WE WANT TO HEAR YOU: SURVEY FOR SMEs OF THE RAILWAY SECTOR WISHING TO GO INTERNATIONAL WITH PUBLIC PROCUREMENTS

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It is open the Survey DITECFER – as Coordinator of the EU project “S-ACCESS – Smes ACCESS to international public procurements”, has prepared to understand the level of readiness and potential of SMEs working in the railway field in participating to international public procurements, and the difficulties they face. The goal is to have both the picture of the overall SMEs in Europe and of the individual SME, in order to develop specific supporting tools suitable to help the company participate to public procurements in USA, Canada and Norway.

The Survey has three different paths, according to the specific case of each SME, and only needs max 7 minutes for the companies already having experience in international tendering.

Answering the Survey will enable you to then participate in the activities the project will deliver (training, consultancy, meet-the-buyers, missions, assistance to bidding).

S-ACCESS project:
The project “S-ACCESS – Smes ACCESS to international public procurements”  is a European pilot-project co-funded under the COSME programme of the European Union. The project aims to develop innovative approaches for helping SMEs of the Rail supply industry go international participating in international public procurements.
DITECFER Coordinator is the Coordinator of the project. The project partners are DITECFER (Italy) and the railway clusters i-Trans (France), Rail.S (Germany), MAFEX (Spain), Järnvägsklustret (Sweden), RCSEE (Serbia) and Rail Alliance (United Kingdom).
The project answers the European political mission to help SMEs participate in public procurements in countries outside-EU, exploiting the opportunities disclosed by the free trade agreements and other trade agreements signed by the EU.
The project target-countries are USA, Canada and Norway.
On the one side, the project aims to give concrete answer to the typical obstacles block SMEs from exploiting the tenders potential, by developing specific innovative tools. On the other side, the project will develop an internationalisation strategy and an implementation roadmap to help SMEs benefit from the opportunities provided by the CETA agreement (EU-Canada), by the new CUSMA agreement (Canada-USA-Mexico) and by the Economic Agreement EU-Norway, thanks to which the latter implements the EU rules on public procurements, as well as its technical specifications.
The project will last 36 months and is divided in two phases:

• a Preparatory Phase lasting 15 months, where the partners will develop solutions for each type of obstacle;
• an Implementation Phase lasting 21 months, where the partners will test their strategy and assist the SMEs on the field.