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Are you a company or a technological center developing innovative solutions in these topics? This future tender could be of your interest! The Public Procurement of Innovation is a great opportunity for companies to get a contract to develop innovative solutions.

The conference will be held the 7th of May 2019 from 09.00 h to 13.45 h at ACCIÓ Barcelona. However, if you are interested in attending but you cannot go to ACCIÓ, you will have the opportunity to attend the session by Webinar. After filling in the inscription form, you will receive an e-mail with the link to access it.

You will meet the buyers of this Open Market Consultation in the ICT sector for the ARCHIVER project: CERN, PORT D'INFORMACIÓ CIENTÍFICA, DESY, EMBL-EBI. By acting as a collective of procurers, the consortium will create an ecosystem for specialist ICT companies active in archiving, who would like to introduce new services capable of supporting the expanding needs of research communities but are currently prevented from doing so because there is no common procurement activity for the advanced stewardship of publicly funded data in Europe.

ARCHIVER’s final goal is to allow research group to retain ownership of their data whilst leveraging best practices, standards and economies of scale. Using a PreCommercial Procurement instrument, the ARCHIVER project will introduce radical improvements in the area of archiving and digital preservation services, thus closing critical gaps between what is increasingly required by funding agencies, requested by data creators and eventual (re)users and what is currently commercially available.

The conference is an excellent opportunity to know in more detail the opportunities and models of the Public Procurement of Innovation. And you will know more about ARCHIVER, this future tender, that will demand and combine multiple ICT technologies, including extreme data-scaling, network connectivity, service interoperability and business models, in a hybrid cloud environment to deliver end-to-end archival and preservation services that cover the full research life cycle. Commercial services for Digital Preservation that are currently available have not been proven to scale to the "petabyte region and beyond", not address the complex data types, often domain-specific, that are needed by many scientific disciplines. In-house services – where they exist – have often not acquired the degree of “trustworthiness” verified through certification schemes.