30 Oct British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme (BICS)
The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) is seeking to support 10,000 businesses with the British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme (BICS), with applications concluding on 30 November.
BIST are encouraging interested businesses to begin the process as soon as possible to allow sufficient time to prepare and submit their applications, as some steps may take a few days.
BIST have received feedback from their operational team that some applications could benefit from providing greater detail regarding evidence of manufacturing activity and showing how this relates to eligible products. The MIA encourages interested businesses to review the business guidance and examples British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme: business guidance – GOV.UK and Annex B: British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme example free-text statements – GOV.UK before submitting.
The department will be running two further webinars in November. These webinars can be registered for here:
Wednesday 04th November: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/38bda83c-494d-4cfc-bd8f-84d855508c0f@8fa217ec-33aa-46fb-ad96-dfe68006bb86
Tuesday 17th November: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3fee725f-4833-4048-b23b-1796b63c0dd9@8fa217ec-33aa-46fb-ad96-dfe68006bb86