Public eProcurement

Public eProcurement

The term Public eProcurement (electronic procurement in public sector) refers to the use of electronic means in conducting a public procurement procedure for the purchase of goods, works or services.

Phases

The term of the Electronic Public Procurement can be defined as the usage of e-Government platform over the electronic resources (Internet and Web-based applications) to conduct transactions for purchasing the products and services from suppliers to authority's buyers.

The following sub-phases of the electronic public procurement process could be identified:

* eSourcing: preparatory activities conducted by the contracting authority/entity to collect and reuse information for the preparation of a call; potential bidders may be contacted, if admitted by the legal rules, by electronic means to provide quotations or manifest interest.
* eNoticing: advertisement of calls for tenders through the publication of appropriate contract notices in electronic format in the relevant Official Journal (national/EU); electronic access to tender documents and specifications as well as additional related documents are provided in a non-discriminatory way.
* eAccess: electronic access to tender documents and specifications as well support to economic operators for the preparaton of an offer, e.g. clarifications, questions and answers.
* eSubmission: submission of offers in electronic format to the contracting authority/entity, which is able to receive, accept and process it in compliance with the legal requirements.
* eTendering: is the union of the eAccess and eSubmission phases.
* eAwarding: opening and evaluation of the electronic tenders received, and award of the contract to the best offer in terms of the lowest price or economically most advantageous bid.
* eContract: conclusion, enactment and monitoring of a contract / agreement through electronic means between the contracting authority/entity and the winning tenderer.
*eOrders: preparation and issuing of an electronic order by the contracting authority/entity and its acceptance by the contractor.
* eInvoicing: preparation and delivery of an invoice in electronic format.
* ePayment: electronic payment of the ordered goods, services or works.

ee also

To successfully conduct electronic procurement across borders, eProcurement systems rely on some “key-enablers”

* eSignature: data in electronic form which are attached to or logically associated with other electronic data and which serve as a method of authentication with regard to this data.
* eIdentity: dynamic collection of all attributes, in electronic format, related to a specific entity (citizen, enterprise, or object) which serve to ascertain a specific identity.
* eAttestations (Virtual Company Dossier): set of certificates and attestations, in electronic format, to be provided by a supplier to prove compliance with the selection and exclusion criteria of a procurement procedure.
* eCatalogues: electronic supplier catalogue prospect uses used to prepare and submit offers or parts of them.
* eArchiving: use of electronic means for long-term preservations of documents in digitalised format, ensuring that they can be easily retrieved without conversions.

ources

* Most information on European public procurement can be found at the [http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/eprocurement European Commission] web site.
* In addition, the [http://www.epractice.eu/community/eprocurement eProcurement forum] is a source of knowledge and an exchange platform for eprocurement professionals


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