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SVI News
Sustainable
Ventures Inc. - New Service Offering
Background
Sustainable
Ventures Inc. (SVI) has responded to a growing need in the Canadian clean
technology market with the launch of a new service. SVI offers clients a
comprehensive ‘Sustainable
Project Review’, designed to equip clean technology
enterprises with the requisite information and skills to successfully
prepare submissions which attract public funds to their projects.
SVI
understands the challenges faced by clean technology developers to both
raise investments for projects which prove out their technologies, and,
deal with the day to day operational issues directing a company in a
highly competitive market. With this in mind, and their experience
reviewing the business plans of more than 1300 Canadian clean technology
enterprises, the partners of SVI have developed a process which optimizes
the potential for securing public funding support. The ‘Sustainable Project Review’
process assists clean technology entrepreneurs in framing and presenting
their project proposals. In short, the process provides clients with a
forum, project checklist, evaluation criteria, critical audience, and
rationale, which contribute to a robust assessment of the relative
strengths of proposed projects.
Services
The
SVI team will review the submissions for public funding to help our
clients strengthen their business case, value proposition and ultimately,
their proposal. Our expertise in understanding investment criteria of
public funders is a result of our collective exposure to a high volume of
clean technology deal flow. The following table illustrates the steps,
roles, activities and deliverables of the ‘Sustainable Project Review’:
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Steps
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Timing
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Roles
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Activities
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Deliverables
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Register as needed with funder
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Client registers
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Client confirms registration with
SVI
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Confirmation and date of
registration
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Complete draft application,
statement of interest, application
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Minimum of 10 business days prior to
due date of submission
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Client to prepare and email to SVI
in pdf
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SVI preliminary assessment of
submission
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SVI to confirm receipt of submission
and set date for client receipt of assessment
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Review client submission
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Minimum of 7 business days prior to
due date of submission
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SVI lead
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SVI team to conduct roundtable to
review against respective evaluation criteria
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Summary of evaluation criteria
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Complete and deliver assessment of
client submission
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Minimum of 3 business days prior to
due date of submission
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SVI lead Client revises submission
and submits
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SVI to document gaps and outstanding
issues
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One page ‘Sustainable Project
Report’
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Fees
The fixed firm price for services described is
$2500 exclusive of GST. Additional services may be negotiated during the
conduct of the contract.
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