The event will take place on 7 December 2017 in Brussels, at the Committee of Regions and will officially launch the EU Cities for Fair and Ethical Trade Award.
The EU Cities for Fair and Ethical Trade Award is an initiative of the European Commission, which the Directorate-General for Trade (DG Trade) launched as a commitment of its "Trade for all" communication on trade and investment policy, published in 2015. The Award is part of EU’s efforts to raise awareness about how purchasing deci...
Nightingale has released a tender to develop the ‘ultimate patient monitor’.
Interested parties can access the tender at www.nightingale-h2020.eu/tender-documents
The Nightingale project team want to design wearable technology that can continuously monitor patients’ vital signs, including blood results and other clinical data, as well as ensuring early warning of actual deterioration in and out of hospital.
John Welch, a Consultant Nurse in Critical Care and senior member of the Nighti...
Shortly we will release 12 eafip showcase videos! They feature Public Procurers or Suppliers from across Europe who have successfully developed and implemented #innovation #procurement
The videos will shed light on how to successfully develop and implement an innovation procurement (PCP or PPI project) – from both the procurers’ and the suppliers’ point of view.
Stay tuned! More information will shortly follow at http://eafip.eu/resources/videos/
On November 18, 2017 the prior information notice (P.I.N.) for the project STARS has been published in the European Tenders Electronic Daily. The STARS pre-commercial procurement aims to find solutions for Empowering Patients by Professional Stress Avoidance and Recovery Services.
More details are available on:
http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:462645-2017:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0
The First Open Market Consultation (OMC) will be held in Ancona-Italy the 18...
Dear all,
We would like to share with you the November edition of the EU GPP News Alert.
This month’s issue opens with a factual overview of the European Commission’s latest proposals, published on 8 November, governing public procurement of clean vehicles. The proposals, once approved by co-legislators, will replace the current Clean Vehicles Directive (2009/33/EC).
This GPP News Alert edition also includes insights on what’s happening on green procurement in Estonia, in light of...
Presenting at this conference in Barcelona 14/15 December 2017 on Public Procurement of Innovation
The next webinar of the EU GPP Helpdesk will take place on 29 November 2017 (14.30-16.00, Brussels time) and will focus on the newly updated EU GPP Criteria for Furniture. Details about the new GPP guidance (scope, environmental ‘hot spots’, proposed solutions, etc.) for this product area will be complemented by a selection of good practice experiences, including Procura+ Awards Winner NHS Wales and the City of Wageningen.
Hi everyone
As you might have seen, the proposal for the new Clean Vehicles Directive has been published (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=CELEX:52017PC0653), and obviously contains quite a few talking points. It would be good to get some people’s responses on some of these.
Forum members following the international climate conference COP23 in Bonn may have seen that the Global Lead City Network on Sustainable Procurement held an event at the Cities and Regions pavilion on Saturday 11 November.
Some of the targets announced by the 14 member cities are very ambitious and potentially game-changing for the city implementing them. Budapest, for example has agreed and presented the following targets:
The European project InnProBio launched an online toolbox for bio-based procurement in the public sector. The toolbox is designed to assist public buyers considering alternatives to plastics produced from fossil fuel based materials. The toolbox includes an online database of bio-based products and suppliers, good practice examples, procurement instruments and standard tender text blocks. The toolbox is available in English, German, Dutch and Polish.
The toolbox is meant to be a starting po...
Gracias Aure!
I have developed a method that can support and strongly enhance public procurement for innovation, by detecting and specifying real, underlying needs. It is based on a technique called ‘Problem Detection Study – PDS’
Can you be more specific and to give us some insights thoughts or even to describe your method to see if we can apply it at our own jobs ?
Thank you.
On 11/10/2017 the prior information notice for the project ANTI-SUPERBUGS has been published in the European Tenders Electronic Daily. The ANTI–SUPERBUGS pre-commercial procurement aims to improve the quality of care processes in hospital and the reduction of both the costs and the collateral effects provoked by Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms (MDROs, otherwise known as Superbugs) and other Health Associated Infections (HAIs) pathogens, through the development and testing of prototypes of devic...
Good news.
Check out the topics, budgets and call deadlines for the 124 million EURO of Horizon 2020 funding for innovation procurements in 2018-2019. Funding opportunities are foreseen for pre-commercial procurements (PCPs) and public procurements of innovative solutions (PPIs) in different fields: health, security, energy and ICT (call open to any area of public interest that needs innovative solutions).
Overview of all calls and more info here: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/call...
LGA has just published this report which considers how we can be more proactive in considering innovation through our procurement processes. Comments very welcome!
Few places remaining for the eafip Workshop on innovation procurement in public construction!
Register now to secure your place https://goo.gl/bJb1Ys
In the run-up to the end of year festivities, we are excited to bring you new sessions and speakers for the eafip Workshop on innovation procurement in public construction which will be held in the Prague City Hall in Prague, Czech Republic, on 14th November 2017.
The agenda now includes sessions by eafip experts on:
The 1st Ad-hoc Work Group (AHWG) meeting for the EU GPP criteria for Public Space Maintenance will take place on Wednesday 15th November 2017 at the JRC – Directorate Growth and Innovation premises in Sevilla, Spain.
The meeting will discuss the background research, proposed scope and activity groups as well as initial criteria proposals detailed in the Technical Report with the objective of agreeing on basis for the further development of the criteria. The report is available at: htt...
Yet another chance to apply for eafip Assistance!! You now have until the 15th November to fill-in the application form and get invaluable help for your PCP/PPI project!
This hands-on eafip Assistance is the perfect way to kick-start your innovation procurement. The Assistance is financed by the European Commission and comes at no charge to you.
The eafip initiative has so far provided Assistance to seven success stories across the EU, learn more about them at http://eafip.e...
Kenniscentrum Europa decentraal zoekt op korte termijn tijdelijk een senior juridisch adviseur. Dit in verband met zwangerschapsverlof van een medewerker gedurende de eerste helft van 2018. Het hoofddossier betreft aanbestedingsregelgeving. Daarnaast is kennis op het gebied van vrij verkeer, de dienstenrichtlijn, mededingingsrecht en sociale zaken en werkgelegenheid een pré.
Detachering, bij voorkeur vanuit een decentrale overheid, behoort met nadruk tot de mogelijkheden.
Zie hier voor mee...
Prominent MED aims at promoting the use of innovative public procurement procedures (PPI) in small municipalities in the Mediterranean area. In Italy, the pilot investment will be implemented in a kindergarden in the Municipality of Narni Scalo and it will be focused on the application of innovative solutions for seismic adaptation, energy saving, and improvement of the learning environment for pupils.
To present the process to be used in the market consultation (which will take place in Nove...
specially on regional and local levels(island regions), concerning thr SME`s and market economy issues, better knowledge how to recycle materials and waste, financing process(also circular economy)... human behaviour also ... thanks for Congress livestream and information
Projects involving recycled textiles, eco-labelled school buildings and remanufactured furniture emerged as Europe's most sustainable and innovative public procurements at the 2017 Procura+ Awards held last night (17 October) in Tallinn as part of the eafip Conference on Innovation Procurement. The winning public procurers were:
Municipality of Hyvinkää, Finland: Sustainable Procurement of the Year was awarded to the first Nordic Swan eco-labelled pre-school in Finland, which was constructed af...
A budget of about 3.8 million euro for the development of innovative applications of virtual and augmented reality applications for people with Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC).
This is the subject of the new call for tenders published the 1st of October by the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) in collaboration with the Agency for Digital Italy (AgID) within pre-commercial procurement: the funding instrument that aims at providing services with high technological va...
Dear Stanislav,
below is a link to the transposition measures available on EurLex, on the page for each EU instrument (under the "National transposition" section) :
I hope that helps - good luck with the research!