Contract
The SELECT for Cities competition is being run by a legal instrument called a Pre-Commercial Procurement Process (PCP). This approach enables the cities of Antwerp, Copenhagen and Helsinki to join forces to procure research and development for an innovative Internet-of-Everything (IoE) platform which is not yet commercially available.
Core details of the approach:
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One total jointly committed budget from which all R&D providers (competition winners) are paid
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One joint call for tender published EU wide
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One lead procurer awarding all contracts in the name and on behalf of all the city procurer's in buyers group
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One joint evaluation of offers with each city participating in the review
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One framework agreement for each winning tenderer covering all competition phases, plus a specific contract per PCP-phase, dependent on subsequent evaluations and offers
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Payments per phase for the chosen tenderers
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No commitment to large scale deployment; no guarantee for a subsequent commercial procurement
IPR is managed as follows:
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Ownership of results and sideground of R&D services stay with the suppliers as fully as possible
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Suppliers and procurers, respectively, will keep ownership of their background IP which they have identified
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Suppliers must grant access rights to the procurers (1)
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Suppliers must ensure that results are commercially exploited; failure to comply will result in a transfer of ownership of the IPR from the supplier to the procurers
