4 www.hetwaterschapshuis.nl ORG-0001 Het Waterschapshuis (hWh) Stationsplein 89 Amersfoort  3818 LE NL350 NLD 913379646 Joost Buntsma +31 33 460 3100 pcpwise@hetwaterschapshuis.nl ORG-0002 STICHTING TOEGEPAST ONDERZOEK WATERBEHEER (STOWA) Stationplein 89 Amersfoort 3818 LE NL350 NLD 995961372 +31 33 460 3100 pcpwise@hetwaterschapshuis.nl ORG-0003 FORUM VIRIUM HELSINKI OY (FV-Helsinki) UNIONINKATU 24 Helsinki 00130 FI1B1 FIN 997534324 +31 33 460 3100 pcpwise@hetwaterschapshuis.nl ORG-0004 MINISTERSTVO VNUTRA SLOVENSKEJ REPUBLIKY (MoI) Pribinova 2 Bratislava 81272 SK010 SVK 916230088 +31 33 460 3100 pcpwise@hetwaterschapshuis.nl ORG-0005 GEMEENTE HAARLEM (CITY OF HAARLEM) Grote Markt 2 Haarlem 2003 RN NL32A NLD 927684430 +31 33 460 3100 pcpwise@hetwaterschapshuis.nl ORG-0006 BUNDESANSTALT TECHNISCHES HILFSWERK (THW) Provinzialstrasse 93 Bonn 53127 DEA22 DEU 880119219 +31 33 460 3100 pcpwise@hetwaterschapshuis.nl ORG-0007 REGION OF CENTRAL MACEDONIA (RCM) Vasilissis Olgas 198 Thessaloniki 54110 EL522 GRC 951347774 +31 33 460 3100 pcpwise@hetwaterschapshuis.nl ORG-0008 FORENINGEN KLIMATORIUM (KLIMATORIUM) Havnen 8 Lemvig 7620 DK041 DNK 896462167 +31 33 460 3100 pcpwise@hetwaterschapshuis.nl ORG-0009 BENEGO – GRENSPARK KALMTHOUTSE HEIDE Rouwmoer 7c Essen 2910 BE211 BEL 886637231 +31 33 460 3100 pcpwise@hetwaterschapshuis.nl ORG-0010 INSTITUT CARTOGRAFIC I GEOLOGIC DE CATALUNYA (ICGC) Parc de Montjuic SN Barcelona 08038 ES511 ESP 935977542 +31 33 460 3100 pcpwise@hetwaterschapshuis.nl ORG-0011 GEMEENTE ROTTERDAM (City of Rotterdam) Meent 106 Rotterdam 3001 AB NL366 NLD 998914925 +31 33 460 3100 pcpwise@hetwaterschapshuis.nl ORG-0012 SLOVENSKA AGENTURA ZIVOTNEHO PROSTREDIA (SLOVAK ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY) (SEA) Tajovskeho 28 Banska Bystrica 97590 SK032 SVK 998833057 +31 33 460 3100 pcpwise@hetwaterschapshuis.nl https://op.europa.eu ORG-0000 Publications Office of the European Union Luxembourg 2417 LU000 LUX PUBL +352 29291 ted@publications.europa.eu 00213317-202565/20252025-04-02+02:00 2.3 eforms-sdk-1.13 3cf0d434-270d-4665-bafa-f3c981068a63 2025-04-01Z 09:47:01Z 01 2025-09-15+02:00 32014L0024 pin-only ENG ra gen-pub ORG-0001 ted-esen ORG-0000 ra gen-pub ORG-0002 body-pl-la gen-pub ORG-0003 cga gen-pub ORG-0004 la gen-pub ORG-0005 la gen-pub ORG-0011 ra gen-pub ORG-0007 body-pl-cga soc-pro ORG-0006 body-pl env-pro ORG-0008 int-org gen-pub ORG-0009 body-pl env-pro ORG-0010 body-pl-cga env-pro ORG-0012 Open Market Consultation (OMC) for a future Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) of R&D (research and development) services on the climate adaptation domain using space and EO (Earth Observation)-based information to prevent and mitigate water related crisis challenges to increase climate resilience in Europe – PCP WISE This Prior Information Notice announces an OMC and provides early information in preparation for a future PCP carried out by the PCP WISE project (Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions for Water Management from Space). This project receives funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement number No. 101182917 and selected under the HORIZON-CL6-2024-GOVERNANCE-01-5, topic: Customisation/pre-operationalisation of prototypes end-user services in the area Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation (see EU Funding & Tenders Portal - https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-cl6-2024-governance-01-5), with a budget of €12 million earmarked for the R&D phases during the implementation of the PCP instrument. However, the European Union does not participate as a contracting authority in the procurement. PCP WISE aims to challenge the market to develop innovative solutions (up to TRL8) to improve water management, particularly in the fields of agriculture, urban climate resilience and planning, climate risk management and resilience to water-related natural disasters, using satellite based earth observation data, hydrological models, field data and artificial intelligence in order to provide intelligence on rural and urban soil-water-vegetation-system-conditions and related risks per sector. By leveraging space technology and environmental observation data, PCP WISE seeks to address critical challenges related to floods, fires, and infrastructure impacts both in rural and urban areas. This collaborative effort brings together public buyers, research institutions, and industry experts to create and implement advanced climate services that will enhance Europe's ability to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change. Therefore, it marks the start of an ambitious international collaboration dedicated to the sustainable management of water resources and the need to enlarge climate resilience across Europe. PCP WISE focuses on five distinct use cases, each addressing specific water-related challenges in different regions of Europe (North, South, West, and East) and geographical contexts (urban and rural) on flood, drought, subsidence, fire, or other concerns distinguishing between issues of a regular nature and those arising from crisis situations. For more information about the use cases, please see the OMC document. COMMUNICATION: Additional information can be obtained from the PCP WISE website* (PCP WISE: Pre-Commercial Procurement - Water management Innovation from Space for European climate resilience - https://pcp-wise.eu/open-market-consultation/) and/or the e-Procurement Platform** ( https://pcp-wise.tuttogare.it/index.php ). All the questions regarding the Open Market Consultation (OMC) should be asked through the PCP WISE OMC-Module in the aforementioned e-Procurement Platform. In the case of other issues (e.g. technical issues with the platform), the e-mail address of the Lead Procurer (see contact point) can be used. *The project’s official website will indicatively include information about the project, its Consortium, relevant news and events, matchmaking & networking opportunities, the PCP WISE’s Community Platform, the project’s social media and communication outputs as well as the OMC Documents. **Studio Amica’s e-Procurement Platform is a public procurement management software. Specifically the PCP-module of the platform will allow the PCP WISE Consortium to fully carry out the preliminary market consultation of PCP WISE and the future follow-up tender in compliance with the applicable European legislation. Finally, a Request for Information (RfI) questionnaire will provide the PCP WISE consortium with feedback from the market about its main challenge and use cases. Technology providers are invited to answer all the questions of the survey (one survey per company). The questionnaire should be filled out online and submitted via the following link: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/PCP-WISE services A PIN announces the OMC of a future PCP of R&D services. PCP is an approach that allows public procurers to buy R&D from several competing suppliers in parallel, to compare alternative solution approaches, and to identify the best value-for-money solutions that the market can deliver to address their needs. It is split into three phases: solution design, prototype implementation, and validation and demonstration of the solutions. In PCP, there is a risk-benefit sharing under market conditions between the public procurer and the suppliers, and a clear separation between the PCP and the deployment of commercial volumes of end-products. PCP procurement is exempted from the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), the EU public procurement directives and the national laws that implement them. The law applicable to the PCP is Dutch law. This PIN is published to announce an OMC for a future PCP procedure on climate adaptation domain. The OMC aims to: (1) Validate the findings of the state-of-the-art analysis and the viability of the set of technical and financial provisions. (2) Raise awareness to the industry regarding the upcoming PCP. (3) Collect insights from the industry which can be used to fine tune the tender specifications and publish a more qualitative tender. All OMC activities, including surveys, the Q&A document, webinars (dates and content) as well as registration information will be published on the project’s website (https://pcp-wise.eu/about/). ELIGIBILITY: In principle, this PIN invites all interested operators to take part in an OMC regardless of their geographic location, the size or governance structure of their organisation, since one of the objectives of the project is to foster international collaboration (e.g. through the matchmaking tool as part of the Community platform developed in PROTECT Project) and encourage suppliers to create consortia resulting in qualitative solutions to address the challenge of PCP WISE. Participation in the OMC is not open to entities that are subject to EU restrictive measures under Article 29 of the Treaty on the European Union (TEU) and Article 215 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU). For further information and clarifications regarding the term “eligibility”, please refer to the OMC document. DISCLAIMERS: The PCP WISE Pre-commercial Procurement is exempted from the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), the EU public procurement directives and the national laws that implement them. This is because it concerns the procurement of R&D services where the benefits do not accrue exclusively to the contracting authority for its use in the conduct of its own affairs. Publication of this Prior Information Notice in the EU Official Journal is not to be understood as a waiver of this exemption. Publication is made on a voluntary basis, and the procurement will not follow the procedures under the EU public procurement directives, but rather the procedure described in the tender documentation. The PIN is not a commitment to procure. The contracting authorities involved are not legally bound in any way by the outcome of the market consultation. No advantage or disadvantage will be given to any supplier /group of suppliers to the detriment of others during the market consultation and the sub-sequent competitive procedure for the award of contracts. Not participating in the OMC will not exclude you from participating in the PCP Call for Tenders. The Call for Tenders is expected to be launched in September 2025. The duration of the Contract/Framework Agreement will be approximately two (2) years for the duration of all three (3) phases of the PCP. The contractors of the future PCP will retain ownership of the intellectual property rights (IPRs) that they generate during the PCP to exploit their full market potential. For equal treatment to all interested suppliers, face-to-face meetings will only be used to provide basic information on the challenge and process, and to listen to the prospective suppliers openly and transparently. To ensure a transparent and open OMC process, no bilateral talks between the PCP WISE Consortium (including its individual members) and prospective suppliers involving the disclosure of confidential information are allowed. The official communication language is English. All information provided during the OMC and other background information will be published online in English on the project website (https://pcp-wise.eu/open-market-consultation/) and/or the e-Procurement Platform ( https://pcp-wise.tuttogare.it/ ). 12000000 73000000 34712200 38221000 71000000 38290000 71351612 72000000 79430000 The potential future PCP is expected to be a joint-cross border procurement with a lead procurer and a group of several public buyers from different EU Member States. Testing will take place in different test sites across EU Member States. At least 50% of the contracted R&D services must be performed in EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries. Additional information on the test sites is provided in ANNEX II of the OMC Document. NL350 NLD Test site Group 1 Helsinki and surroundings FI1B1 FIN Test site Group 2 Bratislava SK010 SVK Test site Group 3 BE211 BEL Test site Group 3 NL411 NLD Test site Group 4 ES511 ESP Test site Group 5 DK041 DNK Test site Group 5 NL350 NLD PAR-0001 ORG-0001 false N/A N/A services 73000000 NL350 NLD