In its first eight months, the iProcureSecurity PCP project has made major progress towards its goal of developing the phase 0 within the PCP procedure.
In order to reach the results, as first step the project coordinator established an efficient and well-structured project management and coordination plan and a quality management plan. In order to enable efficient and effective implementation of the activities, a common digital working space has been set up and it is used to share and jointly work on documents and tasks and to gather and analyse information. As part of the coordination and management activities, the consortium submitted the first data management plan (WP1).
Furthermore, the consortium appointed an external ethics advisor, who is actively supporting the project since November 2021 (WP10).
Additionally, the partners have been strongly engaged in the research and analysis activities of the project, which have been carried out through desk-based research, literature reviews, focus groups, workshops and templates circulation for the collection and analysis of information from the procurers. These activities enable the identification of the requirements, the creation of the use cases and service process models (WP2), paving the way to create comprehensive Call for tender Documents (WP3). This enabled to partners also to create a common terminology in order to harmonise and standardise core concepts and terms and therefore to facilitate the understanding of the requirements and the better outline the several processes.
Moreover, major progress has been made, finalising the WP3, including the successful organisation and delivery of the Open Market Consultation events, which enabled the first communication channels with potential suppliers.
In addition, the Innovation Procurement Platform has been built, launched and regularly improved and updated with new content. The Innovation Procurement Platform will serve the suppliers for the creation of consortia, for the submission and for the evaluation (WP3).
Lastly, the whole consortium proactively worked in order to maximise the impacts and the results of the iProcureSecurity PCP project. To do so, a structured communication and dissemination plan has been setup and the first Dissemination and Communication Package submitted. In particular, this phase was extremely important for the consortium to properly communicate and disseminate the activities related to the Open Market Consultation events. The work implemented included strong social media presence, creation of newsletters, booklets, leaflet, direct emails invitations, video dissemination etc. (WP9).
