Horizon Security: Pre-Commercial Procurement
Funds one €5.83M project where public security procurers and practitioners jointly commission and test rival prototypes through a procurement tender.
Public security agencies need new technology, but most public buying only works for products that already exist. There's rarely a channel for a group of buyers with the same unmet need to commission something new together, and a startup with a real solution struggles to get a first public customer to prove it works. This topic funds fixing that gap directly, not through a normal R&D grant.
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Running a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) process for civil security technology. A buyer's group of at least 3 security practitioners and at least 3 public procurers designs and launches a competitive call for tenders, then pays at least two different R&D teams to design, build, and validate rival prototypes in a real operational environment. The grant funds that tender and the R&D services it buys — not a single company's own product development.
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