Check out the yearly update about the results of the first 15 Pre-Commercial Procurements funded by FP7 and H2020 that are already procuring or have already finished procuring:
Don’t miss your chance! Do you have a concrete interest in conducting an innovation procurement project? If so, take just 5 to 10 minutes to fill-in the eafip Assistance Application form to find out if you can benefit from the aid of experts in the field of innovation procurement – for FREE! http://eafip.eu/assistance/
Contractmanagement speelt een belangrijke rol bij het gehele proces van het tot stand komen van de contracten tot en met het managen van de leveranciersprestaties. Hieronder valt onder andere: het opstellen van een programma van eisen, KPI`s formuleren, contractafspraken maken, het opstellen van een dienstverleningsovereenkomst, beoordeling geleverde kwaliteit etc.
Wij zoeken een stevige Contractmanager met ervaring in het beheren en uitnutten van facilitaire contracten. Ook zoeken wij iemand d...
Today, the SELECT for Cities Initiative launches its call to support the development of an Internet-of-Everything (IoE) platform for open innovation in Europe. Selected organisations will receive support and funding from EUR 36,000 up to EUR 800,000 each. The grants are funded by three cities – Antwerp, Copenhagen and Helsinki - with support from the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme.
To learn more about the innovation competition and access the tender documents please visit www.sele...
The Digital Health & Wellness Summit 2017 (DHWS17) attendees have the great opportunity to attend the final event of this EU project, which will be held the 1st of March during the MWC in Barcelona.
DECIPHER invites people, organisations, companies and decision makers interested in Innovation Procurement and health services, to participate to the seminar on lessons learnt by the Pre-Commercial Procurement in mHealth. This is the final seminar of DECIPHER PCP project and it introduces the expe...
Together with four European hospitals, the UMC Utrecht will start a pre-commercial procurement (PCP) collaboration named ‘Nightingale’. Companies are being challenged to develop technology for remotely monitoring the vital signs of patients leaving the intensive care unit. An immediate alert to care providers in the event of a deterioration of the patient's situation can prevent serious complications and be life-saving. The European Union is setting aside €5.3 million for developing an inn...
Thanks José Alberto. I've uploaded the final recommendations here. I guess we'll need to see some regulatory changes before these can be taken up on a larger scale (except in Finland it appears).
Simon
If you are starting with Green Public Procurement in your organisation and would like to get some further information on specific aspects of GPP, don't miss the series of Webinars that took place in the framework of the project GreenS.
You can access the webinars at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv-mhCFisOsUvT0HrAcNuanJHL9QqfWKk
Here is what you will find:
1- How to prepare a good GPP training package
2- Introducing GPP – The magic of GPP
3- Legal aspe...
Launch your own innovation procurement - call for applications for eafip free Assistance open until 14th February! It helps local and central governments to provide tax payers with the best possible quality services whilst saving costs.
Apply now and be one of the 12 public procurers to received the eafip free Assistance financed by the European commission! http://eafip.eu/assistance/
Watch the eafip video to find out the best practices employed by ASFiNAG PCP on their development of the innovation procurement which led to "On the way" traffic app. It provides free traffic information in a simple and easy-to-use format http://eafip.eu/resources/videos/
The Water PiPP EU-founded project has compiled its final policy recommendations to the European Innovation Partnership on Water (EIP Water).
The Policy Recommendation to the EIP document explains that innovation oriented public procurement is a demand side innovation policy instrument that have to be based on the good understanding of the challenges at the organisational level and the understanding of the public need. Based on these findings the Water PiPP project consortium made 8 policy...
Check out the Horizon 2020 participant portal. There are several calls open now with submission deadlines in 2017 that offer EU funding to procurers and other stakeholders from different countries to prepare (and implement) upcoming innovation procurements in collaboration:
PCP actions (co-finance at 90% the actual purchase of R&D to get new innovative solutions developed and tested, plus at 90+25% related coordination and networking costs)
EPP-eHealth, an EU-funded project that set out to transform the market for eHealth solutions through dialogue and innovation procurement, has created a network of procuring organisations in healthcare. They also published Joint Statements of Unmet Needs, a Public Procurement of Innovative solutions (PPI) Strategy for eHealth and mapped out EU initiatives and funding opportunities. Find out more: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/epp-ehealth-final-results-take-ehealth-procureme...
Public consultation on the revision of the Clean Vehicles Directive is open until 24 March 2017
https://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/sustainable/consultations/2016-clean-vehicles_en
The THALEA PCP project (Telemedicine for Intensive Care Units) was implemented by 5 EU countries in just 1 year and a half! Find out what best practices they employed, the benefits of their approach or the struggles they faced at the link http://eafip.eu/resources/videos/
Dear all,
Following on the previous post on the new GPP Programme of the Basque Country 2020 ( https://procurement-forum.eu/view/discussion/1868848/new-gpp-programme-of-the-basque-country-2020), I'm glad to inform you that the GPP Programme is now also available in English.
Those that might be interested in having a look at its content, please find it here attached. For more information, please don’t hesitate to contact Gorane Ibarra (gorane.ibarra@ihobe.eus).
Best regards and as this...
Why not start the New Year with an eafip Workshop? Public procurers, do not hesitate to join us on the 17th May in Berlin, Germany at the eafip Workshop for Education, Culture & Religion sectors to discuss unmet procurement needs, innovation concepts, project ideas, and much more! http://eafip.eu/events/workshops/education/
Langs deze weg de vraag of iemand, werkzaam bij een Hogeschool, de aanbesteding "Technische ge- en verbruikersartikelen" heeft uitgevoerd. Indien dit het geval is kom ik graag met u in contact om te bespreken welke productgroepen u hier onder heeft gebracht.
Als onderzoeker bij de SERV Stichting Innovatie & Arbeid maakte ik een studie rond innovatief & duurzaam aanbesteden met daarbij enkele tips om KMO’s beter bij aanbestedingen te betrekken. U vindt meer info en linken naar mijn publicatie op onze website http://www.serv.be/stichting/kennisdocument/innovatief-en-duurzaam-aanbesteden-vlaanderen
Hierna worden een aantal voorbeelden gegeven van mogelijke acties t.a.v. KMO’s.
The UrbanWINS team has issued its first project newsletter. You can read it here.
If you would like to receive Issue #2, please subscribe by sending an e-mail to: urbanwinscremona@comune.cremona.it (indicating your name and e-mail address).
UrbanWINS – Urban metabolism accounts for building Waste management Innovative Networks and Strategies – will develop and implement eco-innovative strategic plans for waste prevention and management that will boost urban environmental resilienc...
On behalf of the 2017 Planning Committee, I'd like to invite you to participate in SPLC's Summit, May 8-10 in Denver, Colorado by:
We look forward to having you be part of the event!
Best,
Cuchulain
ck@sustainablepurchasing.org
Sorry, Dutch only.
Beste lezer,
Allereerst een gelukkig nieuwjaar gewenst! Voor mijn afstudeeronderzoek (TU Delft, MSc. Construction Management & Engineering i.s.m. AT Osborne) naar het innovatiepartnerschap ben ik op zoek naar mensen die de procedure kennen, het bestudeerd hebben of er mee hebben gewerkt. Ik heb een vragenlijst gemaakt waarin ik aan de hand van 40 stellingen een deel van de bevindingen die ik uit de literatuur heb gehaald toets aan de praktijk. Dus bent u bekend met he...
EURECA is a EC funded H2020 project related to ICT and procurement by Public Sector organisations, with a specific focus on supporting PPI/PCP for environmentally sound data center and ICT solutions. Based on input from both industry and public sector the project has created a framework and tool which is ready to be used for free and is targeting support on
Last December, members of the “Bio-based products and services – InnProBio project” group posted five new posts on the topic that might be of interest to you. In short:
Beste Winny,
Onder andere GGD Gelderland-Zuid zal in 2017 meedoen aan een gezamenlijke aanbesteding. Externe expertise wordt ingehuurd. Mocht je interesse hebben neem dan even contact op dan zorg ik ervoor dat je in contact komt met de organisatoren.
Vriendelijke groet,
Armand Wolthof (armand.wolthof@vrgz.nl)