Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2019-04-04
Buyer: Athena Research and Innovation Center in Information Communication and Knowledge Technologies Artemidos 6 and Epidavrou
Country: GR
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 72262000: Software development services
Estimated value: 360000 EUR
EU fund: Horizon Europe

Technical requirements: Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) to buy R&D (Research and Development) Services and Integrate them to the OpenAIRE Platform
This PIN provides all potential interested economic operators with early information about the public procurement of innovative ICT solutions to address the following challenges and announces an open market consultation that is organised in preparation of this procurement.
The procurement aims to trigger new solutions to be developed and tested to address the identified Challenges
That the OpenAIRE infrastructure is facing. The procurement will be divided into the following lots, each corresponding to one challenge:
You can participate in the PCP call for tender even if you did not participate in the open market consultation. All submissions should respect and fulfill the proposal submission process and requirements.
1) 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 operator will be awarded a Framework Agreement that covers 2 R&D phases. The 2 phases are:
— prototyping, original development and validation, testing and integration of a limited set 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 (in terms of budget) and grade solutions will be offered a specific contract for the next phase. The phased approach with parallel contracts and intermediate evaluations will be followed within each lot. The procurement is expected to start in July 2019 and end in October 2020.
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.
The vision underlying the work of next generation repositories is, “to position repositories as the foundation for a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication, on top of which layers of value added services will be deployed, thereby transforming the system, making it more research-centric, open to and supportive of innovation, while also collectively managed by the scholarly community.”
An important component of this vision is that repositories will provide access to a wide variety of research outputs, creating the conditions whereby a greater diversity of contributions to the scholarly record will be accessible, and formally recognized in research assessment processes.
In April 2016, the confederation of open access repositories (COAR) launched the Next Generation Repository Working Group to identify new functionalities and technologies for repositories. A full report with recommendations for the adoption of new technologies, standards and protocols that will help repositories become more integrated into the web environment and enable them to play a larger role in the scholarly communication ecosystem is here:
In general, repositories form a distributed global knowledge network and have the potential to promote the transformation of the scholarly communication ecosystem. 1 of the barriers is a lack of web-based integration with other innovative scholarly services. There is a clear need for repository platforms to adopt modern web technologies and protocols that will allow them to better interact with more innovative and sophisticated scholarly networked tools and services.


Award value: 360000