Tempting with 600,000 for an innovative ICT procurement – Anbud365
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Well, there are opportunities to get 600,000 Danish kroner for an innovative ICT acquisition. It is the Nordic project “Circular and climate-friendly public procurement”, led by the Directorate for Administration and Financial Management (DFØ), which is behind the offer. The amount must go to the organization that can best be described as a circular ICT challenge that can be solved through an innovative procurement process. A fantastic opportunity to buy in with ambitions for circularity and sustainability, in other words.
The application deadline is 30 November.
The following innovative procurement methodologies are recommended, it says on anskafninger.no:
- Pre-commercial acquisition
- Starter competition
- Innovation partnership
- Plan and design competition
- Competitive dialogue
- Competition with negotiations.
The project states that it is possible to use the funds for ongoing projects together with other funds. In those cases, you must try to describe in more detail how the funds from the Nordic project will trigger extra activities.
The query should be between 800-1200 words. Heavy weight in the evaluation of the application is a clear description of the circular need, expected climate and environmental effects, as well as the scalability of the solution.
Nordic cooperation
Circular and climate-friendly public procurement (CCFP) is a collaborative project that wants to limit the climate and environmental footprint of the Nordic public sector’s high consumption of goods and services. The project must last until December next year and is financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers. I would add to DFØ, which leads the project, there are several partners in the project: the Supplier Development Program (LUP – Norway), the Naturvårdsverket and the Upphandlingsmyndigheten (Sweden), Motiva (Finland) and the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (Denmark). In addition, SYKE (Finland) and the Danish Energy Agency (Denmark) contribute to a sub-project.
The project is based on technology developed by LUP (Norway) and procurement cooperation in Finland and Sweden and will work with: Zero emission transport, circular furniture, circular ICT, batteries and packaging. Spotlight on further developing the measurement of climate effects in public procurement is included. It must develop methods, tools and examples where use of existing or new standard data, effective available data to produce better statistics on climate effects and trends related to public procurement