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Secure Software for Resilient Growth

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £5 million for collaborative projects that enable adoption of the Government’s Software Security Code of Practice to drive growth of secure and resilient software supply chains.

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In Short

Funding Available Funding Available

£250,000 - £750,000

Project Duration Project Duration

12 and 18 months

Application Deadline Application Deadline

Wednesday 29 April 2026

Themes

Your project can focus on one or more of the following:

  • tools, techniques and systems to accelerate or incentivise adoption, implementation and assurance of the SSCoP
  • engagement, training and communicating to drive adoption of SSCoP across both the supply chain and customers
  • enabling, informing and upskilling procurement professionals and specifiers to drive adoption through contracts and negotiations
  • tools, data, metrics and testing that use the SSCoP to improve understanding of the cyber resilience of complex software systems
  • tools, data, measurements and techniques that accelerate or automate SSCoP compliance or assurance
  • enabling integration or translation of the SSCoP into sectors and supply chains such as energy infrastructure, defence, advanced connectivity, transport
  • development of automated analysis tools and techniques for SSCoP compliance of AI generated code
  • developing measurable and reproducible uses of AI to aid compliance to the SSCoP
  • mapping of SSCoP to pre-existing frameworks or standards such as ISO27001, Cyber Assessment Framework, NIS2, ETSI TS104223, SLSA, etc
  • development of sector-specific guidance and tools, especially for non-cyber experts, to help in supplier management
  • enabling or demonstrating SSCoP adherence and adoption in cloud CI/CD pipelines
  • enabling market differentiation for SSCoP compliant vendors

Eligibility

Your project must: have total eligible costs of between £250,000 and £10 million for a pharmaceutical, MedTech or digital intervention; last between 24 and 36 months; start on 1 December 2026 and end by 30 November 2029. Any funded organisation needs to carry out their project work in the UK and must intend to exploit the project results from or in the UK. To lead a collaborative project your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size.

Our Approach

The UK team has a strong track record in securing some of the most competitive national and European grants on behalf of its clients, with a full understanding of how a project should be presented to stand the highest chance of success. Each year in the UK alone, we are responsible for the submission of more than 100 funding applications across all sectors and priority areas. Based on this extensive experience, through careful project selection and using key insight into how a project should be best positioned, we consistently achieve success rates that are more than 5 times the typical success rates for UK national schemes and EU programmes.

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