Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2023-12-26
Buyer: Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
Country: TR
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 30211300 | 72000000 | 72212931 | 72230000: Custom software development services | 72243000
Estimated value: 5640000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2024-04-01
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: Horizon Europe

Technical requirements: This PCP is carried out by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality who was appointed as lead procurer in the name and on behalf of the Buyers Group listed in I.1. The applicable national law is Turkish.
CircularPSP: Pre-commercial procurement (PCP) to buy R&D (research and development) services to develop a Public Service Platforms for Circular, Innovative and Resilient Municipalities.
This contract notice invites interested operators to submit tenders to this PCP procurement. The procurement is open on equal terms to all types of operators that are established in EU Member States and Horizon Europe associated countries  and that fulfil the requirements set out in section 3 of the Call for Tenders which defines the eligibility of tenderers, exclusion and selection criteria.
The procurement aims to trigger new solutions to be developed and tested to address the following challenge: accelerating a digital transition towards a Circular Economy (CE). The procurers are willing to invest €5.64 million in Research and Development to address this challenge in their regions.
This PCP is a joint procurement by different procurers across Europe that are all facing the same common challenge and are thus looking for similar solutions (‘Buyers Group’).
Testing is expected to take place in the following procurers’ countries: Istanbul (TR), Berlin (DE), Dublin (IE), Maribor (SI), Guimarães (PT), Stockholm (SE), London (UK).) Helsinki (FIN)
This PCP procurement is a joint procurement by different procurers across Europe that are all facing the same common challenge and are thus looking for similar solutions (so-called ‘Buyers Group’).
The common challenge to be solved by suppliers is Suppliers are to design, develop and test an innovative ‘circular economy solution’ (CE-solution) that enables municipalities and their staff as well as businesses in the local economy to apply circular practice more quickly, frequently, widely and effectively. Individual users at City and Business are empowered through access to information, knowledge, circular wisdom, guidance and training to act more circular more often and increasingly impactful whilst transitioning to a CE mindset.
The procurement will take the form of a pre-commercial procurement (PCP) under which R&D service contracts will be awarded to a number of R&D providers in parallel in a phased approach. This will make it possible to compare competing alternative solutions.
Each selected R&D provider will be awarded a framework agreement that covers the following R&D phases and a specific contract per phase.
The 3 phases are: solution design, prototype development, original development and validation and testing of a limited volume of first products or services.
After each phase, intermediate evaluations will be carried out to progressively select the best of the competing solutions. The contractors with the best-value-for-money solutions will be offered a specific contract for the next phase.
Testing in Phase 3 is expected to take place in Istanbul (Turkey), Berlin (Germany), Dublin (Ireland), Maribor (Slovenia), Guimarães (Portugal), Stockholm (Sweden), Helsinki (Finland) and London (UK). This testing may also serve as a first customer test reference for the contractors. Phase 3 is expected to start June 2025 and end May 2026.
The selected operators will retain ownership of the intellectual property rights (IPRs) that they generate during the PCP and will be able to use them to exploit the full market potential of the developed solutions, i.e. beyond the procurement.
This procurement receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme, under Grant Agreement No 101092208 - CircularPSP (see https://circularpsp.eu). The EU has given a grant for this procurement but is not participating as a contracting authority in the procurement.


Award value: 5640000