Buying Innovation - the 10 Step Guide to SMART Procurement and SME Access to Public Contracts
Developed to foster a more SME-friendly approach to public procurement to allow SMEs to make the most of their potential for job creation, growth and innovation. Increasing involvement of SMEs into public purchasing will result in higher competition for public contracts, leading to better value for money and efficiencies for contracting authorities.
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Innovation procurement (PPI) , Pre commercial procurement
This guide shows how you, as a public purchaser, can improve the situation of the workers and help respect international and national laws on working conditions, human rights and living wages, in
consultation with your suppliers.
The KOINNO Toolbox is THE work tool for public procurement! Developed By the German competence center for innovation procurement in collaboration with the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich, the toolbox offers numerous useful tools, for example: on the subject of procurement procedures, procurement strategy and project management.
The functional specification clarifies the object to be procured or the problem to be solved and is the "heart" of a procurement procedure. This short video introduces the concept for beginners.
This guide is intended to help ensure that the public sector increasingly demands innovative products and provision of services and that public procurement of innovation serve in that process.