The aim of the QUACO project is to procure jointly novel superconducting magnets. By pooling efforts of several research infrastructures with similar technical requirements and using their experience from prior procurements, the partners in QUACO will act as a single Buyer Group. The pre-commercial procurement (PCP) instrument used in this project will thus take away the mismatch between the high-end R&D expectations and the existing solutions on the market and allow large and small specialised companies to increase the speed of their own research and technology development.