Publication of the new EU Public Procurement Directives in February 2014 brought with them a number of changes and greater flexibility in how public procurements can be carried out. One of the main areas of change is that of exclusion criteria,...

Barcelona (Spain) is one of a number of cities using solutions-focused procurement to promote entrepeneurship. Rather than taking the traditional approach of publishing tenders specifying the goods or services it would like to buy, Barcelona has...

The shortlist for the Public Procurement of Innovation Award has been narrowed to six finalists, representing the most innovative and impressive public procurement activities carried out in Europe. An in-depth profile of each finalist, detailing...

To provide both a theoretical framework and more practical advice on implementing public procurement of innovation (PPI), the Procurement of Innovation Platform project is organising a series of training sessions. The second seminar will be held in...

The winner of the first Public Procurement of Innovation Award will be announced next month at the 2014 EcoProcura Conference in Ghent (Belgium). The Award recognises and publicises successful public procurement practices that have been used to...

The DECIPHER project has launched a new Pre Commercial Procurement (PCP) to develop innovative mobile health care technology in EU Member States. The public-private collaboration is looking to provide secure access to patient healthcare information...