1. MGA for PCP and PPI cofunds in Horizon Lieve Bos European Commission DG CONNECT (Communication Networks) F2 unit (“Innovation”)

2. PCP-PPI Complementarity
PCP to steer the development of solutions towards concrete public sector needs, whilst comparing/validating alternative solution approaches from various vendors
PPI to act as launching customer / early adopter / first buyer of innovative commercial end-solutions newly arriving on the market
Public Procurement of
Innovative Solutions (PPI)
Applied R&D / Pre-commercial Procurement (PCP)
Phase 0
Curiosity
Driven
Research
Phase 1
Solution design
Phase 2
Prototype
development
Phase 3
Original development
of limited volume
of first test products /
services
Phase 4
Deployment of commercial volumes of end-products
Wide diffusion of newly developed solutions
Supplier A
Supplier B
Supplier B
Supplier B
Supplier(s)
A,B,C,D
and/or X
Supplier C
Supplier C
Third reason for why demand driven innovation through public procurement: To create growth and jobs 'in Europe'
PCP-PPI combination is based on best practice to:
Steer R&D to meet concrete public sector needs (earlier customer feedback helps gets better fit for purpose products, less expensive customisation needed after)
Give multiple companies a chance to show what pros/cons of their ideas are (preventing supplier lock-in, get first inside knowledge of pros/cons of competing solutions to write better tender specs for PPI afterwards)
Share IPR rights with industry to encourage wide commercialisation
Keep competitive open market at all stages to get best value for money (short contracts per phase, no long term partnership contract locking into certain vendors)
Give SMEs an equal chance to enter the procurement market (no selection criteria requesting large company turnover / long list of prior customer references, contract value / expected effort increases gradually phase per phase alongside the natural growth path of a growing company)
Pool demand where possible with other procurers to share the R&D cost
Because of the split between PCP and PPI:
Definitely no State aid (uses maximum level of competition possible)
PCP exempted from EU directives and WTO rules on procurement. Possible to restrict PCP to EU wide offers or to require R&D (jobs) to be done in Europe
Supplier D
Supplier D
Supplier D
Also normally multiple sourcing here to keep competition going
Objectives:
Price/quality products that better fit public sector needs
Earlier customer feedback for companies developing solutions
Better take-up/Wider commercialisation of R&D results

3. Exploring possibilities
Status of PCP implementation across Europe June Already piloted in FP7
Framework identified
and/or pilots
in preparation
Awareness Raising
Exploring possibilities
Working on
framework
PCPs projects ongoing
Malta
Estonia
Finland
Sweden
Latvia
Romania
Lithuania
Ireland
Poland
Spain
Bulgaria
Netherlands
Cyprus
Greece
Denmark UK
Slovenia
Belgium
Czech
Republic
Luxembourg
France
Iceland
Slovakia
Portugal
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Hungary
Examples of PCPs done by procurers in countries around Europe without EU support: in Norway, Austria, Italy, Spain, UK, etc
->More Info about national PCP initiatives in Member States:
Examples of on-going EC funded PCP projects in ICT domain doing joint cross-border PCP procurements:
SILVER (Robotics solutions for elderly care), CHARM (Traffic management), V-CON (Virtual Construction / Modelling of Roads),
(Integrated ICTs for Smart Personal Protective Equipment for Fire Fighters and First Responders), DECIPHER (applications based on Distributed EC Individual Personal Health Records), PRACE 3IP (high energy efficient high performance computing), C4E (Cloud computing), ENIGMA (lighting solutions for cities), IMAILE (e-learning), PREFORMA (long term digital preservation), NYMPHA-MD (mobile care for bipolar disorders), THALEA (telecare for ICU patients), UNWIRED HEALTH (mobile care solutions for vaccination/heart failure patients) ->More info on EU funded ICT domain cross border PCP projects:
The deployment of PCP and PPI happens in waves around Europe. Old Member States generally faster than New Member States. The dotted boxes indicate the countries from which there are procurers collaborating in EU funded PCP projects.
There is a correlation between countries that are advanced in PCP and PPI. UK, Sweden, Finland substantial PPI experience. Same countries ahead on PCP…
Increasing amount of countries where national or regional research and innovation programs (alike EC) offer financial incentives (co-financing of PCP or PPI procurement cost) to procurers: FI, SE, UK, NL, IT, AT, BE (Flanders), DE. Combination of such national and EC (FP7/CIP) funding possible.
Some countries are combining already structural funds from EC, risk-sharing finance facility support from EIB and national R&I funds for setting up large scale PCP initiatives: 270 mio EURO in Italy for PCPs.
Some countries already made cross-border inter-ministerial agreements, paving the way for more cross-border PCPs/PPIs (e.g. the five Norden countries: NO, FI, SE, DK, Iceland).
National and EU policy effort to promote PCP and PPI has encouraged some procurers in some countries to start PCPs even without national or EC financial support (e.g. Norway Statoil PCP on CO2 reduction, Italy Lombardia hospital PCP). 3

4. Participation: 3 public procurers plus
Minimum of 3 independent participants from 3 different MS or AC, of which minimum 2 public procurers (buyers group) from 2 different MS or AC
Public procurers are contracting authorities or contracting entities as define in the EU public procurement directives
They can be complemented by other types of procurers that are providing services of public interest and share the same need to procure R&D or innovative solutions
E.g. NGOs or private procurers
Other entities may participate as direct beneficiaries on condition that they add value to the action, are not potential suppliers of solutions sought for by the PCP/PPI and have no other type of conflict of interest
Assisting the procurers in the preparation, implementation and follow-up

5. Roles in MGA Beneficiaries Buyers group Lead procurer
Action contains beneficiaries that undertaken together the PCP or PPI procurement, the buyers group & the lead procurer
Buyers group
Procurers in the action that provide the financial commitments to undertake the PCP or PPI procurement
Min 2 public procurers from 2 different Member States or associated countries
Lead procurer
Procurer appointed by buyers group to lead and coordinate the PCP or PPI procurement
Third parties linked to beneficiaries
E.g. Third parties (e.g. end-users such as fire brigade) putting resources (e.g. test sites, testers) at the disposal of the beneficiaries (e.g. the ministry of internal affairs that is the procurer for the fire brigades) to carry out the action
Subcontractors
Successful tenderers, selected by the buyers group & lead procurer as result of the PCP or PPI call for tender, to provide the R&D services (PCP) or innovative solutions (PPI). They do 'NOT' become partners in the MGA.

6. Eligible activities Preparation stage Execution stage
Preparation of one joint PCP or PPI procurement per action
Open market consultation /verification of market readiness to meet procurement need
If relevant to the action, other networking or coordination activities
Outcome
Agreed common tender specifications
Joint procurement agreement
Confirmation of commitment on availability of financial commitments to start PCP or PPI
Execution stage
Joint procurement of the R&D services (PCP) or innovative solutions (PPI)
Implementation of the procurement contracts /payment of providers
Assessment of the outcomes of the procurement
Confirmation of 'after-PCP/PPI' strategy for dissemination/exploitation of results
If relevant to the action, other networking or coordination activities

7. EU contribution
Reimbursement rate direct costs: Max 70% of eligible costs for PCP cofund actions, Max 20% of eligible costs for PPI cofund actions
Eligible direct costs to carry out eligible activities defined in WP include:
Price of the R&D services (PCP) or innovative solutions (PPI) procured (if procurement conducted in compliance with requirements in Annex E WP)
Eligible coordination and networking activities
May include in-kind contributions (e.g. third parties putting resources at disposal of beneficiaries e.g. for testing of solutions)
VAT is an eligible cost unless for beneficiaries that can deduct it
Flexibility: Consortium may choose to use part of the Union contribution to increase the support to coordination and networking activities/budget for call for tender as long as the Union contribution does not exceed 70% (PCP)/20% (PPI) of the sum of those costs and the price of the call for tender/coordination and networking activities. Requested reimbursement for coordination and networking can comprise max 30% (for PCP) / max 50% (for PPI) of total requested grant
Plus 25% for indirect costs. But, no indirect costs on the price of the PCP/PPI procurement or on 3rd party resources not used at the premises of the beneficiaries
Pre-financing: Yes, 1st pre-financing at start project for costs for preparation stage, 2nd pre-financing before execution stage for costs for rest (incl. call for tender budget)

8. Specific requirements PCP procedure (Annex E WP)
Procedure: Compliance with applicable national procurement rules + compliance with additional specific requirements
Definition PCP (Horizon 2020 RfP and PCP communication)
EU-wide published open market dialogue and call for tender
PCP call for tender open for at least 60 days
Same objective evaluation criteria
Functional / performance based specifications
Best value for money award criteria
Majority of R&D activities performed in MS/AS
IPR arrangements for PCP
R&D providers generating results in PCP shall own attached IPRs
Procurers shall enjoy royalty-free access rights to use the R&D results for their own use
Procurers shall also enjoy the right to grant or to require participating R&D providers to grant non-exclusive licenses to third parties to exploit the results under fair and reasonable market conditions without any right to sublicense

9. Specific requirements PPI procedure (Annex E WP)
Procedure: Compliance with applicable national procurement rules + compliance with additional specific requirements
Definition PPI (Horizon 2020 RfP). Choice between procurement procedures covered by procurement directives that do not include procurement of R&D
EU wide publication of open market consultation, early announcement of target date for launching the PPI and call for tender
PPI call for tender open for at least 60 days
PPI call for tender open to tenderers from EU Member States and Horizon associated countries + (if applicable) additional countries that ratified WTO GPA
Possibility of conformance testing before contract award
Same objective evaluation criteria
Functional / performance based specifications
Best value for money award criteria
IPR arrangements for PPI
IPRs attached to results generated during PPI shall be owned by the party generating the results, unless duly justified cases (e.g. party the generating results is not able to exploit IPRs)
Unless PPI limited to prototypes,
test-products developed during
pre-ceding PCP Cofund action

10. Other obligations related to implementation of call
Beneficiaries must ensure wide publication for open market consultation and contract notice, unless for PPI ltd to prototypes/test products from PCP cofund
OJEU, H2020 sites, NCPs etc
The beneficiaries must formally notify the Commission:
5 days before publication in OJEU: copy of the PIN for the open market consultation
30 days before publication in OJEU: copy of the contract notice and its contents
Open market consultation shall be announced well in advance to the market:
Min 2 months in advance via publication of PIN in OJEU (except for PPI procuring outcomes of PCP)
Joint call for tender shall remain open:
At least 60 days: for PCP
At least 60 days: for PPI

11. Updates/clarifications in MGA PCP-PPI Cofunds June 2014
Annex 11: Commitment availability of resources (updated annex)
Pre-financing payments (Art 21.2, footnotes 44 & 45)
1st: corresponds to the percentage of the maximum grant amount that is foreseen for the related additional coordination and networking activities related to the preparation of the call for tender
2nd: corresponds to a maximum of 980% minus the amount of the first pre-financing payment, unless option with three pre-financing payments is used.
Deliverables (Art 19 aligned with proposal template)
at the end of the tender evaluation [OPTION for PCP: (including after the intermediate evaluations preceding the start of each new PCP phase (see Article 13))]: …
information on the evaluation of tenders: the final ranking list of the selected projects, final scores and qualitative assessment per evaluation criterion for each received bid, minutes of the evaluation meeting
[OPTION for PCP: assessment by the buyers group of the results achieved by each participating tenderer in the previous PCP phase (not applicable to the initial evaluation of tenders at the start of the PCP)]
at the end of the action: information on each project financed by the procurement, including data on each contractor that participated in the procurement and overview of the results, for publication and evaluation purposes; This must include an assessment by the buyers group, based on the validation of solutions, of the final results of each participating tenderer in terms of achieving the performance and functionality requirements of the initial tender specifications.