DIRECTION DES FINANCES ET DES ACHATS

INNOVATION PROCUREMENT OF THE CITY OF PARIS

27/10/2015

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SUMMARY

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I – Innovation procurement characteristics

II – Focus on 2 current legal tools

III - Another way to innovate: cross-border joint procurement

IV - A new legal tool: the Innovation Partnership

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• Facilitating and encouraging the relationship between public procurers and economic operators

• Defining needs by using functional specifications

• Allowing variants

• Award criteria promoting innovation

I- Innovation procurement characteristics

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•Award of framework agreement to a single bidder (e.g., payment of parking by phone)

•Competitive dialogue procedure (e.g., travelers' shelters)

II- Focus on 2 current legal tools

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Competitive dialogue: Travelers shelters

2010-2012: call for projects regarding Smart Urban FurnitureMarket consultation/users’ surveyCompetitive dialogue: the process

Preparatory phase

Competitive dialogue procedure

Award of the procurement contract by the tender award Committee

Paris Council endorsed the decision to authorize the Mayor to sign the award

Notifying the award decision

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Competitive dialogue: Travellers shelter

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• Meeting of the mayors of European capitals (March 2015) and COP 21 (December 2015)

• Joint procurement by the European cities and communities for low-carbon supplies and services

• The City and Department of Paris, the City of Brussels, Brussels Propreté, the City of Strasbourg, Greater Strasbourg Area, Greater Bordeaux Area, the City of Athens, the City of Tallinn, the City of Rome, the City of Copenhagen, the City of Madrid, the City of Lisbon and Lyon Greater Area

• The City of Paris is designated as lead tendering authority: it is in charge of conducting the procurement in the name and on behalf of all participating public procurers (light vehicles).

III- Another way to innovate: cross-border joint procurement

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•Addresses needs that cannot be met by the goods, services or works already available on the market

•Allows one single competition procedure including an R&D procurement and a commercial procurement

•Recent transposition into French law

IV – A new legal tool: the Innovation Partnership