Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-10-30
Buyer: Hamburger Informatik Technologie-Center e. V. (HITeC)
Country: DE
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72200000
Submission deadline: 2018-12-07
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: Horizon Europe

Technical requirements: Please note that this Open Call is no procedure to award public contracts and that Hamburger Informatik Technologie-Center e. V. (HITeC) is no Contracting Authority in accordance with Directive 2014/24/EU of 26.2.2014 on public procurement. This Open Call is only published on TED for transparency reasons.
OpenReq (Intelligent recommendation and decision technologies for community-driven requirements engineering) is a European research and innovation project funded under the Horizon 2020 programme. OpenReq addresses the challenging objective of creating a platform of services to semi-automatically support collaborative decision-making in large software projects. The focus is on requirements engineering-related decisions, such as requirement quality improvement, release planning, and requirements reuse.
In this Open Call, we seek proposals from eligible parties who want to integrate, extend, and evaluate OpenReq technologies for tools, processes, and use cases of their interest.
— contribute to the dissemination and exploitation activities of the OpenReq project (e.g., blogging or attending events).
— smoothly integrate relevant OpenReq features into popular — preferably open source — tools, including issue trackers (e.g., Bugzilla, Jira, GitHub Issues), requirements management tools, release planning tools, communication tools, and office tools,
— collect usage and context data from the applicant’s apps and tools, or from popular ones, using a framework developed for this specific purpose,
— integrate OpenReq services into intelligent conversational interfaces (e.g., chatbot, Siri, Alexa.) for quick and easy natural language querying — e.g., to support stakeholder meetings,
— integrate popular platforms, such as StackOverflow, as a data source for the OpenReq services. StackOverflow is one of the primary resources for developers to discuss issues, complain about functionalities, exchange needs, and nice-to-haves,
— Integrate requirements quality improvement approaches, such as reducing the ambiguity of requirements text, into popular word processors via ad-hoc plugins,
— integrate OpenReq user participation approach, based on Liquid Democracy, in an app. For example, give users the possibility to participate in the prioritization of requirements by acquiring tokens from a smart contract set up by a group of stakeholders.
Detailed information can be found at the OpenReq website and on the Open Call documents available at https://openreq.eu/opencall/ and https://www.subreport.de/E13981876.
To fund and assist eligible entities to profit from the research and innovation results of OpenReq, interested parties can submit their proposal at https://www.subreport.de/E13981876.
The total budget for this Open Call is 180 000 EUR, and it will be used to subcontract entities from at least three different EU countries. We expect proposals requesting up to 30 000 EUR; the panel will not consider proposals requesting funding over this limit. The number of funded projects will vary depending on the complexity, relevance and requested budget of the proposals. The panel will make recommendations on the amount of investment; therefore, it may not exactly match the requested funding. The payment will follow a staged schedule according to the subcontracting agreement. Regarding the eligible costs, participation as a third party in an H2020 project will cover all the incurred costs.
Note that the selected applicants may be audited by the EU Commission in accordance with the Art. 13 of the H2020 Grant Agreement.
Please note that this Open Call is no procedure to award public contracts and that Hamburger Informatik Technologie-Center e. V. (HITeC) is no Contracting Authority in accordance with Directive 2014/24/EU of 26.2.2014 on public procurement. This Open Call is only published on TED for transparency reasons.

Eligibility requirements: The call is addressed to EU legal entities (i.e., registered with a VAT number), including: — European SMEs following the definition in the Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC? — entrepreneurs from software engineering, software technology, analytics and intelligence, market research industries as well as companies that use (or intend to use) these technologies intensively as a business enabler, — open source evangelists and key players OSS communities, — individuals, such as experienced developers encountering the challenges addressed by OPENREQ.