Contract opportunities
Find out about contract opportunities to support Wellcome's mission to improve human health – including an overview of each project, who can apply and how.
At Wellcome, we invite organisations to apply for contract opportunities that support our mission to fund discovery research and find solutions to three worldwide health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate.
We spend millions each year across a range of goods and services, including professional services, media commissions, landscape reports, research reports, equipment, software and outsourced service providers.
Here, you can find all our requests for proposals (RFPs) – including an overview of each project, who can apply and how.
Wellcome and Fondation Botnar are partnering on an RFP to deliver a landscape analysis on mental health in 22 countries. We hope this analysis will help us to understand the status of mental health science, policy and practice around the world, which both Wellcome and Fondation Botnar will use to shape our respective strategies.
Mental health problems are holding people back in all parts of the world, with these conditions set to become the largest burden of disease by 2030. To address this challenge, we need to speed up research to understand mental health better, as well as develop prevention and treatment approaches that are more effective and personalised.
We’re especially interested in suppliers who have experience working on mental health and conducting landscape reviews.
Eligibility: Open to all countries
Initial response deadlines:
Expression of interest – 10 May 2022
Proposal submission – 3 June 2022
We are looking to collaborate with a supplier to co-develop and co-design a set of inclusive research design and practice principles, guidelines, and case studies that will be used internally to
help us achieve our goal to fund more research that is inclusive in design and practice.
Eligibility: Open to all countries
Initial response deadline: 10 May 2022
The Data for Science and Health team aims to ensure trustworthy data science transforms how science solves the urgent health challenges facing everyone. To achieve this, we support projects that produce innovative tools using health data, motivate and equip data scientists, and build trust into how data science is funded, governed and practiced. For example, we recently announced an open call for researchers and software developers to build and contribute open-source software tools that can further Wellcome’s cross-cutting vision to address the escalating burden of infectious disease due to climate change.
The call is awarding funding to researchers to develop modelling tools for Climate Sensitive Infectious Diseases (CSID). This RFP complements the CSID call by building a wider community of practice (CoP) around CSID methods. We are looking to appoint a ‘convenor’ that can build this CoP for CSID modelling.
Eligibility: Open to all countries
Initial response deadline: 23 May 2022
Wellcome sees longitudinal datasets as a critical resource to help researchers advance to understanding how brain, body and environment interact in the trajectory and resolution of each of these conditions: anxiety, depression and psychosis.
Wellcome believes that such understanding is a vital step to finding new and improved ways to predict, identify and intervene as early as possible in these conditions, in ways that reflect the priorities and needs of those who experience them. Thus, we want to identify the most promising large-scale longitudinal datasets across the globe that can be used for research in this field.
Eligibility: Open to all countries
Initial response deadline: 19 May 2022
We’re looking to commission a team to identify and evaluate the properties, strengths, and weaknesses of selected measures for depression, anxiety and psychosis and to produce a toolkit for their use by researchers, funders and journals. The team will also produce an implementation plan to encourage the uptake of common metrics by key stakeholder groups.
Eligibility: Open to all countries
Initial response deadline: 5 May 2022
Download the full RFP [PDF 573KB]
Watch a recording of our webinar from 11 April 2022 to find out more.
We are looking to collaborate with a supplier to co-develop and co-design a set of inclusive research design and practice principles, guidelines, and case studies that will be used internally to
help us achieve our goal to fund more research that is inclusive in design and practice.
Eligibility: Open to all countries
Initial response deadline: 10 May 2022
We aim to make our RFPs open to all organisations, however there will be instances where we provide eligibility criteria based on the specific nature of what we are looking to procure. Please see each opportunity for specific eligibility criteria.
Please send in your proposals electronically and refer to the individual RFP documents above for specific timelines and response requirements.
Here, you can find some of our previous RFPs that have now expired, including an overview of each project, to enable suppliers to understand the format and structure.
We’re looking to appoint a bold and creative agency/consultant to determine how we can best use photography to advance our brand and strategy. As well as reviewing the effectiveness of Wellcome Photography Prize as a vehicle for our brand, we need to better understand how our audiences respond to photography and how to ensure the imagery we use reflects our commitment to diversity and inclusion.
Eligibility: Open to all countries
Initial response deadline: Closed
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