Resources on Procurement of Innovation
Doing innovation procurement requires specific knowledge and expertise. Luckily, many resources exist, including guidance, criteria sets and case studies, which can help you on your journey to purchasing innovative goods and services.
In addition, you can visit our 'Services and Expertise' page to find more information on specific projects, initiatives and other services which can support you to do innovation procurement in practice.
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Innovative lighting procurement for London's Underground network
Best practice case study as part of the European Commission GPP In Practice series focusing on TfL's extensive market engagement for the procurement of innovative lighting.
English
Europe/EU, United Kingdom
Driving innovation through public procurement
This guide illustrates the positive steps that procurers can take at the various stages of the procurement process to encourage innovation. It shows how innovation can be addressed in a way that is consistent with value for money and the legal framework for public procurement.
English
United Kingdom
Forward Commitment Procurement of a zero waste prison mattress solution
Historically, the majority of waste mattresses and pillows from Her Majesty's Prison Service (HMPS) were sent to landfill or incinerated (costing money and damaging the environment). HMPS worked with the DTI/DEFRA Environmental Innovations Advisory Group and OGC in the first Forward Commitment Procurement (FCP) demonstration project to deliver an innovative solution to this problem.
English
United Kingdom
CHARM Programme - improving traffic management through pre-commercial procurement (PCP)
Some specific functions that significantly improve traffic management are not yet available on the market. The CHARM PCP project (2012-2017) challenged the market to develop innovative traffic management functions for Rijkswaterstaat (Netherlands) and Highways England. External companies have developed six new prototypes for incident detection, network management and in-car systems.
English, Dutch
Netherlands, United Kingdom
Lessons Learnt Supporting SMEs in Eco-Innovation
The Centre for Sustainable Design® (CfSD) at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) and partners have provided eco-innovation business support to over 590 SMEs in the South-East of England between 2009 and 2012. This paper shares the findings, lessons learnt and conclusions from two European Commission (EC) funded projects, EcoMind and SUSCIN (see Appendices A and B).
English
United Kingdom
What role does Government procurement play in manufacturing in the UK and internationally and how might this change in the future?
This report, commissioned by the Government Office for Science, has the general aim of reviewing the available evidence concerning the impact and role of public sector procurement on UK manufacturing.
English
United Kingdom
London gets FIRED-uP with smarter fire engines
London Fire Brigade launched a competitive dialogue using output-based specifications, to improve the environmental performance of their fire-fighting vehicles.
English
United Kingdom
Fostering Innovation Through Public Procurement - a research study
This report examines how public procurement in Northern Ireland can better encourage innovation – the creation of new processes, products, ideas and services.
English
United Kingdom
Forward commitment procurement: guidance on buying innovative goods and services
Forward Commitment Procurement (FCP) is an early market engagement tool that brings together progressive thinking and best practice from the private sector and the innovation and procurement communities, together with the understanding of the demand side barriers to the commercialisation of innovative goods and services identified by the Environmental Innovations Advisory Group (EIAG) to bring new cost effective goods and services into the market.
English
United Kingdom