A recent grant letter from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) to HEFCE means that HEFCE has to give careful consideration as to how funding reductions arising from the grant letter will be passed on to the organisations they fund. In the light of the grant letter, HEFCE has asked that JISC make no further commitments of capital funds ahead of the HEFCE board meeting on 28 January 2010 at which decisions on funding allocations will be made.
With this in mind, JISC is postponing all current capital funded calls and invitations to tender (ITTs) from 5 January 2010, pending the HEFCE board decision and will regrettably not be issuing any new capital funded calls or ITTs until the funding situation is clearer. What this means is that any capital funded ITT or funding call which has been issued but for which grant letters have not yet been issued, will be put on hold until after the HEFCE board meeting on 28 January 2010.
The ITTs and calls which are affected by this announcement are:
Managing research data grant funding call 14/09
Developing community content grant funding call 13/09 – this postponement relates to strand 2 of this call only, please note that strand 1 of this call is unaffected.
If you have questions about whether a bid to an ITT or call you are working on at the moment is affected by this announcement, please email funding@jisc.ac.uk
