Public Sector Procurement has to constantly navigate buying procedures as complex processes under a tight budget with a focus on adding value through purchasing as a means of deliberate use of public money. This entails procuring innovation as well...

Interview with Floris den Boer, senior advisor at PIANOo. The full interview is published on the P2I Website. PIANOo is the Dutch Procurement Expertise Center of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate. Thee Center offers information, advice,...

The jury of the 2019 Procura+ Awards has just revealed the eight finalists of this edition. For the category ‘Sustainable Procurement of the Year’, the Government of Catalonia with its sustainable framework contract for cleaning services...

- first published on the LEA project website -  Learntech stakeholders from all 28 EU countries become LEA Followers Digital technologies and ICT has the potential to revolutionise the way children are taught and learn, but to date, the...

What is the current situation of innovation procurement in Estonia?The annual volume of public procurement in the public sector was around € 10 billion by 2018. Thus, public sector demand has a significant impact on the national economy....

New data from a survey of all the completed PCPs that were funded by EU Framework Program 7 shows now also longer-term impacts on the commercialization success rate of companies and the modernization of public services. Note: PCP means to steer the...