Business interoperability interfaces for public procurement in Europe Peter L. Borresen IT- architect National IT- and Telecom Agency, Denmark Chairman of the CEN/ISSS BII workshop
Background IDABC initiatives on eProcurement NES CODICE CIP i2010 roadmap pilot projects Danish cost savings initiatives
Vision To save administrative costs minutes pr. invoice To lowen the prices with a real common electronic marked To raise the quality of the business transactions To 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 process UBL-UN/CEFACT convergence Toolbox Pilot support
Organization Vice chair Peter Sontagbauer
Timeline Requir ement s Verifica tion and pilots Develo pement Update s and prototy pes Phase 1Phase 2Phase 3Phase 4 May 07 – Nov 07Nov 07- Apr 08Apr 08 – Feb 09Feb 09 Aug 09
CEN BII members so far 15 Countries 9 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 profiles Postawarding profiles Supporting profiles
Preawarding profiles Prior notification Notification simple Qualification Tendering Simple Tendering invitation