A new good practice case study has been published in the latest EU GPP News Alert about the municipality if Frederiksberg’s innovation partnership to procure a flood water management system.
The Procura+ Award 2019 winner of the Innovation Procurement category is affected by heavy cloudbursts and is strongly invested in protecting again future flooding. The Municipality has launched a number of projects to improve rainwater management. By improving the city’s ‘green’ and ‘blue’ infrastructure (such as vegetation and water features) rainwater can be captured, and its flow can be diverted from sewers or slowed down. The Municipality aims to handle 30% of rainwater ‘locally’, meaning, without relying on the sewage system to drain water from streets.
As an ideal solution suitable for dense city streets was not yet available on the market, Frederiksberg used an innovation partnership model in order to procure a customised solution for heavy rainfall management.
The innovation partnership process resulted in two solution solutions that were co-developed with the Municipality, and were tested at the same time in the same locations, which were selected as representative of the majority of city streets where the solution would be deployed.
A detailed description of the innovation partnership procedure, the results and the environmental impact can be found in the EU GPP News Alert Good Practice example.