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...

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...

The ICT outsourcing initiative of Groningen will carry on, despite findings research by Vtrek and its echoing by the city council and other opposed parties.   "The council of B and W of the munic...

 

 

 

Vtrek's partner organization Corvers' Procurement Services, as part of the eafip consortium, has finalized Module 2 of the eafip toolkit. The eafip Toolkit aims to provide support to policy makers in ...

A new blog post by Andrus Ansip at the European Commission cites the important role of the European Assistance for Innovation Procurement (eafip) initiative in training and assisting public procurers....