BIG, the Austrian Federal Real State Agency, was recently awarded with the 2020 Procura+ Outstanding Innovation Procurement in ICT Award, which is supported by the EU-funded Procure2Innovate project. The Agency wanted to unify essential functions and...

2021 has just kicked off and the Procure2Innovate Network has a lot of resolutions and plans for the year ahead. Curious about them? KOINNO's goal in 2021 is to be more than ever a support for our public procurers in Germany in a world that has...

The current government's programme in Austria aims to increase photovoltaic generation capacity in the country. ASFINAG has already tested innovations regarding this topic in the past (for example: the solar flower) and is now consistently pursuing...

A good practice example published in the December edition on the GPP News Alert presents recent work carried out in the City of Koprivnica (Croatia). The example presents the City’s Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI) process to replace a...

The German Competence Centre for Innovation Procurement has issued a useful document on the importance of market research in procurement. The aim of market research is to analyse the market with its potential suppliers, as well as product and service...

AI4Cities, an EU-funded Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP), has launched its Request for Tenders (RfT). Tenderers are invited to submit innovative AI solutions in the fields of energy and mobility. These solutions should contribute to the reduction of...