FAQs

Creating the account is easy and fast. It will be necessary that you fill in your personal details with a valid email address from the main menu of the homepage of the Portal. Alternatively, you can register before accessing the space created within the challenges and ideas menu.

With your user you will have access to:

• You can share your innovative ideas
• You can participate in the challenges that are launched from the APBA
• You can participate in the events and workshops organized by the APBA Innovation Office
• You can suggest innovative improvements or opportunities
• You will receive by email the latest innovation trends and news

All those who receive an invitation from the APBA will be able to participate. Depending on the theme of the challenge, it will be aimed at a profile of an entrepreneur, start-up, consulting firm, universities, innovation or technological centers, etc.

To submit the ideas, you must fill in the form that you will find after registering and identify yourself in the Innovation Portal and have accessed the Challenges Portal. In this form, the proponent’s personal data and the description of the scope and impact of the proposed idea are indicated. There will also be an opportunity to upload attachments, in order to complement the description and improve the understanding of the proposed solution or idea.

Para presentar las ideas hay que rellenar el formulario que encontrará tras registrarse e identificarse en el Portal de Innovación y haya accedido al Portal de Retos. En dicho formulario se indican los datos personales del proponente y la descripción del alcance e impacto de la idea propuesta. También se dará la oportunidad de subir archivos adjuntos, con el fin de complementar la descripción y mejorar el entendimiento de la solución o idea propuesta.

You can submit all the ideas you want as long as they are related to the business activity of the Algeciras Port.

All the ideas received will be analysed by the members of the innovation Technical Office and the innovation Committee through the process of the idea management with a stage-gate approach, evaluating their strategic alignment, feasibility, probability of advantage, competitive, among other aspects.

Any employee of the APBA may participate.

To submit the ideas, you must fill in the form that you will find after registering and identify yourself in the Innovation Portal and have accessed the Ideas Portal. In this form, the proponent’s personal data and the description of the scope and impact of the proposed idea are indicated.

You can present all the ideas you want as long as they are related to the activity of the APBA

To submit the ideas, you must fill in the form that you will find after registering and identify yourself in the Innovation Portal and have accessed the Ideas Portal. In this form, the proponent’s personal data and the description of the scope and impact of the proposed idea are indicated.

Any employee, user and / or customer of Algeciras and Tarifa Port may participate.

You can submit all the proposals / suggestions you want as long as they are related to the activity of the APBA.

To present the suggestions, you must fill in the form that you will find after registering and identify yourself in the innovation Portal and have accessed the “Un Mar de opportunities” space. In this form, the personal data of the proposer the description of the scope of the proposal or suggestion are indicated.

The Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI) is an administrative action to promote innovation, aimed at promoting the development of new markets, innovative products or services from the demand side, through the instrument of public procurement.

1. The administration demands innovative products services (not existing in the market)
2. Companies co-develop innovative solutions with the Administration
3. The client / end user has better public service at his disposal.

The main benefits to the actors are indicated as follows:

Administration

• Satisfy long-term needs
• Development of leading markets at the regional level
• Early demand and connection with suppliers
• Optimization of processes and obtaining savings
• Modernize the provision of the services
• Improvement in the image of the Administration

Companies

• More beneficial than a R&D+I contract
• Has a reference client
• Demonstration scenarios in real environment
• Share risks and benefits with the buyer
• Greater links with academia and technology centres

Client / final user

• Improvement of service quality
• Generation of qualified employment
• R&D+I of new business areas
• Generation of new business areas

The first thing that must be clarified is that through the PPI a solution-based process is not allowed to make the purchase. That is, it starts from a need of the Administration and is launched to the market as a challenge to be solved through the I + D.

The technical dialogue is an activity preparatory to a contract that can be used on a discretionary basis by the contracting authority, when it deems it appropriate, either for the innovative nature of the solutions sought, the specificity of their needs or other justified circumstances, provided that such advice does not have the effect of impeding competition. On the other hand, during the competitive dialogue, regulated in the TRLCSP (Consolidated Text of the Public Sector Contracts Law) in which the participants, rather than raising ideas and possible functional or performance specifications of a certain provision to be taken into account how much by the contracting authority, its solutions are already presented, which are complete projects of contractual provision. The call for proposals via PPI promoted by the APBA is part of the technical dialogue, in the definition phase of hiring.

The open calling for innovative ideas as solutions to the needs that the APBA launches via PPI:

• It is NOT an ideas contest
• It is NOT a call for aid for R&D&I projects
• It is NOT an open recruitment procedure

Podrá participar cualquier persona física, jurídica o conjunta de varias personas físicas o jurídicas con la capacidad técnica de resolver las necesidades que se describan en la memoria correspondiente. No obstante, ello vendrá definido en la memoria descriptiva o bien en el pliego de condiciones que atañe en cada licitación.

The APBA will use the proposals internally and will publicize the final solutions defined by the APBA itself, for which it will have used or not any of the proposals sent in the framework of the open call of the PPI.

No. We do not acquire any right over the future development of the proposed idea. The procedure of the call itself guarantees the «equal treatment» of the participants in the future hiring and does not guarantee any preferential right to the proponents of the ideas. Participation in the call, dialogue or contacts with participants or exchanges of information may not lead to infringements of the community principles of non-discrimination and transparency or have the effect of restricting or limiting competition, or granting unfair advantages or rights exclusives not possible in the contracting procedures. At all times the confidentiality of the proposals presented in the framework of the open call of the PPI in the APBA is guaranteed.

The proposals must be free of commercial patents, copyright or any other copyright or business that prevents its free use by the APBA or any other company collaborating in the development of future projects. However, proposals that refer to non-commercialized patents may be submitted, indicating the proponent.

In the bidding document, at the time of bidding, the conditions of the exploitation model of the proposed idea will be defined.

For each call an email will be provided to make the operative consultations that are considered appropriate about this procedure.

On the official Ministry of Economy and Competitivenesse, you can find information on the Innovative Public Procurement, as well as the “Guide 2.0 for Public Procurement of Innovation.”