PreCommercial Procurement of Research & Development services on the security domain (SHIELD PCP)

The call to tender concerns the PreCommercial Procurement of Research and Development services in the security sector, known as SHIELD PCP. It is a cross‑border initiative collocated by the French, Spanish, Slovak and French railway ministries, designed to foster innovative solutions that enhance the protection of public spaces and crowd management for law‑enforcement agencies. The programme seeks research services that will produce market‑ready products or capabilities with a Technology Readiness Level of 7–8.

Responders will be expected to design, prototype, integrate and validate solutions through a three‑phase framework agreement. The first phase will focus on detailed solution design based on agreed scenarios, the second on prototype development and system integration, and the third on operational validation in real‑world environments. Delivery is anchored in the European Union, with at least 70 % of all research, development, testing, certification, and operational activities carried out by principal staff and subcontractors located in EU Member States or Horizon Europe‑associated countries.

All proposals must produce fully tested, innovative products or services that meet the shared needs of the public buyers, enable seamless coordination across stakeholders, and incorporate the stated 70 % place‑of‑performance requirement.

This contract notice announces the call for tenders for PreCommercial Procurement of Research & Development services on the security domain (Security Harmonized Innovation for Enhanced Law enforcement capabilities in Dynamic crowd protection through PreCommercial Procurement). SHIELD PCP is a cross broder joint procurement of Research & Development services to reinforce the field of protection of publics spaces and crowd management. The tobedeveloped solutions are expected to achieve TRL 78. The PCP should deliver successful, innovative and fully tested product(s) and/or service(s), that meet the common needs of the Public Buyer Group (PBG) to procure research services, develop innovative marketable solutions, speed up the timetomarket and provide best value for money. More concretely, the common needs of the public buyers group are as follows. The SHIELD PCP initiative aims to drive innovation by empowering buyers to actively influence the development of costeffective solutions tailored to their unique requirements. The overarching aim is to equip security stakeholders with cuttingedge technology procured through innovative processes, offering solutions that enable seamless coordination and cooperation among all stakeholders, especially law enforcement agencies (LEAs). The SHIELD PCP project adopts a topdown approach. This method consolidates widely agreedupon scenarios to address critical security challenges, providing a detailed identification of innovation needs at both the process and technology levels. This topdown approach enabled the alignment of stakeholders, from security forces to public authorities, ensuring innovative solutions meet shared needs for public space protection. After evaluation of the tenders received, the PCP will be implemented by means of awarding a Framework Agreement where contractors are developing the solution in competition. It includes calloffs for Specific Contracts for Phase 1: Solution Design, Phase 2: Prototype Development and Integration, and Phase 3: Validation in real operational environment. SHIELD PCP has received funding from the Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON) under grant agreement n°101225962. However, the European Union will not participate as a contracting authority in the procurement.
Place of performance: At least 70% of the total value of activities covered by the framework agreement (i.e. the total value of the activities covered by all phases) must be performed in the European Union (EU) Member States (MS) or Horizon Europe (HE) associated countries. This means that at least 70% of the total value of activities covered by each specific contract for PCP phase 1 and 2 must be performed in the EU Member States or in HE associated countries. Both percentages for phase 1 and phase 2 must be set at the minimum percentage (i.e. 70%) to ensure that tenders that do not proceed to phase 2 (or phase 3) still satisfy the place of performance requirement. The principal R&D staff working on the PCP (on each specific contract) must be located in the EU Member States or Horizon Europe associated countries. All activities covered by the contract are included in the calculation (i.e. all R&D and operational activities that are needed to perform the R&D services, e.g. research, development, testing and certifying solutions). This includes all activities performed under the contract by contractors and, if applicable, their subcontractors. The contractors must in addition ensure that the implementation of the contract takes place in EU Member States or HE associated countries

Lot: LOT-0001
Title: Call for tender of SHIELD PreCommercial Procurement of Research and Development services on the security domain

Procurement documents
Address of the procurement documents: https://civipolpcp.tuttogare.it/index.php