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GovTech Catalyst

Guidance for the public sector about the GovTech Catalyst fund and how to apply to it.

The GovTech Catalyst uses a £20 million fund to pay suppliers to solve public sector problems using innovative digital technology.

The public sector propose complex problems (or ‘challenges’) that up to 5 suppliers are funded to work on for 3 months. If results are promising, up to 2 of those suppliers will continue to work on it for a year.

Find out more about how GovTech Catalyst works.

What is GovTech Catalyst

How to get GovTech Catalyst funding

How to run a GovTech Catalyst project

Current GovTech Catalyst projects

GovTech Catalyst privacy notice

Updates to this page

Published 21 May 2018
Last updated 28 March 2019 show all updates
  1. News stories added on latest Round 3 challenges.

  2. Added a link to the news story announcing the smart tracking of waste across the UK GovTech Catalyst competition winners.

  3. The latest challenge opportunity - to better detect illicit goods arriving in letters and parcels to the UK - has been added to round 2.

  4. The most recent challenge opportunity to open - to develop data-enabled approaches to support public sector audits - has been added to round 2.

  5. Round 3 webinar transcript added.

  6. Firefighter challenge 6 news story added.

  7. Challenge submission news story for round 3 added.

  8. Round 2 successful challenges added.

  9. Round 1 fourth challenge competition - cutting traffic congestion - added.

  10. Added news item on Combating rural isolation challenge launch

  11. We have added a range of new information about the smart waste tracking digital challenge.

  12. First published.