Business interoperability interfaces for public procurement in Europe

Peter L. BorresenIT- architect National IT- and Telecom Agency, DenmarkChairman of the CEN/ISSS BII workshop

Background

IDABC initiatives on eProcurementNESCODICECIP i2010 roadmap pilot projectsDanish cost savings initiatives

Vision

To save administrative costs 12-20 minutes pr. invoice

To lowen the prices with a real common electronic marked

To raise the quality of the business transactionsTo agree on common interpretation of the EU directives

To create non-system depended interoperability.

Objectives

Interoperability

Harmonization

Prove it!

Objectives (full text)To identify and document the required business interoperability

interfaces related to pan-European electronic transactions in public procurement expressed as a set of technical specifications developed taking due account of current and emerging UN/CEFACT standards in order to ensure global interoperability

To co-ordinate and provide support to pilot projects implementing the technical specifications in order to remove technical barriers preventing interoperability .

Interoperabillity

Proces level

Data level

Techinal level

Activities

Message content and business processUBL-UN/CEFACT convergenceToolboxPilot support

OrganizationPlenaryChair

Peter Borresen

Project Team 1Message content

and business processes

Jostein Frømyr

Project Team 2UN/CEFACT-UBL

ConvergenceMartin Forsberg

Project Team 3Toolbox

José Luis Cueva

Project Team 4Pilot support

Mogens Christensen

Secretariat: Ismar Husic

Alain DeChamps

Vice chairPeter Sontagbauer

Timeline

Requirements Verification andpilots

DevelopementUpdates andprototypes

Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4

May 07 – Nov 07

Nov 07- Apr 08 Apr 08 – Feb 09 Feb 09 Aug 09

CEN BII members so far15 Countries9 Companies

Profile concept

A profile is set of collaborations in which the exchange of documents on business level are accurate agreed

A profile is the highest level of context to which business rules can be applied. This means that a profile is never dependend on an other profile.

A business partner can register which profiles he supports, and another business partner can start doing electronic business with him with out any other agreements than following the profile descriptions.

Profiles in CENBII

Preawarding profilesPostawarding profilesSupporting profiles

Preawarding profiles

Prior notificationNotification simpleQualificationTendering SimpleTendering invitation