Helping European Public Administrations to take the leap towards e-procurement

Global Forum 2011

07/11/2011

Mr. Angelo TOSETTIHead of Unit Information systems for Policy support, Grant Management and e-Procurement,

DG for Informatics, European Commission, Belgium

the e-Procurement solution

• Operational e-Procurement solution that can be used by buyers to connect to its suppliers through web-service interfaces

• e-PRIOR enables the communication between the Public Administration and Suppliers of any size

SUPPLIER WEB PORTAL

CUSTOMER WEB PORTAL

SOA platform

Supplier systems

Back Office

Public Administration systems

Back Office

Through web applications for SMEs and individuals

Through a machine-to-machine communication

for bigger companies

the e-Procurement solution

Project timeline

Q4 2009 … Q3 2010 Q4 2010 Q3 2011

e-INVOICING

e-REQUEST(for services)

e-ORDERINGe-CATALOGUE e-FULFILMENT

(delivery note & goods receipt)

e-SOURCING(requests & quotations for goods)

e-INVOICING « Self Service »

(via Supplier Portal)

… 2011…

Other Agencies and DGs of the EC are adopting e-PRIOR

4 service providers currently interfacing with e-PRIOR

~ 30 suppliers connected to e-PRIOR by the end of 2011

and more …

DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

CDT

DG Translation

DG Education And Culture

DG Enterprise and Industry

and others …

Users

as e-Procurement infrastructure

Supplier Portal to connect SME and individuals

as Advanced PEPPOL Access Point

+ Support for Public Administrations in implementing Open e-PRIOR

+ Future evolution of the product

Helping European Public Administrations

CIO Group Coordination Group

How we are reaching out to Member States?

DG INFSO Beneficiaries

DG MARKT DG REGIO Other Policy DGs

Service providers System integrators

Conferences

Workshops

Meetings

Web (e.g. Social Media, Europa, …) Market players

STAKEHOLDERSCH

ANN

ELS

Open-source development collaboration

Universities

EU Programmes

European Commission

Interoperability with PEPPOL

Deployed in Greece & Portugal More than 1000 downloads on OSOR.eu Other Member States interested to

implement Open e-PRIOR :

• Norway

• Croatia

• Italy

• ...

Achievements

http://www.osor.eu/projects/openeprior

Why is e-Procurement important?

Increased efficiency 79 %

Study on the Invoicing Directive (2001/115/EC) in 2009

74 %Cost reduction

Faster payment 42 %

29 %Less disputes

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