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...
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:
USL Toscana Sud-Est (Italy) has recently decided to join the European project STOP and GO (Sustainable Technology for Older People – Get Organised), one of the first Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI) pilot, co-founded by the European Commission under CIP-ICT-PSP-2013-7 (www.stopandgoproject.eu), that aims to foster the scaling up of innovative services enhanced by digital technologies in healthcare.
As the other public procurers of 4 European countries (Italy, Netherlands, Spain and...
Beste Hugo,
Bij HTM werken we al vele jaren met een erkenningsregeling, naar tevredenheid.
Wat jij gunningsdeel noemt, is waarschijnlijk de beslissing om een partij wel of niet toe te laten tot de erkenningsregeling. Hiervoor kun je alle standaard geschiktheidseisen hanteren (uitsluitingsgronden, financiële draagkracht, referenties, certificaten, etc.). Aan te raden is niet al te strenge eisen te stellen, omdat je dan de concurrentie te veel zou kunnen beperken.
Het is ook aan te raden...
The PPI4Waste project has issued its 4th newsletter!
In this issue you will learn more on the feasibility plan carried out for the core buyers and the buyers’ group of the project to uptake a collaborative PPI and to reduce risks associated to the uptake of PPI.
More details are also given on the upcoming PPI4Waste training opportunities and events.
If you haven’t received the newsletter, you can read it online on PPI4Waste website and make sure you subscribe to receive the next i...
Indeed, quite interesting.
I came accross this: http://gppbhutan.bt/3r-sustainability-and-circular-economy at your website.
What GPP examples already in place to you have?
best,
Piotr (www.eeb.org; www.makeresourcescount.eu)
One of the important support measures for the successful implementation of the GPP activities within the GreenS project is the undertaking of a series of webinars coordinated by GreenS partner ICLEI.
As a warm-up to the topic, the first two webinars focused on 'how to prepare a good GPP training package' (October 2015) and the "the magic of GPP" (March 2016). Following this introduction and baseline on key features of GPP, good practice examples and how to pack it in a regionally adapted trainin...
We, environmental NGOs in Romania, are glad that FSC took action against the illegal logging and huge deforestation process in our country ; one of the culprits are the Holzindustrie Schweghofer Company; unfortunately, the FSC decission allows Schweighofer to continue itys illegal activities for another three months; anyway, better late than never, my thanks to Mr John Hontelez (Petruta Moisi, Galati, Romania).
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