On June 5 DG HOME (DG Migration and Home Affairs) hosted the 11TH MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY OF USERS ON SECURE, SAFE AND RESILIENT SOCIETIES. The meeting was held over 3 full days and attended by a wid...

On Thursday 7 June, Corvers and Vtrek, together with the national government and at least 50 public and private companies and organizations, signed the Green Deal Circular Procurement 2.0 from the initiators MVO Nederland, NEVI, PIANOo and Rijkswaterstaat. The participants combined a total of over 100 million in purchasing power.

“Procurement Innovation and Strategy” is the theme of the 14th PRIMO Forum. The event is hosted this year by the Government of Romania, and is co-sponsored by the European Bank for Reconstruction a...

The open market consultation is conducted in preparation of a pre-commercial procurement of R&D services for radical innovation in radio interoperability, which is a requirement for effective mobile communications in the security ecosystem.

On 19 March 2018, the Corvers-MSM Chair in Innovation Procurement at Maastricht School of Management gave a short series of public lectures to highlight new developments with respect to Pre-Commercial...

In 2018 the European Commission will conduct research on innovation-oriented procurement in Europe. The goal of this research is to collect quantitative data about the extent of innovation-oriented pr...

On 19 March 2018, the Corvers-MSM Chair in Innovation Procurement at Maastricht School of Management will be giving a short series of public lectures to highlight new developments with respect to Pre-Commercial Procurement for Innovation in the European context.

On 7 and 8 December, the Corvers-MSM Chair in Innovation Procurement at Maastricht School of Management hosted a challenging workshop in Maastricht to reflect on Europe’s experience in the deployment of Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) in order to contribute from a professional and academic perspective to the improvement of the PCP practice.

Corvers and Vtrek were invited by the Ministry of Economic Affairs to present on the 12th of October on European Assistance for Innovation Procurement (eafip) and our business case methodology for inn...

The European Commission has adopted an important initiative on public procurement. Public administrations spend €2 trillion yearly in buying public services and goods. That is the equivalent of 14% of...

The SPP Regions project, which promotes SPP and PPi in European regional networks of municipalities, has released a Best Practice Report and Collection of Case Studies on Circular Procurement (CP). Ai...

The new revised Methodology for Assessing Procurement Systems (MAPS) for assessing public procurement systems in their entirety is expected for the fall 2017. A preliminary tool is already available i...

Europe's leading e-infrastructures, EGI, EUDAT, GÉANT, OpenAIRE, PRACE and RDA Europe, invite all researchers, developers and service providers for two days of brainstorming and discussions at the Dig...

On the 7th of June 2017, the European Commission launched a European Defense Fund to support Member States in coordinating and preventing duplication in their R&D and acquisition expenses in the defen...

Registrations are now open for the eafip Workshop for public procurers in the sectors of education, recreation, culture and religion