Orientation paper to address procurement challenges (first version)

D3.1 is to be delivered at M18 and is linked to Task 3.1 – Finetuning and aggregating procurement needs and selecting procurement challenges, Task 3.2: State-Of-The-Art (SOTA) analysis to great extent, and to Task 3.3: Open market consultations with state-of-the-art CS providers to a lesser extent. Indeed, the outputs of Tasks 3.1 and 3.2 will be reflected at midterm of the project (M18) into the first version of orientation paper to address procurement challenges. This deliverable (D3.1) will provide a summary of the analysis conducted which allowed to prioritise the recommendations for those procurement challenges displaying a higher climate and procurement impact and that already indicate potential for a PCP as the right approach to address these challenges (T3.1). It will also provide a detailed overview of the methodology and tools implemented to conduct the SOTA analysis and the results of the SOTA analysis (T3.2). In addition, this deliverable will also inform about the specific objectives of Task 3.3 and the methodology and tools to organize and conduct the four e-pitching sessions and the four open marketing consultations later on.