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European Assistance For Innovation Procurement

The European Assistance For Innovation Procurement (eafip) is an initiative financed by the European Commission for providing local assistance to public procurers for starting new innovation procurement and for promoting good practices and reinforcing the evidence base on completed innovation procurements.

European Assistance For Innovation Procurement

The aim of the European Assistance for Innovation Procurement initiative (eafip) is to provide local assistance to public procurers across Europe to start new PCP and PPI procurements and promote good practices and reinforce the evidence base on completed innovation procurements. 

Planned activities for eafip are:

  • Providing free of charge technical and legal assistance to public procurers across all EU Member States in the preparation and implementation of innovation procurements of ICT based solutions. This includes local assistance for PCPs and PPIs supported by local lawyers that speak the local official EU language. 
  • Updating regularly the eafip Innovation procurement toolkit, which has 3 modules for policy makers, public procurers and legal staff on why and how to implement PCP and PPI, illustrated by examples. An online helpdesk with FAQs.
  • Promoting good practices and reinforcing the evidence base, in particular on the impacts achieved by completed innovation procurements around Europe. This happens through events and webinars and videos in which public procurers from different sectors talk openly about the procurement approach, lessons learnt and benefits of their completed PCP and PPI procurements.

Interested to benefit from this European assistance on innovation procurement? Get in touch with the eafip team. Twitter: https://twitter.com/eafip_eu