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Procuring Innovation in the Urban Mobility Context – the Legal and Technical Aspects

What are the legal and technical aspects of procuring innovation in the urban mobility context? This is what the SPICE workshop on 17th January in Haarlem, the Netherlands, hosted by Rijkswaterstaat, aimed to find out. The workshop, attended by around...

Presentations from SPICE webinar “Boost for Clean Vehicles by Public Procurement”

The European Commission has singled out decarbonisation as a key objective for the European Union and in November last year it published a proposal on the Clean Vehicle Directive, aiming to boost the electrification of European mobility. For public authorities,...

Procurement of Clean, Electric Vehicles Discussed in Recent SPICE Webinar

The European Commission has singled out decarbonisation as a key objective for the European Union and in November last year it published a proposal on the Clean Vehicle Directive, aiming to boost the electrification of European mobility. For public authorities,...

D4.1 Best Practices in Common Procurements

The SPICE project deliverable D4.1 is now added to the SPICE library. The aim of the deliverable D.4.1 is to give a first overview on joint procurement and give a definition of the concept of Common Buyers Groups in the context of SPICE. The report draws the big...

SPICE Workshop: Procurement of Innovation and PPI Approaches and Procurement of Electric Vehicles

Wednesday, 17 January 2018 12:00 - 17:00 (CET) Rijkswaterstaat, Toekanweg 7, Haarlem 2035LC, The Netherlands Please register here. On 17 January, the SPICE project will host a workshop day on the legal and technical aspects of the procurement of innovation...

SPICE Webinar: Boost for Clean Vehicles by Public Procurement

Wednesday 24 January 2018 14:oo – 15:oo (CET) Please register here. Hosted by the SPICE project, this webinar will provide a brief introduction to the use of public procurement to encourage the uptake of alternatively fueled vehicles in Europe. In November 2017, the...

Examples and Challenges of Innovative Procurement and Collaboration in Procurement Discussed at EUROCITIES Mobility Forum in Toulouse

EUROCITIES, the supporter of the SPICE project kindly invited the SPICE team to facilitate a discussion with city representatives in its Mobility Forum in Toulouse on 18th October. The overarching topic of the Mobility Forum was “Innovative mobility for better urban...

SPICE Supports the Common Buyers Groups to Trigger Innovative Procurement

Common (or joint) procurement is the cooperation of two or more authorities in a procurement process. Within SPICE, the focus is on the procurement of innovative solutions in the field of transport and mobility. Common Buyers Groups aim to increase the harmonisation...

Targeted EC Consultation on the Draft Guidance on Public Procurement of Innovation

The purpose of this targeted consultation is to receive stakeholder feedback on the draft Guidance on Public Procurement of Innovation, announced in the Public Procurement package of 3 October 2017. Background The Guidance on Public Procurement of Innovation is part...

Read the Latest Project Developments in the SPICE Newsletter

The SPICE Newsletter was published earlier this week. Read it here and find out what the SPICE consortium has been up to recently. If you wish to receive the SPICE Newsletter in your inbox in the future, please sign up using the form below. Rest assured,...