Workshop on Making Innovation Work for Public Procurement
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Workshop on Making Innovation Work
for Public Procurement
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Venue: Villa Bighi Kalkara
A growing number of European countries are currently developing initiatives which reward research and innovation in the public procurement process. The European Union is underlining the importance of these initiatives and the 2,769th Council Meeting on Competitiveness under the Finnish Presidency placed 'innovative procurement' as one of the seven horizontal pillars that the EU should concentrate on to increase competitiveness. The Slovenian Presidency continues with this drive through current efforts to promote public procurement in pre-commercial research. Use of procurement is also a central element in the Commission’s recently announced Lead Markets Initiative which seeks to foster innovation in areas of high growth potential and socio-economic importance through a package of measures that foster market development.
The National Strategy for Research and Innovation: 2007-2010 launched by Government in August 2006 argues that "there is one powerful instrument which government departments and entities must apply to promote R&I - public procurement. Indeed, Recommendation No 25 of the Strategy stipulates that MCST and the Contracts Division should introduce transparent mechanisms to reward R&I through public procurement.
In 2007, the Malta Council for Science and Technology together with the Ministry of Finance and the Contracts Division launched the first in a series of joint workshops on Innovative Public Procurement. The aim of the first Workshop was to inculcate knowledge amongst the senior leadership within Government entities - both the traditional public service as well as the broader public sector - on what constitutes innovative procurement, its uses, how it can leverage innovation and innovative solutions, and the issues that need to be considered when applying innovative procurement as a procurement vehicle of strategic choice. It was envisaged that this first workshop would be followed by a number of other workshops to address the legal framework, tender design and monitoring and evaluation aspects.
This second workshop will provide an update on developments in public procurement for research and innovation in goods and services at European and national level. The workshop will also feature a presentation of the results of an ongoing FP6 Project (OMC-PTP Open Method of Coordination - Public technology procurement) brings together policy makers and practitioners together and provides a platform of mutual learning concerning various forms of pre-commercial procurement - not exclusively technology procurement ( http://www.omc-ptp.eu/pages/overview.php).
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