Innovative Procurement Program for Canadian Businesses
BCIP is a successful innovation procurement program in Canada, enabling Canadian businesses to sell their innovative products and services to government departments for testing and feedback. Since its establishment in 2010, BCIP has facilitated the procurement of numerous groundbreaking innovations, benefiting both businesses and government partners. Find out how to participate and take your innovations to the next level with BCIP.
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Sell Your Innovation Build in Canada Innovation Program CIO Strategy Council December 5, 2017 Office of Small and Medium Enterprises (OSME) Public Services and Procurement Canada 1
Program Profile WHAT HOW BCIP is an innovation procurement program established in 2010. Through a competitive procurement process, the government buys innovative pre- commercial goods and services, and government departments and their partners, test and provide feedback 2017-2018 program funding is $40 million RESULT A win-win for both Canadian businesses and testing partners Businesses are better able to take the next step and sell their innovation on the marketplace Government users/partners test, assess and provide feedback on innovations that are not yet available in the market 2
BCIP by the Numbers Since program launch in 2010 449 pre-qualified innovations from 392 unique companies $122 million 281 contracts awarded valued at 97% awarded to small and medium-sized businesses 30 federal government organizations have tested innovations 3
Why Participate in the BCIP? Canadian businesses Government departments Address departmental challenges with new technology Receive valuable feedback Collaboration Test, use and assess the latest Canadian innovations Make a first reference sale and network Access Benefit from a specialized procurement method Learn how to sell to the Government of Canada. Learning The Result: Win-Win 4
How the Program Works Through a competitive procurement process, the government buys innovative pre-commercial goods and services. 1. Submit proposal 2. National Research Council Innovation Research Assistance Program evaluates 3. Innovation prequalifies 4. Innovation matched with federal testing department 5. Contract established 6. Testing occurs 7. Feedback provided to innovator 8. Possibility for additional sales/testing 5
Program Eligibility To apply to BCIP, you must: Not have sold your innovation commercially Show IP ownership/rights, strategy Be a Canadian business Demonstrate an innovation is an advance on the state of the art Include 80% Canadian content Apply to one of the 4 Standard or 6 Military Priority Areas Meet a Technology Readiness Level of 7 to 9 6
A New Element: Challenge Call for Proposals In July 2017, BCIP launched a Challenge Call for Proposals pilot Defence and public security theme Complements current supply-push approach Focused on testing of late-stage technologies Federal departments partner with the BCIP to create challenges, evaluate proposals, and test/validate qualified innovative solutions. BCIP will allocate up to $1M and can award multiple contracts within a challenge. 7
Partnerships/Third Party Testing BCIP needs a federal department to sponsor and test an innovation Testing scope can be expanded from this base approach: Multiple federal departments can test an innovation in partnership One contract, one statement of work with variety within Federal departments can partner with non-federal organizations e.g. provinces/municipalities/private sector/research/academic orgs Federal department sponsors, third-party facilitates/hosts Opportunities with unmatched innovations or a Demand Challenge 8
Available for testing Innovation: Bitnobi Innovator: Bitnobi Inc. This innovation shares privacy-protected data directly from the data provider s infrastructure. This means that data can be shared without having to transfer or copy any raw data to the end user. 9
Available for testing Innovation: AgileSec VPN Innovator: Infosec Global Inc. Virtual Private Network (VPN) solution that allows users to protect their networks using both custom and standardized cryptography SINET's 2017 Innovators Award for Cybersecurity 10
Matched and In Progress Innovation: SNOW (Self-Managed) Innovator: Arcadia Laboratories Inc. Testing partner: DND Threat detection platform that effectively defends IT infrastructure endpoints against advanced, targeted cyber-attacks. Innovation: Influent Innovator: Uncharted Software Testing partner: RCMP Financial Forensic (Link Analysis) Software for Anti Money Laundering & Counter Terrorist Finance Investigations Innovation: Catena Blockchain Suite Innovator: Bitaccess Inc. Testing partner: National Research Council Canada An enterprise software suite and integration to allow firms and organizations to publish records which can be independently audited on Distributed Ledgers (Blockchains). 11
