Introduction from Stefan Maier, Head of the PPPI Service Centre

Introduction from Susanne Kurtz – Deputy head of KOINNO - Kompetenzzentrum innovative Beschaffung.

This brochure provides an overview of projects that are focusing on innovation procurement in the ICT domain funded by the EU's research and innovation funding programs FP7, CIP and Horizon 2020. This includes projects in which public procurers from different countries around Europe pool resources to carry out PCP or PPI procurements together, plus coordination and networking projects that prepare the ground for new PCP or PPI procurements in the future.

This translation of FAQs published as part of the European Assistance for Innovation Procurement (an initiative funded by the European Commission), was developed to bring contracting entities closer to the concept of public procurement for innovation and to raise their awareness.

Webinar from the SESAM project - improving SMEs access to cross-border public procurement. Speakers: Wolfgang Treinen (Berlin Partner for Business and Technology), Doris Scheffler and Leonora Yannakis (EU Contact Point for Public Procurement of Innovation c/o ZENIT GmbH)

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) falls under pre-commercial procurement. It enables public bodies to purchase research to stimulate innovation, when goods or services are currently not available in the marketplace. SBIR helps the public sector to address identified ‘Challenges’ that impact the citizen. On the supplier side SBIR is particularly suited to small and medium-sized business, as contracts are of relatively low value and operate in short timescales

This document includes the services, materials and tools of existing competence centres in Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Austria. The document will be updated whenever necessary with new competence centres and new services. It is therefore a living document, and you can always find the latest version here: http://procure2innovate.eu/innovationprocurement

The guide is a collection of the available knowledge, tips and examples in the field of circular purchasing. With the handles in this guide you can take decisions at the strategic level as well as take concrete steps at the executive level.

The Austrian national ecolabel run by the Ministry of the Environment (Lebensministerium)