Skip to main content
Steer Home

Main navigation

  • About
    • Our people
  • Sectors
  • Services
  • Projects
  • Insights
    • News
    • The Review
  • Careers
    • Job opportunities
    • Working at Steer Economic Development
    • Graduates
  • Contact
Toggle navigation

Main navigation

  • About
    • Our people
  • Sectors
  • Services
  • Projects
  • Insights
    • News
    • The Review
  • Careers
    • Job opportunities
    • Working at Steer Economic Development
    • Graduates
  • Contact
  1. Home
  2. Our projects
  3. Drafting support for i-Reach Strategic Outline Case to Belfast City deal
Queens University Belfast

Drafting support for i-Reach Strategic Outline Case to Belfast City deal

Steer Economic Development was commissioned by Queen’s University Belfast to provide economic forecasting and bid-writing support to its five case Strategic Outline Case, which was seeking £50 million from the Belfast City Deal.

The bid was for investment in i-REACH, a mixed-use facility forming the centre of Northern Ireland’s R&D and commercial clinical trials offering. The facility proposed to co-locate academic, NHS/Health Care, and business focused on Life Science R&D in offices, lab, and incubation/co-production spaces.

Steer Economic Development’s case-making support involved the following workstreams:

  • Developing a robust quantitative evidence base for the Economic and Financial Cases to demonstrate the feasibility and Value for Money represented by the new facility;
  • Drafting the Management and Commercial Cases based on Steer Economic Development’s bid-making experience and understanding of ‘what works’ in operating such facilities;
  • Providing critical review and drafting of the Strategic Case, and critical review of the assumptions underpinning the Financial Case;
  • Responding to initial comments from external Deal Reviewers in Whitehall, and developing the case for further bidding rounds; and
  • Meeting with the client in Northern Ireland to discuss development and options.

Steer Economic Development was recommissioned to further support QUB to progress the bid to the next stage of City Deal funding approval.

On
Contact an expert

Simon Pringle

Director
[email protected]
SP

©2025 Steer

  • Linkedin

Back to top

Footer

  • Sitemap
  • Policies
  • Contact
  • Cookie settings

© 2023. SEE TERMS OF USE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
WWW.STEER-ED.COM IS A SITE OPERATED BY STEER DAVIES & GLEAVE LIMITED TRADING AS STEER. WE ARE REGISTERED IN ENGLAND UNDER COMPANY NUMBER 1883830 AND HAVE OUR REGISTERED OFFICE AT 14-21 RUSHWORTH STREET, LONDON, SE1 0RB, UK. 
OUR UK VAT NUMBER IS 468 9355 87. FIND US ON COMPANIES HOUSE.