Areas we want to improve

The digital garage is looking for groundbreaking technologies to help us address four main focus areas for Procurement within bp. If you have a solution which can address one or more of our focus areas, we’d love to hear from you on how your innovations can help shape and contribute towards our progress.

Reduce complexity

Make procurement an easier place to work. Whether that's within, or with procurement, as a supplier or stakeholder.

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Sustainability

Innovative digital solutions, enabling us to deliver against our aims in sustainable purchasing (aim 20) and our sustainability aims.

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Data and analytics

Provide bp with deep supply chain insights while increasing transparency of the supply chain.

Category innovation

Accelerating innovation, allowing bp to increase effectiveness, efficiency and speed within its supply chain.

The procurement technology scouting process

Stages

Submit your solution

Complete the information sharing process, providing as much information about your company and solutions(s) as you can! You will receive an email to a link where you will be able to see the submission and can make updates if requested. Only bp and you will see your submission.

Submit your solution
Review

We will carefully review all submissions. The review process is about understanding your offer, so we may reach out to you with questions during this time. Depending on business priorities and the strength of your offer, your submission may move directly from review into Active Engagement.

What's next

If your submission is chosen to move to the Active Engagement stage, we will invite you to discussion / demo sessions that will be held virtually with the Digital Garage. If your solution is aligned with our approach and proven to be able to solve the challenge(s), we will look to discuss how we could shape a POC / Pilot.

FAQ'S

Frequently asked questions about the campaign

There are no restrictions on type, size, or location of participating companies that want to work with the Procurement Digital Garage. The primary objective of this campaign is to align ourselves with like-minded companies who can support our procurement focus areas.

We are looking for market-ready solutions as well as proposals at PoC (Proof of Concept), Prototype and MVP (Minimum Viable Product) levels of maturity. Research projects to further understand the potential will also be considered, as will co-development opportunities.

You will receive an email to confirm we have received your application with further information on the process. We may also, prior to moving to active engagement, contact you by email for any further information.

At various points through the year, the bp digital garage will release campaigns. These are designed to allow registered suppliers to respond to specific problems and challenges the garage is looking to solve.

You do not have to pay to make a submission on the platform.

If you are successful with your application, bp will look to engage in a commercial opportunity with the digital garage.