Where are you right now?
The two situations people reach us in. Both start the same way: the software described in writing, and a figure behind the budget line that holds up.
You are still drafting the budget in ИСУН
You need a figure that will survive evaluation and a technical description that justifies it. We write both before you submit, free, without obligation, and product-neutral so it does not steer a later selection. If the application is not approved, you owe us nothing.
Send us the budget line and a few lines on what the software has to doYour project is already approved
The end date is fixed in the grant contract, and your selection procedure comes before the build. We plan backwards from that date and quote a fixed price and a fixed delivery date for a scope written into the specification.
Send us the specification, or the contract end date and the scope in outline
Overview
We build custom software paid from a project budget line: a technical description and a cost estimate before you submit, then a fixed price and a project-end deadline if we are chosen. We are the software vendor, not the grant consultant.
Funding Programmes
The programmes that most often fund custom software development in Bulgaria.
What's Included
Every engagement covers the work that matters most for a reliable launch and long-term operation.
Key Benefits
Why work with HighAppler
We work as a standing team and put together the line-up each project's technologies call for. HighAppler is a Bulgarian company with its seat in Shumen, and the people who scope your software are the ones who build it, so the figure behind a budget line comes from the engineers who have to meet it. We pick the stack that fits the project, not the other way around: Java and Spring Boot, Angular and React, Node.js, PostgreSQL and Docker. Well-scoped work carries a fixed price, testing is in house by our own QA specialists, NDAs are signed by default, the team is in the EU, and we can host there. We hand over documentation and code written for whoever maintains the system after us, because it has to stay in use at your own cost through the sustainability period.
Technologies We Use
In an EU-funded project software is a budget line before a system: a cost to justify, a scope to procure, a delivery on time, evidence in the file. Under ЗУСЕФСУ a beneficiary that is not a contracting authority awards the work by public invitation (процедура за избор с публична покана) once the estimated cost, own co-financing in and VAT out, reaches the legal threshold and the grant exceeds half the approved project value, and at half or less where the conditions of your procedure provide for it. Below the threshold, how the price is evidenced is set by those same conditions, usually through comparable offers; ours is only one of them. If chosen, we build to the tendered specification and close with an acceptance protocol and invoice. Which rules and which system apply is set by your programme and procedure conditions; your consultant or the managing authority confirms it.
Consultants write the application; we describe the software. On a deadline we confirm with you, we produce an indicative offer with a stated validity period, a technical description of the proposed solution written as functional requirements, and a cost breakdown that maps to the budget line you are drawing up. We stay in the vendor role: we do not advise on eligibility, aid intensity or state aid, and we do not compete with you for the advisory work. We do not draft your client's публична покана or a specification shaped around our own stack, because the ЗУСЕФСУ selection rules require a neutral invitation, with no steer toward a specific product, brand or manufacturer. That offer gives us no right to the contract: the beneficiary picks the contractor under the procedure. Contact runs the way you prefer, directly with your client or only through you.
A budget line is approved before the work starts and the end date is fixed in the grant contract, so a beneficiary cannot absorb a price that grows or a date that slips. We quote a fixed price and a fixed date for a scope written down in the technical specification, planning in reverse from the end date, with room for acceptance, corrections and reporting. Scope is settled before the offer goes in: the technical specification and the draft contract are an integral part of the invitation, and at reporting what was delivered has to match what was tendered and offered. After signature we absorb the detail inside the agreed price, and any change to contracted scope or value goes to the beneficiary and the consultant first, because it lands in the procurement file, not just our schedule.
The obligations outlive the project. EU rules require the investment to stay in place for a set period after final payment, commonly five years and shorter for some SME investments, and it is your procedure's conditions that fix the term; breaking it makes the aid repayable in proportion to the time out of compliance. Hosting, maintenance, updates and user support after the end date sit outside the project budget unless your procedure's conditions provide otherwise, and are priced separately, at your cost. Source code, scripts and documentation are handed over at acceptance, so the system can keep running or pass to another team. For software booked as an intangible fixed asset (ДНА) we supply the screenshots and documentation your procedure calls for, and the product can show the funding acknowledgement its conditions require; publicity stays your obligation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Before you submit we write a technical description and a priced indicative offer, free and without obligation. The description is functional and product-neutral, so as not to steer a later selection; the public invitation is yours to publish. We need the budget line and a call with the users.
If the grant application is not approved, you owe us nothing: the description and the offer stay yours, and we update both if you apply again. If it is approved, the contract is still not ours - you run the procedure under your programme's own rules, and approval was never ours to give.
Yes. A beneficiary that is a contracting authority under the Public Procurement Act (ЗОП), a municipality or another public body, awards the work under ЗОП and not by the ЗУСЕФСУ invitation. Whether you are a contracting authority is decided by ЗОП, not by us. We take part on the same terms and your file gets the same offer, contract, protocol and invoice.
We plan backwards from the end date in the grant contract: first the weeks your selection procedure takes before we can start, then the build, then room for acceptance, corrections and reporting. To fix a date we need the contract dates, the scope in writing, and approvals within a week.
The source code and the intellectual property rights in what we write for you pass to you when the final invoice is paid, with no licence fee to us and no lock-in to us as supplier. Third-party and open-source components keep their own licences, which we list at handover.
Defects, meaning delivered software that does not match the specification, are ours to fix at our cost for the warranty period set in the contract. Changes, new features, hosting and day-to-day operation are separate paid work, which is why we quote support apart from the build.
Yes. On an application you are preparing, we take the software vendor role and the technical part of it: the description of the software and the offer that prices it, to an agreed deadline, in your format. The client relationship stays yours. We do not write applications or advise on eligibility.
You get a formal offer, submitted as the procedure requires, a signed contract with the specification annexed, an acceptance protocol and an invoice on the budget line. For software booked as an intangible asset we add the screenshots your procedure calls for. The managing authority decides eligibility, not us.
Get a Formal Offer Against the Budget Line
Send us the technical specification, or just the budget line and the project end date. We agree the scope: an indicative offer before you apply, a fixed price and a fixed date in the contract.
Request a Written OfferOr call the team directly: +359 897 911 454