InnoBuyer - Open Call for Challengers
ClosedDescription
ACTION #1: Develop a ‘Challenge Description’ which describes an unmet innovation need, considering inputs from other relevant departments in the organisation such as IT, legal, and management, among others. Recruit entities (public or private) who might share the same need and onboard them to contribute to the ‘Challenge Description’ so that the future co-created solution has wider market potential. ACTION #2: Attend training sessions organised by the InnoBuyer team on the subject of “Open market consultation” in order to learn and adopt the latest methodologies on sourcing and market consultation. Attend market dialogue sessions to share unmet innovation needs with potential Solvers, identify interesting solutions in e-pitching sessions and participate in other opportunities to connect Challengers and Solvers. Actively participate in the evaluation and selection of Solvers and corresponding proposed solutions. ACTION #3: Co-creation, deployment, test and assessment of a pilot, in collaboration with an innovative SME, to address the unmet innovation need described in Action #1. ACTION #4: Design and deliver Terms of Reference (ToR) for a simplified form of innovation procurement with legal experts, to acquire the solution developed in Action #3.
Beneficiary & submission
Submission: Applications must be submitted via F6S platform at: https://www.f6s.com/innobuyer-call-for-challengers/apply Eligibility check: A combination of automatic filtering and manual checking will discard applications that do not meet the eligibility criteria. Evaluation process: Every eligible proposal will be evaluated by at least two experts, based on the evaluation criteria: commitment, impact, innovation & scalability, feasibility and team. At the end of the evaluation process, the proposals will be ranked taking into account the revised scores from the online consensus meeting. The top-10-ranked proposals submitted by public organisations and the top-5-ranked proposals submitted by private organisations will be selected.
Further information
Details available at: https://innobuyer.eu/challengers