by Sylvia CUCINELLI | Oct 16, 2021
The French Ministry of Interior is set to represent the iProcureNet at the Milipol Fair from 19th to 22nd October 2021. You will get to learn more about the project and meet key project members at the French Ministry’s stand in the exhibition. Don’t miss us!
What is Milipol? In their own words,
Organized under the patronage of the French Ministry of the Interior, Milipol, the world’s leading security and safety event, will be inaugurated on October 19 by the Minister, Gérald DARMANIN. With 1,000 exhibitors, 30,000 French and international visitors and 150 official delegations expected, this 22nd edition is a unique opportunity to discover the latest technological innovations in homeland security, share the market vision and all the knowledge of international experts who will speak in French and English, in different formats:
keynotes, conferences, case studies or round tables.
In partnership with the Institut des Hautes Etudes du Ministère de l’Intérieur (IHEMI), Milipol Paris is staging a new series of talks focusing on international issues for homeland security. Yann Jounot, Préfet, Chairman & CEO of Civipol and President of the Milipol trade fairs, will introduce the opening talk on the main theme: Peacetime, Times of crisis, Exchanges at European level.
For more information, consult: https://en.milipol.com/
by Sylvia CUCINELLI | Jul 21, 2021
On 3rd and 4th March 2022, the French Ministry of Interior represented iProcureNet and participated to a key event organised by the Directorate for International Security Cooperation (DCIS) of the French Ministry of Interior.
Titled “European Network of Law Enforcement Technology Services (ENLETS) TIG”, this event was held in the framework of the French Presidency of the EU. The aim of the conference was to explore ways of meeting the needs and the standards of the European Commission and/or other European actors.
Furthermore, this was an occasion to promote and present the iProcureNet project, to exchange knowledge and strategies, and get inspired by the positive experiences of other projects funded by the European Commission.
Among others, the projects and networks ILEAnet (which aims to build a sustainable organisational Law Enforcement Agency (LEA) practitioners network focused on research and innovation), and i-LEAD (a collective of experienced professionals exercising individual or team coaching) were invited.
Two French innovative solutions were presented: DATALAB – active in the field of IT solutions – and PCSTORM – a project concerning the modernisation of the internal security sector, with a focus on information systems).
Moreover, representatives of the Europol Innovation Lab, the European Commission, and the Dutch police took part to the meeting, which therefore helped disseminating the concept of the iProcureNet project and fostered new connections both in France and in Europe.
by Sylvia CUCINELLI | Jul 3, 2021
iProcureNet participated on 2 July 2021 to the CERIS-SSRI webinar “Public Procurement as a catalyst of innovation for security”.
This event also attracted the participation of nearly 250 policy makers and 100 representatives from the industry sector. About 50 members of the scientific community in the field of security and procurement were in attendance, including from the Greek Center for Security Studies KEMEA and the University of Tartu who are respectively members of the iProcureNet Consortium and members of the iProcureNet Network+Community.
The webinar gathered presentation from several European institutions and agencies, such as the DG HOME of the European Commission and FRONTEX, as well as national Ministries, like the Dutch Ministries of Justice and Security and of Infrastructure and Water Management, and the Slovak Ministry of Interior.
The webinar explored key topics in public procurement and innovation, value engineering in cross-border procurement, and the role of PCP in the security sector.
Moreover, the French Ministry of Interior, as iProcureNet Coordinator, moderated a panel about joint cross-border public procurement. The event was particularly important to discuss issues that are at the core of iProcureNet topics and to find potential new members of the Network+Community.
by Sylvia CUCINELLI | Apr 1, 2021
The iProcureNet Annual Conference for 2021 gathered 6 fascinating talks and presentations from DG Home, French Ministry of Interior, Estonian Border Police, Portuguese Criminal Police, Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic, French National Procurement Agency, as well as representatives of the following projects/initiatives in two seperate roundtable: i-LEAD, ILEAnet, ENCIRCLE, PEN-CP, FOLDOUT, SPARTA, NAAS and Broadway.
Today, the spotlight is on the presentation from Jozef Kubinec, iProcureNet WP4 Leader from the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic, titled ‘Joint cross border public procurement: Experiences obstacles, pitfalls’.
In his presentation, Jozef Kubinec disseminated the results of the 1st iProcureNet survey on JCBPP.
A live poll was run among participants to find out how common JCBPP is in current procurement practice. To the question of “Have you already taken part in a joint cross-border public procurement”, participants gave the following answers:
- 8% have taken part in a JCBPP
- 92 % have not
Based on these results and from answers obtained during the survey, it can be concluded that JCBPP is a relatively rare procedure in the public procurement environment.
Several important questions were raised from the audience during the presentation:
- Does JCBPP require one Member State authority to take the lead? The answer is that it depends on the method chosen. If the institutions use the services of a central procurement body from one of the member states, the partners do not need to agree on one member state authority to take the lead. The national provision of the member state where the central procurement body is located is used. If several institutions jointly award a public contract, there must be one leader because the tender needs to be done according to a given jurisdiction.
- To what extent are the experiences with PCP relevant for other types of procurement, taking into account that PCP is exempt from the Directive? The answer is that in general, some experience with PCP can also be relevant for other types of procurement procedures under the directive 2014/24/EU,g. good practices in managing the consortium and managing the procurement procedure as deciding on the evaluation of tenders.
- Has financial management among public buyers or ownership of procurement results been studied? Are they considered obstacles to JCBPP? These were not directly identified in the answers as the obstacle to JCBPP. However, intellectual property rights need to analysed more in the next cycle. The suitable work package to analyse it would be in WP3 or WP5. In the case of a PCP, questions related to the ownership of the results are essential if one wants to go through a standard procedure afterwards.
- Concerning the three examples on Defence and Security: were they done under the terms of the Directive on Public Procurement for Defence and Security, or does this only refer to the application of goods and services procured? Answers were that it applies only to the goods and services that were procured. Two were examples of PCP, which were exempt from the Directive 2014/24/EU; one was done as public procurement tender according to the jurisdiction of one participating contracting authority.
Stay tuned and join our Network+Community for more opportunities to learn and exchange about JCBPP.
