www.peppol.eu Building the foundation for European wide eprocurement Project Director André Hoddevik Agency for Public Management and egovernment (Difi)
Facts & Figures Public Procurement Government procurement in the European Union account for around 19% of GDP, which is over 2.200 billion Euro It has been estimated that if eprocurement were introduced in all EU contracting authorities, annual savings could exceed 50 billion EUR* Less than 5% of total procurement budgets is awarded through electronic systems** Only 1,6% of contracts are awarded to undertakings from another Member State*** *Source: Deutsche Bank Research: E-procurement, February 2011 **Source:Green Paper on expanding the use of e-procurement in the EU. SEC(2010) 1214 ***Source: Green Paper on the modernisation of EU public procurement policy - Towards a more efficient European Procurement Market COM(2011) 15
The PEPPOL project The PEPPOL goal is to enable European businesses to easily deal electronically with any European public sector buyers in their procurement processes, thereby: Increase opportunities for greater competition for government contracts, giving better value for tax payers money encourage new and innovative ICT services simplify access to larger markets for suppliers (especially SMEs)
Challenges to eprocurement The lack of common business process standards and solutions make eprocurement complex and costly. Differing legal requirements make tendering across borders difficult for suppliers, in particular SMEs. Market fragmentation has resulted in technologically isolated islands of eprocurement in Europe, hampering interoperability.
How PEPPOL helps solve the Challenges Aligning business processes: Defining standards based PEPPOL Business Interoperability Specifications Addressing common legal issues: Establishing tools for uniform handling of esignatures, eattestations and ecatalogues Establishing a legal framework for many-to-many interoperability Developing interoperable technologies: Connecting the islands of eprocurement through PEPPOL Document Transport Infrastructure/eDelivery solution
Scope for PEPPOL solutions Page 6
esignatures PEPPOL has provided an esignature validation service/solution which covers all qualified certification authorities from the EU member states and beyond. Frank Schipplick, WP Manager, Bremen (DE) Contracting Authorities actively asking for esignatures: 300 Tenders with esignature requirements: 750 Number of validated esignatures: 7.062 Countries of activity: France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Norway Page 7
eattestations (VCD) PEPPOL has conceptualised and implemented a flexible solution for exchanging qualification documents electronically across borders, thereby ensuring mutual recognition of most frequently required evidences according to European and national procurement laws. Maria Wimmer, WP Manager, University of Koblenz (DE) Contracting Authorities actively using VCD: 4 Procedures with VCD requirements: 10 Number of VCDs received: 5 Countries of activity: Austria, France, Greece, Italy Page 8
ecatalogues PEPPOL has defined the architecture for a full cross-border interoperability of ecatalogues, delivering and guiding the implementation of the interface components and an instance of a central service that addresses the issue of the standardisation of item property definitions. Giancarlo De Stefano, WP Manager, CONSIP (IT) Contracting Authorities actively using ecatalogues: 2 Procedures with ecatalogue requirements: 4 Number of ecatalogues received: 4 Countries of activity: Austria, Greece, Italy, Norway Page 9
eordering and einvoicing PEPPOL has in close cooperation with CEN BII defined the specifications and implemented the foundation for pan-european post-award procurement in terms of business process descriptions and semantics. Christian Vindinge Rasmussen, WP Manager, DIGST (DK) BIS 1a post-award ecat: 17, 1, 12 BIS 3a eorder: 17, 1, 14 BIS 5a billing: 11, 0, 7 BIS 6a procurement only: 14, 0, 9 Potential Contracting Authority users: 64.535 Potential Economic Operator users: 185.929 Active CA/EO pairs: 15 Number of einviocing transactions: 1.042 Countries of activity: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, EC/DG DIGIT, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Norway, Spain, Sweden, UK Page 10
Transport infrastructure PEPPOL has designed and implemented a flexible, secure and reliable Transport Infrastructure technology and agreement structure enabling edelivery of business documents between public and private eprocurement infrastructures. Klaus Vilstrup Pedersen, WP Manager, Difi (NO) Countries of activity: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, EC/DG DIGIT, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Norway, Spain, Sweden, UK Page 11
Recruitment of PEPPOL users PEPPOL has raised the awareness about the scope, the findings, outcomes and results of the PEPPOL project throughout Europe, making available all useful implemented tools, guidelines and workflows developed within PEPPOL to relevant target groups, aiming to guarantee maximum impact and recruit users Enrique Vich, WP Manager, PEPPOL.AT (AT) Currently, 280 entities are under recruitment from PEPPOL teams Their area of interest: Page 12
Pilot implementation support PEPPOL has defined a model and established an organisation for the professional implementation and support of PEPPOL-conformant solutions within pilot projects, thereby driving the efforts of many organisations to deploy production-ready infrastructure compliant with PEPPOL specifications not only inside the project but also within the wider community of stakeholders active in public eprocurement around Europe. Lefteris Leontaridis, WP Manager, UPRC (GR) PEPPOL Pilot Lifecycle Management Methodology (PPLM) Support organisation (2 nd level support) User success stories Pilot Recruitment Evaluations/on-boarding Task Force end-to-end support for pilots Page 13
Project management Internally, PEPPOL has established and implemented a common registration and reporting system connecting all project participants to the same system, simplifying management reporting and financial project management. Gunnar Wessel Thomassen, WP Manager, Difi (NO) Page 14
Future of PEPPOL OpenPEPPOL AISBL (Under establishment) Non-profit international association under Belgium law Long term sustainability through user driven governance Continuation of legal agreement responsibilities Continued cooperation between MS and EU Short term plans: Further development and implementation of eprocurement building blocks in new Pilot A Basic Cross Sector Services (BCSS), ISA operations Medium term plans: Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Continued Standardisation CEN/other initiatives on eprocurement business process standardisation OASIS/other initiatives on edelivery/document Transport Infrastructure Page 15
Thank you for your attention! For more information: Phone +47 22451164 E-mail Web address andre.hoddevik@peppol.no www.peppol.eu