Pre-procurement boosts sustainable innovations

October 15, 2008

The kick-off meeting of the SMART-SPP project on pre-procurement and innovations, co-ordinated by ICLEI and supported by the Intelligent Energy Europe programme was held 7-8 October 2008 in Brussels.

What is pre-procurement?

The term pre-procurement stands for the time frame before the main tendering of a public authority. It includes the preparation of the tender and normally a market survey on the availability of certain required products as well as the actual preparation of the tender documents. SMART-SPP will use this time frame to include smarter engagement with the market in order to stimulate the early market creation of innovative highly energy-efficient technologies.

Three year process to unfold the power of pre-procurement

Partners from five European countries started together on a 3-years process, using the pre-procurement phase to bring highly energy efficient new technologies such as OLED-lighting, electric vehicles, renewable energy heating and cooling, and 'Information and Communication Technologies' (ICT) equipment onto the market.

Looking for more public authorities in Europe

SMART-SPP is looking for European public authorities that are interested in joing the buyers group. For more information please contact the project co-ordinator Philipp Tepper (philipp.tepper@iclei.org).