Transforming the way cities solve problems. Five steps to problem-solving procurement.

1. Transforming the way cities
solve problems
Dublin
October 2015
#citiesshare

2. $4,5 million in St Paul

3. $4,5 million in Stockholm

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How cities spend 10% of world GDP

5. Barbara Hale,
Assistant general manager,
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
“Instead of saying to the marketplace
„here‟s the solution we want‟ we said
„here‟s the challenge, here‟s the
problem we‟re having‟. That opened
us up to what other people thought
the solution to the problem was, rather
than us in our own little world deciding
we knew the answer.”

6. Five steps to problem-solving
procurement
CONTRACT SHAREDEFINE PROBLEM
OPEN TO
THE MARKET SELECT

7. This is what a 1M EUR tender can look like.

9. Open.

10. Cities trading solutions through Citymart.
Need Solutionline thickness = deployment stage

11. Winner Living Labs Global Award 2012
75 wireless sensors embedded to provide
Sant Cugat with a smart parking pilot that
reduced congestion, lowered pollution and
enabled the council to manage parking
better.
• As the company‟s first real-life
deployment it served as their launch pad.
• In less than a year the pilot had led to a
contract with the Chinese city of Wuxi for
120 sensors - $30,000.
• In 2013 they secured a contract with
Moscow for 12,000 sensors -$3,000,000.

12. Connecthings
Winner of 5 Citymart challenges
Connecthings have won 4 other challenges with
Citymart - Derry-Londonderry, Hamburg,
Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, La Coruna.
Barcelona
• February 2013: during the 2013 Mobile World
Congress Connecthings wirelessly tagged the
trade-fair and major tourist attractions as their
LLGA pilot.
• May 2013: Connecthings wirelessly tag the
FINA World Swimming Championships.
• July 2013: Connecthings becomes official
contactless tag supplier to Barcelona, winning a
EUR 60,000 tender.
• Connecthings relocates its operations in Spain
to Barcelona employing 10 mobile technology
and business development experts.
Rio de Janeiro
Provided NFC services for the World Cup and also
for the upcoming Olympics.
La Coruña
Citywide tagging to access bus and tourist
information.

13. Citymart partners – past and present
Upcoming opportunities
Sheffield, UK
Enhancing city centre vibrancy & Supporting
independent living
100 Resilient Cities – Social cohesion
Da Nang, Vietnam
Bristol, UK
Oakland, USA
New Orleans, USA
New York, USA
Digital inclusion & Social equity
Long Beach, USA
Local economic development
Philadelphia, USA
Flood water management & Vision zero traffic
safety
Dublin, Eire
Mobility, lighting, extreme weather and
environment

14. >> Citymart: Transforming the way cities solve problems
Citymart transforms the way cities solve problems by connecting them with new ideas
through open challenges to entrepreneurs and citizens.
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Procurement
by challenge
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Impact
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