Online questionnaire for European Blockchain Pre-Commercial Procurement is live

18 January 2020, Source : European Commission, Digital Single Market

The European Blockchain PCP

The European Commission invites all interested market parties to participate in the open market consultation for its upcoming European Blockchain Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP).

The PCP is looking for novel blockchain solutions for the European Blockchain Service Infrastructure.

The open market consultation offers a unique opportunity to provide feedback on the scope of the future PCP and to be involved in and co-create the future development of EU-wide blockchain solutions. Share your views and ideas by completing the online questionnaire (deadline 2 March 2020).

The open market consultation

The open market consultation aims to provide you with a better understanding of the procurement objectives and the PCP process. It also aims to obtain market parties’ input to assess the gap between the procurement need and ongoing market developments in the field of Blockchain. It is a unique opportunity to provide feedback on the scope of the future PCP and to be involved in and co-create the future development of innovative EU-wide blockchain solutions. You also have the opportunity to ask questions.

The open market consultation is organised in English in the form of several activities:

• Online questionnaire is now live: please complete the questionnaire by 02/03/20
• Open Market Consultation Event in the week of 11/03/2020 in Brussels, Belgium. Registration details will follow later.
• Individual face-to-face meetings with the EC (to be confirmed) in March 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. Registration details will follow later.
• A webinar took place on 14/01/20 (slides presented at webinar)

Check out the open market consultation document that provides more background information about the European Blockchain PCP and the organisation of the open market consultation.You may wish to read also more background information about the European blockchain strategy and what is pre-commercial procurement.

Questions about the European Blockchain Pre-Commercial Procurement can be posed during the above open market consultation activities, or via e-mail (CNECT-F3@ec.europa.eu). The answers to all questions are published in this Q&A document.

The Prior information notice for the open market consultation was published in TED on 13 December 2019.