Promoting Innovation through Public Procurement: Best Practice & Networking - 23-24 March 2010
The conference aimed to promote a connected community of stakeholders and identify possible joint actions to support innovation through public procurement. To start building a European critical mass in this field, there is a need to facilitate the networking and exchanging of best practice among public procurers, policy makers and relevant stakeholders.
Agenda and other downloads
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Agenda of the conference
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Key policy declaration [24 KB] - Opening speech of Ms Françoise Le Bail, Deputy Director General, DG Enterprise and Industry
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Main outcomes of the conference [161 KB]
Media coverage
- Euractiv article
- Euroalert
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European Voice - "Immediate impact on innovation" by Malcolm Harbour, Member of the European Parliament, President of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Presentations
23 March 2010:
LCB-Healthcare project: A European network of public procurers for low carbon healthcare buildings [35 KB] - Fergus Harradence (Department for Business Innovation & Skills, UK)
Innovation in Public Procurement: the Finnish example for supporting public procurers [649 KB] - Mika Lautanala (TEKES, FI)
Best practice on organizing a supply chain: bio products for school canteens [56 KB] - Richard Julian (City of Lille, FR)
Joint procurement methodology [4 MB] - Alvaro Oliveira (Alfamicro, PT)
New support mechanism for Pre-commercial Procurements [366 KB] - Lieve Bos (DG Information Society and Media)
EIB: Possibilities for EIB loans for joint PCP [706 KB] - Harald Gruber (Head of Division, Projects Directorate, EIB)
Hungarian example on how to setting up a PCP project through cohesion funds? [243 KB] - Barbara Berde (RAPIDE Project, HU)
Developing a European community of procurement stakeholders - the importance of effective networking [536 KB] - Mark Hidson (ICLEI, GE)
The EU Public Procurement platform: plans for the future [462 KB] - Marieke van Putten (PIANOo, NL)
Commission support to joint procurement of clean vehicles [58 KB] - Carlos Garcia (DG Mobility and Transport)
Green Public Procurement, which best tools for action? [111 KB] - Pavel Misiga (DG Environment)
Organising effective dialogue between the private and public sector [95 KB] - Kate Shaw (Group Buyer - Strategic Procurement & Commissioning, UK)
Promoting an effective stakeholder dialogue in Public Procurement [219 KB] - Isa-Maria Bergman (Motiva, FI)
Setting up cross border PCP projects: experiences from areas such as ICT for transport, healthcare and energy - Chair: Lieve Bos (DG Information Society and Media) & discussant: Suvi Kempainen (Culminatum, FI)
How to bridge the gap between public procurers and innovative SMEs? [215 KB] - Emmanuel Leprince (Comité Richelieu, FR)
How to bridge the gap between public procurers and innovative SMEs? [2 MB] – Collan Murray (Transport for London, UK)
Towards a Life Cycle Costing approach in public procurement [3 MB] - John Connaughton (DAVIS LANGDON LLP, UK)
Forward commitment procurement [367 KB] - Fergus Harradence & Gaynor Whyles (Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, UK)
How much public procurement of innovation is there? Can we measure it & set targets? [2 MB] - Keith Sequeira (DG Enterprise and Industry)
Risk management in procurement of innovation [153 KB] - Patrick McCutcheon (DG RTD) & Max Rolfstam (University of Southern Denmark, DK)
Opportunities in transport for joint public procuremen -: Chair: Sylvain Haon (Polis, BE), & discussants: Rasmus Lindholm (Project Manager for GSC and ERTICO, BL) and Kenneth Mc Leod (TIE, UK)
24 March 2010
Services for awarding authorities [197 KB] – Angelika Hoess (Auftragsberatungszentrum Bayern e.V.)
The Enterprise Europe Network and Public Procurement Services [446 KB] – Daniele Gassman (EACI)
SMEs and Public Procurement – How we help SMEs to benefit from the opportunities of the public sector [188 KB] – Dolores Adamski (Chambre de Commerce et de l'Industrie Grenoble)
