Innovation Procurement

Public innovation procurement is vital to ensure Europe’s economic success and tackle emerging challenges, like climate change, pandemics or digitalisation.

By procuring innovative solutions, public bodies can increase the efficiency of their services, reduce costs and adapt novel approaches to address the needs of their citizens. On the other hand, the resulting contracts, which already account for nearly 20% of Europe´s GDP, can offer a significant boost to innovative solution providers and encourage the development of state-of-the-art custom build technologies and services.

The EU has identified the potential of innovation procurement to its economy, competitiveness and as solution to the various challenges faced by for instance health care providers or first responders. Consequently, new funding opportunities for public innovation procurement have been created, for instance under HORIZON Europe. The EU hereby differentiates between Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP), focused on the procurement of tailored solutions not yet available on the market; and Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI), the early adoption and adaption of innovative solutions, not available on a larger commercial basis, to the requirements of the public buyers.

There are, however, a range of barriers, like complex tender specifications, IPR related issues or other process related constrains, which are preventing public buyers and solution providers to take full advantage of the wide range of opportunities innovation procurement can offer.

We at SYNYO focus on making the procurement process understandable and accessible, based on our significant expertise in the preparation and implementation of innovation procurement projects. Through our experienced team as well as network of buyers and suppliers, SYNYO can offer a wide range of relevant services.

Requirements Engineering & Use Case Specification

We offer to take over the requirements engineering in procurement projects to help to address and to identify the specific needs of the respective end-users and public buyers. We provide a structured overview of the main priority areas and existing capability gaps from which we specify the technical requirements for the innovative solution to be procured.

Ecosystem Analysis & Market Research

We offer to take over the mapping and analysis of the targeted ecosystem and market to enable your project to address the existing gaps, challenges and innovation needs of your target group. We provide structured analysis and mapping of innovative technologies, services and systems as well as R&D initiatives and solution providers within the targeted market, supported by the implementation of open-market consultations.

Tender Preparation & Validation

We offer to support your project and public buyers in the definition of award criteria and tender preparation for the subsequent procurement process or prototype development. We organise interactive workshops to aid in the definition of joint-procurement processes and respective definition of shared award criteria based on the end-user and public buyer requirements identified and consequent preparation of the legal tender document.

Community Building & Call for Tender

We offer to support the call for tenders and exploitation activities by engaging and connecting your project with solution suppliers, related end-users and public buyers, which we mobilise to ensure a successful call for tenders, based on response monitoring and responsive communication activities. Our existing networks can be used to establish synergies and ensure the long-term success and wider impact of your PCP or PPI project.