# Public tenders Canonical results: https://zephior.com/tenders?categories=investment-management 1 matching notices. Page 1. Filter semantics: OR within a filter, AND across filters and text search. Omitted statuses use active defaults; [] includes all statuses. --- title: "Investment management services for the Scottish Universities Fund Ignition Strategy" canonical: "https://zephior.com/tenders/baee6b00-740d-46d8-a05e-2d31c72e26c3/investment-management-services-for-the-scottish-universities-fund-ignition-strategy" last-updated: 2026-10-12T14:25:54.941166+00:00 --- # Investment management services for the Scottish Universities Fund Ignition Strategy The Scottish National Investment Bank seeks an authorised investment manager to establish and manage a segregated £15 million mandate for its Scottish Universities Ignition Fund Strategy. Find a Tender reports an estimated procurement value of £6.5 million, a 3,600-day contract period and two possible 12-month extensions. Quality accounts for 80% and price 20%; bids close on 10 November 2026 at 12:00 UTC. - Status: open - Country: GB - Buyer: Scottish National Investment Bank - Submission deadline: 2026-11-10T12:00:00+00:00 (instant) - Original notice: https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/095775-2026 - Source checked: 2026-10-12T14:22:00Z ## Source-backed public facts ```json { "id": "baee6b00-740d-46d8-a05e-2d31c72e26c3", "revision": 1, "modifiedAt": "2026-10-12T14:25:54.941166+00:00", "sourceCheckedAt": "2026-10-12T14:22:00Z", "stale": false, "url": "https://zephior.com/tenders/baee6b00-740d-46d8-a05e-2d31c72e26c3/investment-management-services-for-the-scottish-universities-fund-ignition-strategy", "locale": "en", "title": "Investment management services for the Scottish Universities Fund Ignition Strategy", "summary": "The Scottish National Investment Bank seeks an authorised investment manager to establish and manage a segregated £15 million mandate for its Scottish Universities Ignition Fund Strategy. 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The Mandate forms one of two complementary investment strategies within the Scottish Universities Fund (\"SUF\"), a broader investment platform designed to support the creation, growth and long-term scaling of university-originated companies in Scotland.\nThe purpose of this Invitation to Tender (ITT) is to appoint an investment manager with delegated discretion to manage the Mandate in accordance with an agreed Investment Management Contract and the requirements set out in this ITT.\nProcurement value: GBP 6,500,000.00.\nContract period: 3,600 days. Renewal: 2 x 12 month extension periods.\nAward criteria: Quality 80%; price 20%.\nSubmission deadline: 2026-11-10T12:00:00Z.\nBuyer: Scottish National Investment Bank.\nAdditional notice information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.\nWithin the SPD, Tenderers should respond “yes” where they have been the subject of any enforcement action, restriction or other sanction or intervention by the Financial Conduct Authority or any other regulator and then provide an explanation in response to questions 3D10.1 to 3D10.4\nNOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=840049.\nThe buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx.\nSuppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.\nThe Contracting Authority does not intend to include a sub-contract clause as part of community benefits (as per Section 25 of the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014) in this contract for the following reason:\nThe Contracting Authority does not intend to include a sub-contract clause as part of community benefits (as per Section 25 of the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014) in this contract for the following reason:\nSub-Contracting is not a significant part of the overall anticipated contract spend.\nCommunity benefits are included in this requirement. 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