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• Enterprises: Software for companies, is a set of specifications, included in a
simple tool. This tool, PLYCA-ENTERPRISES, allows companies to understand
and establish an electronic relationship with contracting authorities in terms of
what the authorities are calling them for (tender, contract, invoice, order,
certificates), including features like digital signature and electronic archiving.
Mr. Cano also proposed new elements that might have an impact in the next uptake of
eProcurement:
Concerning the importance of adequate training, he proposed to adopt the LivinLabs
approach, to create “protected environment” for making simulation and having people
(both from the Contracting Authorities and suppliers side) trained on the optimal use of
eProcurement solutions
He suggested Cloud Computing as an approach/technology that might have an impact
on the development of next eProcurement solutions.
2.5 Panel Discussion
Attendees of the panel discussion:
• Manuel Cano – (PLYCA, Spain)
• Paul Humann – (auftrag.at, Austria)
• Stefan Krammer – (PEPPOL)
• Josef Makolm (PEPPOL)
Moderation: Wolfgang Renner (Wiener Zeitung, Austria)
4 essential questions/topics have been proposed to the experts:
• What is the status quo of development from your point of view?
• What problems have been noticed in the last periods or will appear in the near
future?
• What is the status quo of public procurement on EU/international level?
(procurement between member states and international market)
• Know-how transfer: community of practice and experts groups
Conclusions could be summarised as follows
• There are 27 different legislations ruling eProcurement and 27 different levels of
progress and adoption. There is no need to identify and adopt one single
solution, but rather to make the existing different ones inter-operable
• The European Commission is expected to support the alignment of national
legislations and in the identification of common requirements
• The language is still a barrier for the usage of eProcurement solutions (especially
for the purchase of services and works) to foreign bidders: there is still a lot of
work to do on this issue and, again, the Commission is invited to support the
identification and development of solutions
• There are key-enablers, like eSignature and eCatalogue, that affect all/most of
the phases both in pre-awarding and post-awarding and therefore their
implementation should be done considering the overall eProcurement cycle
• Concerning cross-border eProcurement, experts agreed that:the volumes are still
very low,. The main reason is that Contracting Authorities want to deal with
bidders that speak their same language (to avoid misunderstanding and
ambiguities in the offer interpretation and contract preparation) and that can
Report on the “Uptake of pre-awarding phases in eProcurement” Workshop – Vienna, 22nd
February 2010
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