PRONTO

Piloting Public Procurement of Innovation (GA No 857810)

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Funding Source

EUROPEAN COMMISSION - Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME)

Programme

Competitiveness of Enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises (COSME)

Duration

January 2020 – May 2021

Total budget

1.496.003 €

URL

https://www.pronto-ppi.eu/

Q-PLAN role

Partner

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Description

PRONTO aimed to boost public procurement for sustainable innovation by:

  1. encouraging cooperation and knowledge sharing between public buyers to promote the use of public procurement;
  2. enhancing their professional capacity and skills to implement PPI in a successful manner in-line with the national and EU standards; and
  3. piloting PPIs in the areas of clean energy (Slovakia), and healthcare and regional development (Romania)

Q-PLAN responsibilities

  • Support to the financial management of the project
  • Responsible for the analysis of the PPI landscape at national and EU level (best practices, factors hindering the process, constrains, labels and standards in PPI, European Policy Framework, EC funded projects, policies, etc.) with special focus on the barriers and opportunities to the Innovation Procurement process, products and services in healthcare and clean energy sector
  • Organisation of the training, public consultation and market brokerage events in Greece.
  • Support to the piloting of PPI in the 2 targeted countries (Slovakia and Romania)
  • Contribution to the impact assessment.
  • Promotion of the project’s activities through its wide national and European networks.
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