European UnionNon-profit, Public Institution
Open grounds for pre-commercial procurement of innovative security technologies
Horizon Europe Work Programme Part 6 - Civil Security for Society
Funding Amount
€2.0M - €2.0M
Deadline
12/11/2025
Eligible Organization Types
Non-profit, Public Institution
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Grant Description
Preparatory coordination action to build the grounds for a future pre-commercial procurement action for security technologies. It addresses the need to aggregate public buyers’ demand, map EU supply options, develop common validation and tendering strategies, de-risk a follow-up procurement, and strengthen public procurers’ capacity in innovative security solutions. Outputs include evidence of challenge pertinence, buyer community commitment, market analysis, draft PCP planning, compliance check...
Required Results for Successful Funding
Expected Outcomes
Projects’ results are expected to contribute to one or more of the following:
• Consolidated demand for innovative security technologies via aggregation of public buyers expressing common functional or operational needs without prescribing technical solutions.
• Better informed investment decision-making in innovative security technologies based on improved understanding of potential EU-based supply of technical alternatives addressing common public buyer needs.
• Enhanced visibility of potential EU market demand for common security technologies to support investment decisions.
• Increased capacity of EU public procurers to align requirements with industry and future products and to attract innovation through common validation strategies, rapid innovation, experimentation and pre-commercial procurement.
• Strengthened innovation capacity of EU public procurers through availability of innovative tendering guidance, commonly agreed validation strategies and evidence-based prospects for further joint procurement of common security solutions.
• Consolidated demand for innovative security technologies via aggregation of public buyers expressing common functional or operational needs without prescribing technical solutions.
• Better informed investment decision-making in innovative security technologies based on improved understanding of potential EU-based supply of technical alternatives addressing common public buyer needs.
• Enhanced visibility of potential EU market demand for common security technologies to support investment decisions.
• Increased capacity of EU public procurers to align requirements with industry and future products and to attract innovation through common validation strategies, rapid innovation, experimentation and pre-commercial procurement.
• Strengthened innovation capacity of EU public procurers through availability of innovative tendering guidance, commonly agreed validation strategies and evidence-based prospects for further joint procurement of common security solutions.
Funded areas
Scope Requirements
– End-users and public procurers from multiple EU Member States or Associated Countries jointly acquire R&D services to develop innovative technologies, systems, tools or techniques in one or more of the following security areas: border security; fight against crime and terrorism; protection of infrastructure and public spaces; societal resilience to natural or human-made disasters.
– Outputs must reflect: security policy priorities in Work Programme Part; EU Directive on public procurement (PCP provisions); General Annex H PCP/PPI requirements and funding rates; EC Guidance on Innovation Procurement C(2021)4320 (barrier removal for high-tech start-ups and SMEs).
– Project deliverables must demonstrate: pertinence of the challenge and need for PCP to mature and compare technologies; existence of a committed, consolidated group of potential buyers with common needs; quantifiable wider community sharing these needs; thorough state-of-the-art and market/research mapping with multiple technical alternatives; clear, draft PCP tendering process and timing with all documentation and procedures ready for launch; compliance of future PCP R&D developments with EU societal values, fundamental rights, free movement, privacy and data protection; and comprehensive consideration of societal and gender aspects where relevant.
– Maximum project duration: 12 months.
– Outputs must reflect: security policy priorities in Work Programme Part; EU Directive on public procurement (PCP provisions); General Annex H PCP/PPI requirements and funding rates; EC Guidance on Innovation Procurement C(2021)4320 (barrier removal for high-tech start-ups and SMEs).
– Project deliverables must demonstrate: pertinence of the challenge and need for PCP to mature and compare technologies; existence of a committed, consolidated group of potential buyers with common needs; quantifiable wider community sharing these needs; thorough state-of-the-art and market/research mapping with multiple technical alternatives; clear, draft PCP tendering process and timing with all documentation and procedures ready for launch; compliance of future PCP R&D developments with EU societal values, fundamental rights, free movement, privacy and data protection; and comprehensive consideration of societal and gender aspects where relevant.
– Maximum project duration: 12 months.
Additional Conditions for Applicants
Special Conditions
– Eligibility: minimum participation of 6 end-user organisations and at least 3 public procurers (one organisation may count in both categories) from at least 3 different EU Member States or Associated Countries.
– Applicants must complete the “Information about security practitioners” annex in the application form using the provided template.
– Open market consultations must be carried out in at least three EU Member States or Associated Countries.
– Lump-sum funding model; eligible costs and funding conditions as per Lump Sum Decision and Horizon Europe General Annexes (Annex G).
– Admissibility, eligibility of countries, financial and operational capacity, exclusion, evaluation criteria and procedures follow Horizon Europe General Annexes A–F and relevant Work Programme sections.
– Application and evaluation use standard HE CSA forms and adapted evaluation templates; grant awarded under Horizon Lump Sum Grant (HORIZON-AG-LS) model.
– Applicants must complete the “Information about security practitioners” annex in the application form using the provided template.
– Open market consultations must be carried out in at least three EU Member States or Associated Countries.
– Lump-sum funding model; eligible costs and funding conditions as per Lump Sum Decision and Horizon Europe General Annexes (Annex G).
– Admissibility, eligibility of countries, financial and operational capacity, exclusion, evaluation criteria and procedures follow Horizon Europe General Annexes A–F and relevant Work Programme sections.
– Application and evaluation use standard HE CSA forms and adapted evaluation templates; grant awarded under Horizon Lump Sum Grant (HORIZON-AG-LS) model.
Important dates
Open from: 12/06/2025
Deadline:12/11/2025
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