FORENINGEN KLIMATORIUM (KLIMATORIUM)

This PCP (Pre-Commercial Procurement) is a cross-border joint procurement of R&D services to reinforce public demand-driven innovation in end-user services in the area of Climate Change Adaptation through data-driven water management. The to-be-developed solutions are expected to achieve TRL 7-8. The PCP should deliver successful, innovative and fully tested product(s) and/or service(s) that meet the common needs of the Public Buyer Group (PBG) to procure research services, develop innovative marketable solutions, speed up the time-to-market and provide best value for money. More concretely, the common needs of the public buyer group are as follows. PCP WISE aims to develop smart, sustainable solutions to improve water management and climate resiliency by monitoring the ‘Soil-Water-Vegetation (SWV) System’. Market entities are challenged to design and develop a solution that achieves this by using and combining earth observation data and environmental data on the SWV-system. This to-be-developed integrated water intelligence information product/service aims to help decision-makers manage major challenges resulting from climate change, such as floods, droughts, wildfires, heat stress and infrastructure risks in both urban and rural areas. The PCP WISE project includes 5 use cases that serve as practical testing scenarios where innovative solutions must demonstrate their effectiveness in real-world conditions. They represent the diverse geographic and climatic contexts of the European continent that provide the reference framework against which the innovations are validated for relevance, resilience and impact. PCP WISE contractors are challenged by designing and developing a solution that is applicable and scalable to tackle all 5 use cases. After evaluation of the tenders received, the PCP will be implemented by means of awarding a Framework Agreement where contractors are developing the solution in competition. It includes call-offs for Specific Contracts for Phase 1: Solution Design, Phase 2: Prototype Development, and Phase 3: Validation and demonstration of the solutions. This project receives funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement number No. 101182917 and selected under the HORIZONCL62024 GOVERNANCE015, topic: Customisation/preoperationalisation of prototypes enduser services in the area Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, with a budget of around €12 million earmarked for the R&D phases during the implementation of the PCP instrument. However, the European Union does not participate as a contracting authority in the procurement.

This PCP (Pre-Commercial Procurement) is a cross-border joint procurement of R&D services to reinforce public demand-driven innovation in end-user services in the area of Climate Change Adaptation through data-driven water management. The to-be-developed solutions are expected to achieve TRL 7-8. The PCP should deliver successful, innovative and fully tested product(s) and/or service(s) that meet the common needs of the Public Buyer Group (PBG) to procure research services, develop innovative marketable solutions, speed up the time-to-market and provide best value for money. More concretely, the common needs of the public buyer group are as follows. PCP WISE aims to develop smart, sustainable solutions to improve water management and climate resiliency by monitoring the ‘Soil-Water-Vegetation (SWV) System’. Market entities are challenged to design and develop a solution that achieves this by using and combining earth observation data and environmental data on the SWV-system. This to-be-developed integrated water intelligence information product/service aims to help decision-makers manage major challenges resulting from climate change, such as floods, droughts, wildfires, heat stress and infrastructure risks in both urban and rural areas. The PCP WISE project includes 5 use cases that serve as practical testing scenarios where innovative solutions must demonstrate their effectiveness in real-world conditions. They represent the diverse geographic and climatic contexts of the European continent that provide the reference framework against which the innovations are validated for relevance, resilience and impact. PCP WISE contractors are challenged by designing and developing a solution that is applicable and scalable to tackle all 5 use cases. Following the completion of the evaluation of the tenders received, the PCP has entered its implementation phase by means of awarding a Framework Agreement where contractors are developing the solution in competition. It includes call-offs for Specific Contracts for Phase 1: Solution Design, Phase 2: Prototype Development, and Phase 3: Validation and demonstration of the solutions. This project receives funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement number No. 101182917 and selected under the HORIZONCL62024 GOVERNANCE015, topic: Customisation/preoperationalisation of prototypes enduser services in the area Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, with a budget of around €12 million earmarked for the R&D phases during the implementation of the PCP instrument. However, the European Union does not participate as a contracting authority in the procurement.

This Prior Information Notice announces an OMC and provides early information in preparation for a future PCP carried out by the PCP WISE project (Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions for Water Management from Space). This project receives funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement number No. 101182917 and selected under the HORIZON-CL6-2024-GOVERNANCE-01-5, topic: Customisation/pre-operationalisation of prototypes end-user services in the area Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation (see EU Funding & Tenders Portal - https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-cl6-2024-governance-01-5), with a budget of €12 million earmarked for the R&D phases during the implementation of the PCP instrument. However, the European Union does not participate as a contracting authority in the procurement. PCP WISE aims to challenge the market to develop innovative solutions (up to TRL8) to improve water management, particularly in the fields of agriculture, urban climate resilience and planning, climate risk management and resilience to water-related natural disasters, using satellite based earth observation data, hydrological models, field data and artificial intelligence in order to provide intelligence on rural and urban soil-water-vegetation-system-conditions and related risks per sector. By leveraging space technology and environmental observation data, PCP WISE seeks to address critical challenges related to floods, fires, and infrastructure impacts both in rural and urban areas. This collaborative effort brings together public buyers, research institutions, and industry experts to create and implement advanced climate services that will enhance Europe's ability to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change. Therefore, it marks the start of an ambitious international collaboration dedicated to the sustainable management of water resources and the need to enlarge climate resilience across Europe. PCP WISE focuses on five distinct use cases, each addressing specific water-related challenges in different regions of Europe (North, South, West, and East) and geographical contexts (urban and rural) on flood, drought, subsidence, fire, or other concerns distinguishing between issues of a regular nature and those arising from crisis situations. For more information about the use cases, please see the OMC document. COMMUNICATION: Additional information can be obtained from the PCP WISE website* (PCP WISE: Pre-Commercial Procurement - Water management Innovation from Space for European climate resilience - https://pcp-wise.eu/open-market-consultation/) and/or the e-Procurement Platform** ( https://pcp-wise.tuttogare.it/index.php ). All the questions regarding the Open Market Consultation (OMC) should be asked through the PCP WISE OMC-Module in the aforementioned e-Procurement Platform. In the case of other issues (e.g. technical issues with the platform), the e-mail address of the Lead Procurer (see contact point) can be used. *The project’s official website will indicatively include information about the project, its Consortium, relevant news and events, matchmaking & networking opportunities, the PCP WISE’s Community Platform, the project’s social media and communication outputs as well as the OMC Documents. **Studio Amica’s e-Procurement Platform is a public procurement management software. Specifically the PCP-module of the platform will allow the PCP WISE Consortium to fully carry out the preliminary market consultation of PCP WISE and the future follow-up tender in compliance with the applicable European legislation. Finally, a Request for Information (RfI) questionnaire will provide the PCP WISE consortium with feedback from the market about its main challenge and use cases. Technology providers are invited to answer all the questions of the survey (one survey per company). The questionnaire should be filled out online and submitted via the following link: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/PCP-WISE