The European Big Science represents a huge market of several hundred million euros per year, with significant potential impact and benefits for national industries.
Engaging in the Big Science market can provide significant opportunities for companies. These include the creation of innovative products and the development of the customer portfolio by offering such products to other Big Science Organizations (BSOs) or to the wider market. However, access to this market appears to be highly fragmented and uneven across BSOs. Differences may exist in the format and/or language of the offer, the payment procedures and insurance, the tender procedures and codes/product categories, the product/material specifications, the site conditions and installation rules, etc. This places a burden on companies who have to adapt their access to each BSO.

This call aims to collect the experiences of some prominent industrial actors who have been awarded contracts by different BSOs and then formulate a roadmap and suggestions for standardizing access procedures.

This action will benefit both the BSOs and the companies:

• the BSOs will have a better understanding of the challenges faced by companies applying for their CFTs and will be able to adopt some common and more effective practices to facilitate access by companies, thus benefiting from a larger portfolio of companies and a more dynamic participation in their CFTs.
• Companies benefiting from more standardized access procedures will increase their capacity to participate in CFTs from different BSOs, thus creating a real and effective common market.

BSBF Trieste 2024 then launched this Call for nominations (BSCM Call) to select industries that could present their experiences in the Big Science Market and formulate suggestions in a dedicated session, ensuring that one speaker for each selected company will receive a free pass to the BSBF2024.