1The evolution of eProcurementin France with Peppol

Christophe AlvisetMinistry of Economics, Finance and Foreign Trade7th PEPPOL ConferenceMay 29th, 2012

2Plan

Where are we coming from ?What is our business ?What do we need ?

3eProcurement milestones2001 eTendering allowed ; can be mandatory <

thresholds2004 eInvoicing allowed2005 eSubmission cannot be refused > thresholds 2006 eNotices mandatory > 90k2010 eRFPs mandatory > 90k ; eSubmission can

be mandatory for any tender ; eSubmission is mandatory for IT tenders > 90k

2012 eSubmission cannot be refused > 90k ; eInvoicing cannot be refused

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5eRFPs adoption rates

6Tenders with at least 1 eSubmission

7Online tax return adoption rate

8Why ? eNotices and eRFPs dont need much security and

benefit all partiesNatural adoption

eSubmissions and eContracts are tougherBack office administrative systems and users not ready

before 2015Multiple eprocurement platformsNo immediate benefit but immediate riskNo previous skills with professional use of IT and

eSignaturesNo real adoption without coertion

9What is our business ?

B2BThe secure exchange of signed documents with potentially unknown parties, under the principle of equal treatment, within the General Procurement AgreementHelping contracting authorities and economic operators adopt eProcurementMonitoring eProcurement take-up

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eProcurement and IT trends

Gartner 2011 Cloud : natural evolution Mobile : for some transactions Social : none Information incl. Big data : not there

yet, lacking information on what is not electronic

Security : no incident yet, but no eSubmissions

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Security : Common criteria vs GPA

UE GPA non UE

Non GPA Total

Common criteria

12 7 6 25

Non CC 15 31

Total 27 38

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How is our business changing with Peppol?

From eProcurement platforms to an array of eProcurement services

From unstructured documents to some structured information exchange

From a separation between tendering and ordering to information common to tendering and ordering

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Questions ? Comments ?