Innovation Procurement

Are you a public buyer that could use some help in preparing and implementing your next innovation procurement? Get in touch with the European Assistance for Innovation Procurement (EAFIP) to request local assistance now. Public buyers from all thematic fields are welcome: for example public transport, healthcare, environment, water, energy, public administration, construction, security, education etc. Next deadline for submission of applications: 11 January 2021

The TIQUE Buyers Group of healthcare providers from Spain, Italy and Sweden have identified a common need for the transformation of health and care services for patients with advanced heart failure and co-existing chronic conditions, frail or at risk of becoming frail. They invite potentially interested bidders to participate in the open market consultation of their upcoming pre-commercial procurement that aims to develop and test integrated care approaches to treatment for those patients. The consultation takes place in the form of online meetings between 7 October and 4 November 2021.

A group of healthcare buyers from Sweden, Norway and Spain invites potentially interested bidders to participate in the open market consultation for their upcoming Carematrix pre-commercial procurement. Objective is to trigger testing and development of new solutions to anticipate and address the needs of people suffering from multimorbititiy, by ensuring timely service access, co-managed care journeys and transitions between specialties and sectors. The open market consultation takes place as a combination of an RFI, questionnaire and webinars between November-December 2021.

A buyers group from Scotland and Spain invites interested operators to submit tenders for their EuropeWave pre-commercial procurement. The aim is to accelerate the design, development, and demonstration of cost-effective wave energy converter (WEC) systems to produce clean electricity, advance promising designs for wave energy converter systems to a point from which they are ready to proceed to a first of a kind commercial-scale design and testing programme and commercial exploitation through other national/regional programmes and/or private sector investment.

The Brussels intercommunal transport operator, MIVB-STIB, invites interested bidders to submit offers for its Muntstroom pre-commercial procurement. The aim is to develop novel data driven solutions for smart predictive monitoring of people flows, outdoor as well as indoor. A Living Lab is envisaged for testing the solutions in the Brussels Capital Region. Solutions are needed for the Collection, Combination, Storage, Analysis of and Smart Access to people flow-data. Register to the 28/9/21 webinar for more information about the call for tenders. Deadline for submission of offers: 29/10/2021.Deadline for submission of offers: 29/10/2021.

The Canarias islands government has launched a prior announcement for its MEDP-BIG DATA pre-commercial procurement, which aims to create to a "big data for personalized medicine" system. This includes two challenges: a direct information exchange interface - assisted by an artificial intelligence bot - patient / healthcare system - and a clinical decision support system of each individualized and stratified patient; both supported on an intelligent platform that serves both the care of the specific patient and the generation of scientific knowledge for collective use. Aim is to improve diagnosis, treatment and research in chronic, oncological, degenerative and rare diseases, either for emergencies or flow management. The call for tenders is expected to be published by 10 October 2021.