![]() The Tenderer may be a single entity or two or more entities working together as a Consortium. In particular, Tenderers must locate the majority of the R&D activities for the PCP contract, including in particular the principal researcher(s) working for the PCP contract, in EC Member States or Associated Countries. Participation in this Request for Tenders is open on equal terms to all types of economic operators, regardless of their geographic location, size or governance structure, provided that they comply with all of the Exclusion Criteria. The total budget for the entire Pre-Commercial Procurement is 3.4 M euro. Its purpose is to award several Framework Agreements and Work Orders for the provision of R&D services to meet the innovation challenges of European Research communities and provide key building blocks of the European Open Science Cloud. On 29 January 2020 ARCHIVER launched its Request for Tender. ![]() ![]() “The Pre-commercial Procurement is one of the innovation instruments that the EC is offering, where the public research sector partners with the private sector to develop added value, “close to market” R&D services.” João Fernandes, CERN and ARCHIVER project coordinator. Using the EC Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP instrument) ARCHIVER’s goal is to fulfil these data management promises providing the broader research community with a set of trustworthy scientific data repository services, following standard best practices, tested at scale, serving FAIR data, sustainable with transparent business models associated and fully conformant with the current European legislation. Many research projects cannot manage their data, as the archiving and preservation services are inadequate or fall below expectations while data stewardship costs are frequently underestimated during the planning phase. The deadline for submission of Tenders is 31 March 2020. With a total budget of 3.4 Million euro, the ARCHIVER Pre-Commercial Procurement Tender is calling companies specialised in archiving and data preservation, cloud services and data management to provide R&D services to meet the innovation challenges for research communities in Europe. Providing the European Open Science Cloud research communities with trustworthy repository services for scientific data: ARCHIVER launches its Pre-Commercial Procurement Tender.
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