Recently the European Commission’s DG Connect F3 unit (Digital Innovation and Blockchain) presented an overview of the impacts achieved by pre-commercial procurements (PCPs) funded by the EU's researc...

Today, June 17, Stephan Corvers introduced the participants of the event “Towards interregional collaboration on hydrogen coaches” in Brussels to public procurement of innovation. In his presentation ...

Recently the Proportionality Guide has been made available. The Proportionality Guide intends to ensure that all requirements imposed by a contracting authority are proportionate to the object and sco...

Today at the Dutch National Pianoo Procurement Conference 2019 Stephan Corvers, from Corvers Procurement Services BV, on behalf of the eafip-initiative announced the newly selected innovation procurem...

Cost reduction and sustainability are already proven in practice for residuals from drinking water production including lime pellets and ferric sludges. Aluminium based sludges are the next target, th...

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...

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...