On June5 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, Vtrek and Corvers, 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.

Dr. Ramona Apostol and Dr. Anne Rainville, Research Fellows at the Corvers Chair in Innovation Procurement at Maastricht School of Managment recently participated in the 14th PRIMO Forum in Bucharest,...

 The European Commission issued a notice on Guidance on Innovation Procurement. The purpose of this Notice is to offer practical guidance on innovation public procurement.

“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 c...

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-...

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...

Vtrek is pleased to announce a new partnership with IPlytics: an innovative Berlin-based company providing the missing link in public sector business case development. The company offers the missing l...

Procurement of textiles from recycled fibres In its procurement of towels and overalls, the Ministry of Defence of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (MODNL) followed a circular pol...

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...

In order to assist contracting authorities of the Netherlands in upholding social rights, the Ministry of Interior and Kingdomrelations drafted a standard text. The due diligence research helps to ide...