Last chance to apply for the European Assistance for Innovation Procurement (EAFIP) initiative
The new (and last) call of the European Assistance For Innovation Procurement (EAFIP) has been announced: all public procurers from EU Member States can apply for local assistance under this initiative aiming at promoting good practices and reinforcing the evidence base on completed innovation procurements but also starting new innovation procurement.
Financed by the European Commission (DG CONNECT), this initiative is the bridge that connects the EU Institution with public procurers, including contracting entities in the utilities and security sector and helps them develop and implement more and better innovation procurements of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) based solutions across the EU.
The aim of the EAFIP initiative is to promote good practices and reinforce the evidence base on completed innovation procurements across Europe. To encourage other public procurers to start new Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) and Public Procurements of Innovative Solutions (PPI) and to boost the digital-green economy recovery through Innovation Procurement.
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