Last update: 10/2005
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Objectives
Activities
Achievements
Who will benefit?
The role of IDABC
Technical Information
Objectives
The legislative framework for electronic public procurement adopted in 2004 will enter into force in 2006. By this date, procurement entities in Europe should be ready to perform procurement procedures electronically.
IDABC will contribute to:
- achieving interoperability in electronic public procurement;
- facilitating electronic public procurement by providing functional requirements, common tools or generic services for the contracting authorities;
- promoting the use of eProcurement in Europe by creating awareness of transborder eProcurement benefits and opportunities.
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Activities
- Analysis of standards and normalisation needs, especially in the field of eCatalogues;
- Update the functional requirements for eProcurement and identification of solutions for compliance verification;
- Study on standardisation and mutual recognition of business attestations frequently required in public procurement.
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Achievements
- Analysis of eProcurement activities in Europe and abroad to collect experience and select relevant practices.
- Improvement of the common procurement vocabulary codes (CPV, DG Internal Market) in order to take advantage of eTechnologies and integration with eCatalogues.
- Functional requirements for conducting electronic public procurement under the EU framework.
- Data models (XML) for exchanging information and enabling effective communication between buyers and suppliers using eProcurement systems.
- Learning demonstrators on how to implement the new legislation to help software editors and contracting authorities in Europe to develop eProcurement systems.
- eNotices service (Publications Office, OPOCE) to collect public procurement notices for publication in the Supplement of the Official Journal.
- eTendering platform pilot (Publications Office, OPOCE) for demonstrations and learning both for European Institutions and Member States.
- Feasibility study to analyse the generalisation of existing solutions as the German eProcurement platform.
- Study on trans-border barriers and enablers.
- Several workshops for information dissemination and discussion of eProcurement activities at European level.
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Who will benefit?
Public Administrations: eProcurement should minimise the time and effort expended by administrations and contracting authorities for organising public procurement competitions.
Businesses: It will also benefit enterprises keen to trade across borders, by giving them improved and easier access to public procurement opportunities across Europe.
Citizens: Making procurement procedures available to a larger audience of suppliers enables the public sector to purchase goods and services at more economically advantageous prices. Citizens will have reassurance that their administrations are spending money in a more cost-effective manner.
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The role of IDABC
Besides providing funds to the relevant activities, the Programme works in close cooperation with other Commission services such as the Internal Market Directorate General, the Publications Office (OPOCE) and the Information Society Directorate General to coordinate the management of these activities.
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Technical Information
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Project start date
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2001
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Project completion date
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2004
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Project status
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Implementation
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IDA budget
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2001 € 120,000
2002 € 330,000
2003 € 1,260,000
2004 € 400,000
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Responsible service
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DG Enterprise - IDABC Unit
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Project coordinator
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Emilio Castrillejo
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Contact
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idabc@ec.europa.eu
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Countries involved
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All EU Member States and Norway
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