Horizon Civil Security: Public Procurement of Innovation
Funds a cross-border consortium of public procurers and practitioners to jointly buy near-market civil security technology — not to build it.
This grant pays for buying, not building. It's a Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions (PPI) topic: the money goes to a group of public bodies who run a real tender together and buy civil security technology that already works, not a research project chasing a prototype.
The technology has to be past the lab. It needs to be proven at small scale already, and available in small quantities, bu…
Funding for a consortium of public procurers, and the practitioner organisations working with them, to run an open market consultation, publish an EU-wide call for tenders, and jointly buy near-market civil security solutions — technology already proven at small scale but not yet produced or adopted widely. The grant covers the procurement process itself, not a research project.
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