Technological challenge
The Canary Islands Institute of Technology and the Sociedad de Promoción Económica de Gran Canaria, with the financial support of the Cabildo Insular de Gran Canaria (Gran Canaria Island Council), launch a Pre-Commercial public Procurement (PCP) of disruptive technology in the seawater desalination sector. This initiative, within the framework of DESAL + LIVING LAB Platform, aims to attract and provide knowledge applicable to desalination processes with remarkable international outreach. Two technological challenges have been identified: Valorization of desalination brine and Emerging technologies on seawater desalination. The PCP is the starting point to acquire R&D&I services to develop solutions from a TRL2 to a TRL6 level (or higher) within 2 years.
Pre-commercial public Procurement (PCP) soon
Pre-commercial public Procurement (PCP)
PHASE 0 -PRELIMINARY MARKET CONSULTATION (PMC)
to know the degree of technological advances in SEAWATER DESALINATION PROCESSES.
This consultation tries to identify non-commercial solutions in TRL2 that require support to move forward, through a pre-commercial public procurement on their way to becoming commercial solutions with high market projection in desalination (TRL6 or higher).
This PMC focus on innovative solutions with emerging non-commercial technologies that, through individual or hybrid solutions, allow achieving a series of competitive advantages: reducing the discharge of brine, chemical-free desalination and/or the considerable reduction of specific energy consumption; and, after agreeing to a pre-commercial public procurement, it advances in its R&D project in several phases to become a product with high potential for the market.
TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES
CHALLENGE 1.- BRINE
Description: Exploitation of brine from desalination plants within the framework of the circular economy strategy: solutions and processes that allow the recovery of brine in transit to the minimum possible discharge.
Technical specifications: solutions, processes or technology that enhance the varolization of the brine discharged from seawater desalination plants and, at the same time, reduce its volumen.
These initiatives must be technologically viable, robust, applicable on a large scale, that generate added value, capable of generating benefits and that once is respectful with the environment.
The project must have as its goal the partial recovery of brine, value-added resources or generated from brine.
CHALLENGE 2.- EMERGING DESALINATION
Description: new desalination technologies, whether alternative or supplementary to reverse osmosis (SL9), including new non-commercial sub-processes or changes of the current technology that improve the energy efficiency of the desalination process.
Technical specifications: Solutions, processes or technologies are required to help to reduce the carbon footprint and volume of brine discharges from desalination plants, while reducing the consumption of chemical products in the process, most of which are discharged along with the flow. of brine. These initiatives must be technologically viable, robust, applicable on a large scale, and environmentally sustainable.
The project must be perceived as an efficient and competitive alternative or complement to reverse osmosis. So that this technology, with the necessary support, achieves different goals: minimizing the discharge of brine, chemical-free desalination, increasing energy efficiency or reducing specific energy consumption.
Can I submit several proposals to either of the two challenges of the PMC?
Yes. Several proposals can be submitted by the same physical or legal person, either individually or jointly with others.
To do so, you must submit a registration form for each proposal. The form (available at the link https://www.desalinationlab.com/desal-startatups/formulario-de-participacion-cppdesal/), will be presented together with the technical report, according to the indications of the model.
Is it possible to make an appointment with the technical team to obtain specific information about my application to this PMC?
ITC will offer information sessions in which interested parties can show their ideas and solve specific doubts. The requirements and specifications for the participants have been described in detail in the PMC bases. However, you can pose specific questions by sending an email to desal+@desalinationlab.com, indicating in the subject “DOUBT PMC DESAL+" followed by a short text that helps to identify the question.
Is there any delimitation, minimum or máximum, regarding the budget necessary to carry out the solution to the challenge?
Yes, the budget to execute all the phases of the proposed solution -concept, design, manufacture of the demonstration model- will be delimited by a minimum of € 100,000 and a maximum of € 200,000. Participating entities must take into account this figure which applies to a maximum of 3 stages of R&D development
Can a foreign entity participate as a potential future tenderer? Can proposals be submitted in English?
Yes, registration is open to researchers, entities and companies (SMEs), startups and entrepreneurs from any country.
Yes, proposals written in English and Spanish will be accepted. Applications received in a different language, other than these two, will be rejected.
What does it mean that Pre-commercial Public Procurement (PCP) is outside the Public Sector Contract Law?
The PCP that will be carried out is an R&D services contract excluded from Law 9/2017 of November 8, on Public Sector Contracts in Spain, by which the Directives of the European Parliament and of the Council 2014/23/EU and 2014/24/EU, of February 26, 2014, are transposed into the Spanish legal system, as regulated in the already mentioned article 8.
Research and development contracts are excluded from this law. In any case, the PCP must be sustained under its basic principles: equality, non-discrimination, publicity, transparency and competitive competition.
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