Request for proposal:

Request for proposal: Mobility Innovation Marketplace – IT Services

EIT Urban Mobility is seeking to contract support to work closely with the department responsible for the Mobility Innovation Marketplace (“Marketplace”).The Marketplace is the digital platform is a multi-sided online platform showcasing innovative urban mobility solutions that have a high potential for environmental, social, and economic impact. The objective is supporting mobility innovators in raising traffic for their solutions, generating commercial leads to scale and deploy their products or services in new cities and offering extended services to all platform users find the right solutions and/or opportunities to scale.

The Marketplace fulfils the following tasks:

• Finding commercial mobility solutions and opportunities for development, deployment, or investment.
• Connecting solution providers with solution seekers.
• Finding new sources of funding
• Facilitating deployment of new solutions in real life contexts (including pilots and longer-term implementations).
• Enabling market scaling of solutions that have demonstrated positive impact (i.e., best practices).
• Positioning its portfolio solutions as market benchmarks.

Diverse content is provided to address both suppliers (solution provider) as well as demand side (solution seeker) contacts. There are currently 5 content types:

• Mobility Products, featuring the most innovative solutions providing sustainable mobility in cities.
• Best Practices, presenting the latest success stories of pilots and implementations of urban mobility solutions.
• Market opportunities, piloting, and implementation opportunities available for mobility innovators to bring their solutions to the market.
• Insights, a neutral mobility knowledge focussed section providing the latest articles and news on the sector, from regulatory changes to the arrival of new cutting-edge technology.
• Physical Internet Observatory, a platform providing expert insights on market trends, regulatory dynamics, and innovative solutions poised to shape the future of urban logistics.

The ambition for the Marketplace is to become the reference platform in the sector for finding innovation in mobility. The platform has been launched in Nov 2021 and seen rapid growth since then.

We are looking for a digital business service provider (IT development and maintenance) who can support us during 2025 (potential extension of contract for additional 12 months). The support shall be focused on the further development and maintenance of the existing platform.

1. Check the Request for Proposals here.
2. To apply, please send the completed and signed Tender’s Submission and Declaration Form

Deadline for submissions: 7 January 2025 at 16.00h (CET)