Demand-led innovation through public procurement

End-users and public procurers from several countries are invited to send proposals for launching a Pre-Commercial Procurement action for the acquisition of R&D services for the development of innovative civil security technology solutions.

The proposals should build on the outcomes of CSA projects funded under previous work programmes aimed at creating Stronger grounds for pre-commercial procurement of innovative security technologies [for example, topic HORIZON-CL3-2022-SSRI-01-03: Stronger grounds for pre-commercial procurement of innovative security technologies.]. The successful proposals could therefore give continuity to the works initiated by those CSA projects.

The proposals are expected to provide clear evidence on a number of aspects in order to justify and de-risk the PCP action, including:

• That the challenge is pertinent and that indeed a PCP action is required to complete the maturation cycle of certain technologies and to compare different altern