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TG1 - Pre-Commercial Public Procurement

The Thematic Group on Pre-Commercial Public Procurement will lead to a better understanding of how public procurement can trigger industrial innovation.

Pre-commercial procurement of innovation refers to the procurement of technological innovation up to and including a first pre-commercial volume batch of products and / or services validated via field tests. Pre-commercial procurement of innovation involves direct public R&D investment in the first three phases (pre-commercial part) of a typical R&D project life cycle.

This Thematic Group is led by POLIS. Partners involved are CEDR, tie limited, ERTICO and the University of Cologne (Institute for Transport Economics).

Source: European Commission

Expected impact

The Thematic Group on Pre-Commercial Public Procurement will contribute to the deployment of new transport ICT technologies, especially by exploring the potential of pre-commercial public procurement. In this way it will contribute to the acceleration of the deployment and market take-up of ICT for mobility solutions and thus to the innovation and competitiveness of the European road transport industry.

The steps to achieve this will be the analysis of good practices, the development of potential business cases that match recent research developments to user needs, the development of a roadmap for pre-commercial procurement and the creation of a framework for the formation of public procurement groups.

A link to the European platforms on public procurement will be established to ensure future connections between ITS development and road transport public procurement.

Public Deliverables

D1.2.3 Business case outline

This document consists of a report on consultation for the identification of cases for PCP in ITS and a list of potential cases for PCP in ITS.  .pdf (305.4 KB)

D1.3.4 Final roadmap for the pre-commercial procurement of ITS

This document consists of a description of the challenges related to the process of pre-commercial procurement process related to the ITS sector and specific examples of how these challenges can be considered for some selected transport challenges.  .pdf (272 KB)

Related documents

European initiatives

Reference documents

Communication from the European Commission: Pre-commercial Procurement: Driving innovation to ensure sustainable high quality public services in Europe, December 2007

European Commission staff working document, accompanying document to the Communication from the European Commission: Pre-commercial Procurement: Driving innovation to ensure sustainable high quality public services in Europe Example of a possible approach for procuring R&D services applying risk-benefit sharing at market conditions, i.e. pre-commercial procurement, December 2007

Guide on dealing with innovative solutions in public procurement, 10 elements of good practice, Commission staff working document, 2007

Technical Press Briefing, DG INFSO - Presentation

Pre-commercial procurement report, "Public sector needs as a driver of innovation", European Commission, September 2006

Pre-commercial procurement of innovation: A missing link in the European Innovation Cycle, Technical independent expert report, March 2006 (full report – executive summary)

EC meetings

- ICT 2008, networking sessions on pre-commercial procurement

- Open Days 2008 workshop on "Boosting European competitiveness via Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP)"

- IST Event 2006, Helsinki, Session on Pre Commercial Procurement

- European Commission workshops on pre-commercial procurement and ICTs for transport, 22nd June 2006

National initiatives

Reference practices

Transport innovation case studies

Links

CORDIS: ICT: Pre-Commercial procurement (PCP) PCP website that focuses on news and FP7 funding opportunities related to PCP.

Demanding Innovation, Lead markets, public procurement and innovation, By Luke Georghiou Essay published by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. Professor Luke Georghiou PhD BSc is Associate Dean of Research at the University of Manchester and Director of PREST (Policy Research in Engineering, Science and Technology).

Europe Innova The network driving European Innovation.

European Public Procurement Network The European Public Procurement Network (PPN) is a co-operation network of public procurement expert officials, dedicated to European companies taking part in procurement procedures in other countries of the network than theirs. It involves all EU Member States, EU candidate countries, EEA Members and Switzerland.

STEPPIN STandards in European Public Procurement lead to INnovation - explores how referencing open standards in European public procurement processes can foster innovative business solutions amongst bidding companies.

Open Method of Coordination (OMC) - Public technology procurement The aim of the project is to bring policy makers and practicioners together and to provide a platform of mutual learning concerning various forms of pre-commercial procurement - not exclusively technology procurement as the acronym suggests.