Peppol Introduction 20080419
- 1. PEPPOL Pan-European Public Procurement On-Line
- 2. STARTING POINT Government purchases in the European Union account for around 16 % of GDP, which is equal to 1,500 Billion Euro. Overall capabilities of governments to handle key processes with their suppliers such as tenders, orders, delivery notes, catalogues, invoices, or payments is lagging behind other major industries. The lack of common standards for electronic data exchange is considered an obstacle for companies to participate without barriers in public procurement processes. Overall, governments are the largest buyer in the European Union, but they are lagging behind major industries in electronic data exchange with suppliers.
- 3. CHANGE AHEAD The Manchester ministerial declaration of 24 November 2005 defines the target: “ By 2010 all public administrations across Europe will have the capability of carrying out 100 % of their procurement electronically and at least 50 % of public procurement above the EU public procurement threshold will be carried out electronically .” EU member states have expressed a political will to change public procurement significantly.
- 4. INITIATIVES Initiatives have reached the critical mass to lift off and generate a huge impact. Anticipate rapid changes for 2008 – 2011 ! CEN CEN/BII CEN/E-Invoicing CEN eCat etc. EU-COMMISSION CIP, IDABC. PROCURE,... PRIVATE SECTOR INITIATIVES SwissDIGIN, AustriaPRo
- 5. VISION The broader vision is that any company (incl. SMEs) in the EU can communicate electronically with any EU governmental institution for all procurement processes.
- 6. CIP LARGE SCALE PILOT The consortium is currently in contract negotiation with the European Commission. Pilots will be implemented, which demonstrate the interoperability of national solutions. The proposed budget is 20 Mio. Euro. A part of the budget is reserved for countries joining later. The project proposed has 3 main phases: Q2/2008 - Q2/2009: Requirements and design Q2/2009 - Q2/2010: Implementation Q2/2010 - Q2/2011: Pilots running The PEPPOL consortium has submitted a proposal under the European Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP) Call 2007.
- 7. CONSORTIUM AND REFERENCE GROUP Consortium Reference group (Participation in a second stage envisaged) Regional Nodes
- 8. COVERAGE Between October 2007 and April 2008 five additional countries decided to join the reference group. Number of countries Reference group Consortium Population covered (in Million)
- 9. STRATEGY National solutions will not be replaced, instead they will be aligned with common European standards and then linked. Common EU Standards
- 10. PROJECT SCOPE E-Signature Virtual Company Dossier E-Catalog E-Ordering E-Invoicing Consortium Management Awareness, Training and Consensus Building Solutions architecture, design and validation The project proposed consists of 8 workpackages:
- 11. FRAMEWORK Pre Award Tendering Post Award Procurement Payment Open Infrastructure (WP 8) eSignature (WP 1) eCatalogues (WP 3) eOrdering (WP 4) eInvoicing (WP 5) Virtual Company Dossier (WP 2)
- 12. ACTION REQUIRED Governments and their suppliers should adjust their business processes and modify their IT-systems. Standard software suppliers should modify their software and adhere to common standards for the public sector in the EU. Governments may have to adopt new laws: - All electronic processes should be as easy as possible and legal barriers need to be removed. - It should be mandatory to transact with government only electronically. Governments, suppliers and software companies have to take action now to avoid being left behind.
- 13. PARTICIPATE NOW Governments, which are not yet consortium members are invited to participate in a reference group to get more information and join the consortium later. A budget has been reserved for those countries. The project is interested in the views of the software industry. software suppliers are invited to participate in a technical advisory group to get all the information, how to connect to the PEPPOL infrastructure and provide their input to the design of the specifications. Governments and software companies are invited to participate now.
- 14. COORDINATION Coordination is considered very important to avoid duplication of efforts and share experiences. For each initiative or project relevant to the PEPPOL project a liaison manager will be appointed and other initiatives and projects are invited to do the same. The project is inviting all other initiatives relevant to public e-Procurement to link with PEPPOL. Expert groups Projects
- 15. CONTACT Further information can be obtained from the regional contact points below: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Iceland, Lithuania, Latvia, Norway, Sweden, UK/Scotland please contact: Mr. André HODDEVIK (Project Director) Email: cip@ehandel.no Austria, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Western Balkan please contact: Mr. Peter SONNTAGBAUER (Public Relation Director) Email: Peter.Sonntagbauer@brz.gv.at Bulgaria, Cyprus, Italy, Greece, Malta, Portugal, Spain, Romania please contact: Mr. Giancarlo DE STEFANO Email: giancarlo.destefano@tesoro.it Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands please contact: Ms. Maria A. WIMMER Email: wimmer@uni-koblenz.de