public procurement of innovation as an instrument for smart city needs
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Public Procurement of Innovation as an Instrument for Smart City needs
Sigrid RajaloEconomic Development Department, Innovation Policy Division
29.06.2015
The power of public purse
Public purchasing power: 12 % GDP (2012)
Demand-side innovation policy
Government (and local authorities) as smart procurers → market for innovative solutions
The power of public purse
InnovationPublic procurement ProcurerPre-commercial procurement (PCP)Public procurement of innovation (PPI)
Terms
The process in brief
Project management
need → market analysis (market dialogue) → procurement strategy (including functionality) → procuring R&D → procuring innovative solution
The process in brief
Project management
need → market analysis (market dialogue) → procurement strategy (including functionality) → procuring R&D → procuring innovative solution
The process in brief
Project management
need → market analysis (market dialogue) → procurement strategy (including functionality) → procuring R&D → procuring innovative solution
The process in brief
Project management
need → market analysis (market dialogue) → procurement strategy (including functionality) → procuring R&D → procuring innovative solution
The process in brief
Project management
need → market analysis (market dialogue) → procurement strategy (including functionality) → procuring R&D → procuring innovative solution
The process in brief
Project management
need → market analysis (market dialogue) → procurement strategy (including functionality) → procuring R&D → procuring innovative solution
Public procurement of innovation in
EstoniaSupport-
mechanism
• Budget: EUR 20 mln• Period: 2015–2023 • Implementer: Enterprise Estonia• Target group: public procurers, tenderers• Aim: enhance governments` role as procurer of
innovative solutions, thus enabling the development of market for innovative products and services
• Estonian smart specialization areas
Support mechanism
Supported activities• Enhancing knowledge, skills, competence – need-based courses for target
group (general and specialised; informative and practical; focusing on procurement law, project management, sector specific etc) and enabling access to according consulting services
• Raising awareness – communication activities to raise general and target group awareness and interest.
• Organizing market dialogues – organizing sector specific seminars and workshops, using foresight methods where necessary among procurers and tenderers with the aim of stimulating market dialogues between representatives of public and private sector representatives. The aim is to describe the procurers strategic needs and the capability of market to offer solutions.
Supported activities• Procurers` competences:
– sector-, technology-, market-, intellectual property-, procurement legislation specific – to enable better preparation and organization of innovation procurement. Including experts;
– additional market analysis or dialogues;– project management.
• R&D activities carried out by tenderers : – different R&D activities necessary to offer solution required by the tender:
idea generation, solution design, feasibility studies, product development, testing, exploration, validation, prototyping etc.
Max sum per application: EUR 500 000 Applicant: public procurerEvaluation of applications: expert-panel
EXAMPLES
Denmark
Netherlands
Finland
EU funded projects doing PCPs (FP7)More info on: http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/eu-funded-
projects
SILVER (PCP) Robotics ageing well
DECIPHER (PCP)
Services mobile health data
CHARM (PCP)Traffic Management
V-CON (PCP)Virtual road infrastructure modelling
PRACE 3IP (PCP)Smart Textiles ICT for fire fighters
SMART@FIRE (PCP)High Performance Computing
THALEA (PCP)
Cloud for Europe (PCP)Cloud computing
PREFORMA (PCP)Long term digital preservation
IMAILE (PCP)Personalised learning needsENIGMA (PCP)
City Lighting
UNWIRED-HEALTH (PCP)
NYMPHA-MD (PCP)
Mobile care for vaccination & heart failure
Mental care for bipolar disordersTele-detection/care of ICU patients
HEALTHAGEING
TRANSPORT
SUSTAINABILITY
E-GOV
EDUCATION
SAFETY
Human Brain projectPCP on supercomputing/brain modelling
