The object of the non-competitive project is to increase the involvement of public institutions in the transformation of the Polish economy in accordance with the assumptions of the European Green Deal by using the towed innovation model and the pre-commercial procurement (PPP) formula. Pre-Commercial Procurements, PCP). The project will allow: - meeting the needs of the public sector, - supporting the implementation of R&D works of significant socio-economic importance and the development of the innovation system in Poland, and thus increasing its competitiveness, - implementing innovative solutions on a large scale / creating new markets for innovative solutions, in particular in the field of the European Green Deal and digitalisation, - transforming public services in accordance with the objectives of the European Green Deal and digitalisation by absorbing and disseminating innovation, - promoting and increasing knowledge about innovative public procurement among public procurers. The project will not concern activities excluded from FENG support, i.e. activities listed in Article 7 of Regulation (EU) 2021/1058 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 June 2021 on the European Regional Development Fund and on the Cohesion Fund. By towed innovation we mean the process by which an organization (e.g. a public institution) recognizes a specific, unmet need (e.g. a market, social, environmental) and then develops an innovative solution [source: Push and Pull Innovation, https://www.thinkhorizonconsulting.com/post/push-and-pull-innovation; online access: 2024-03-04] For this project, the towed innovation model will be implemented in such a way that, in response to the need to: - notified by the public sector and formally confirmed by a specific institution in the form of a cooperation agreement; or - identified by the NCBR and formally confirmed by a specific public institution in the form of a cooperation agreement, the NCBR will conduct a procedure in the form of pre-commercial procurement (PPP). Pre-commercial Procurement, PCP), the subject of which will be the development of solutions responding to the above-mentioned need. Pre-commercial Procurement (PCP), planned to be implemented as part of the project, is a procedure established by Commission Communication COM/2007/0799, in which the contracting authority - a public authority orders the development of an innovative product or technology that is not available on the market through research and development. PCP ends with the development of a full-scale product and demonstration of its operation. As defined in Commission Communication 2022/C 414/01 Framework for State aid for research and development and innovation: ‘pre-commercial procurement’ means the award of a public service contract for research and development in which the contracting authority or contracting entity does not take over all the results and benefits of an exclusive contract for use in the conduct of its own business, but shares them with service providers on market terms. A procurement whose subject-matter falls within one or more of the R&D categories set out in this Framework must be limited in time and may include the development of prototypes or a limited number of new products or services in the form of a test series. The purchase of products or services for commercial distribution may not be the subject of the same contract. The full description can be found in Annex 1.