Call for proposals

COSME Call 2020 - Co-financing of public procurement of innovation consortia COS-PPI-2020-2-04 Open!

Official Launch: 4 months ago
Next Deadline: 08 June 2021 - in 3 months
Global Budget: 5 M€
Official page of the Call

Objectives

This call for proposals is intended to contribute to the general objective of “strengthening the competitiveness and sustainability of the Union's enterprises, particularly SMEs”. In particular, this call for proposals is expected to contribute to a significant increase in the proportion of SMEs that have access to the public procurement market.

This call for proposals has three main objectives.

The first objective is to encourage cooperation between public buyers to promote the use of public procurement to contribute to the development of innovative solutions able to tackle their needs.
The second objective is to increase the impact of public procurement on innovation. Public procurement can be used as a tool to foster innovation in areas of strong public interest such as, for instance, clean energy (contributing to Paris targets for fighting climate change) or healthcare. This will in turn encourage innovative EU companies, in particular SMEs, to develop new solutions to address societal challenges.
The third objective is to link and establish synergies with research and innovation projects funded by the EU whenever possible. This may be relevant in particular with other projects funded by the Commission in relation to innovation procurement

Actions

The following activities are mandatory to be carried out in the context of this call for proposals:

Assessment of the public buyers’ needs
Market consultation
Engaging the market jointly
Capacity Building and Coordination between public buyers
Developing the specifications
Preparation and implementation of the tendering procedure
Communication on the achievements of the projects

European community funding

The Community provisional funding available for the call for proposals is:

5,00 Million EUR (Global Budget)

All the important deadlines

19 January 2021 - more than one month ago (Deadline for the presentation of proposals)
08 June 2021 - in 3 months (Deadline for the presentation of proposals)