With a shift from proprietary to non-proprietary systems of peer review, initial experience has now been garnered from SCOAP [4] and the Springer experiments [5] at UKB, MPG, Göttingen University and, lately, California University [6]). This conversion can be speeded up if disciplinary communities, universities, and research funders actively enter the market of the peer review organisers by calling for tenders and inviting publishers to submit proposals for a non-proprietary design of the peer review process. Given the current situation – with the American legislature and the European Commission having clearly taken a stand in favour of Open Access – one can expect that such tenders will certainly produce interesting proposals. The time is ripe!