Innovation partnership
An innovation partnership is a public procurement process that enables the development of innovative IT solutions in several stages.
Following the submission of applications, a jury consisting of members of the ministry, the CTIE and external experts selected according to the theme of the challenge analyses and evaluates the applications. This jury selects a maximum of five candidates who advance to the ‘Proof of Concept’ phase of the innovation partnership.
During this first phase, the five selected candidates put the proposed concept note in their application into practice.
This first part of the process lasts three to four months and ends with a Demo Day, during which the jury evaluates the prototypes developed by the candidates according to a series of predefined criteria. The candidate with the solution that best meets the criteria moves on to the design phase.
This second stage, which lasts 3-4 months, is used to develop the functionalities and architecture of the future solution. This stage includes a series of workshops with the selected candidate, the CTIE teams, the GovTech Lab team and the requesting administration/ministry.
At the end of this second phase, the candidate is invited to submit an offer for implementation, taking into account all the requirements and constraints defined during the design phase. If the solution is accepted by the CTIE, a project is launched within the CTIE for implementation.
Depending on the complexity of the solution sought, the GovTech Lab innovation partnership process takes an average of 6 to 8 months.
