing a comprehensive, tightly focused and succinct bidding document

 

Access Alliance Programme

• Acting as Managing Agent for 4 years (2006-2010) of this £1.1m scheme funded by emda to stimulate the development of sustainable transport schemes
• Commissioning, funding and monitoring of 50 sustainable transport schemes to link residents with employment and training opportunities
• Delivering a series of project outputs including economic outputs, improving social inclusion, improving social cohesion, creating modal shift in favour of green modes, reduction in carbon footprints, greater partnership working and greater local community engagement

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