Online Procurement Helpdesk for Smart Communities
The European Commission invites cities and communites across the EU to participate in the Online Procurement Helpdesk for Smart Communities, a support service to advance the digital maturity of EU cities and communites in their early stages of digital transformation.
Opportunities for participating EU communities
By joining this forward-thinking initiative, your city or community will gain access to a comprehensive suite of benefits designed to catalyse digital development:
- Tailored support and consultancy as well as tools to guide your digital strategy development and realisation.
- Online advisory services to help your city assess technological readiness for implementing MIM-compliant local data platforms.
- Assessment of your city's digital and technical maturity for a customised digitalisation roadmap.
- Identification of procurement needs and technical capacity towards MIMplus alignment.
- Vendor neutral and technology agnostic architectural designs based in the MIMplus framework, based on open standards, and secures compliance on the latest EU regulations and secures a seamless integration for cities and technology companies.
- Participation to a European peer network pioneering the advancement of local data platforms and Al-powered digital twins.
- City's visibility, sharing of best practices, successes, and failures to leverage on learnings and peer exchange.