PEPPOL is an EU co-funded project CIP-ICT PSP-2007 No Informal Meeting on Pre-Award Architecture Rome,

PEPPOL is an EU co-funded project CIP-ICT PSP-2007 No Contracting Authorities Bilateral CA-EO communications Economic Operators

PEPPOL is an EU co-funded project CIP-ICT PSP-2007 No Contracting Authorities 4-corner CA-EO communications Economic Operators E-Delivery Gateway

PEPPOL is an EU co-funded project CIP-ICT PSP-2007 No Simplicity, Efficiency, Scalability One interface for EOs, provided by Service Providers and (in the future) ERP systems – lowers the threshold for SME participation in public temders CA does not have the complexity of supporting a large number of EOsand can delegate trust and transparency services to the e-Delivery providers Market-oriented sustainability Encourages the development of different business models for ICT system and service provision for eNotification, eAccess, eSubmission Increases the potential for further eProcurement takeup Connect once, communicate with everyone Easier to provide interoperability across e-Procurement communities Lowers threshold for cross-border participation in public tenders Page 4 Advantages of the 4-corner model

PEPPOL is an EU co-funded project CIP-ICT PSP-2007 No Publish tender notice in OJEU (+NAT) (no PEPPOL tool) eCatalogue components or tool The Pre-award process – Preparing and publishing the call for tender asssas Contracting Authority List qualification criteria and requested documents Specify goods and services required Evidences Attestations Qualifications Economic Operators Retrieve tender notice from OJEU (or NAT) Retrieve/receive tender documentation Publish/send tender documentation (no PEPPOL tool) VCD tool or components

PEPPOL is an EU co-funded project CIP-ICT PSP-2007 No Contracting Authority The Pre-award process – Preparation and submission of tender Specify goods and services Prepare evidences for qualification Sign all and Submit tender eSignature validation tool and service Economic Operators Evaluate tender & select supplier Check Evidences (VCD tool) Visualize Goods and services Check Other documentation eCatalogue components (or tool) asssas 13d34 22asDE VCD tool (or components) eCat components (or tool) asssas 13d34 22asDE VCD tool (or comp.)

PEPPOL is an EU co-funded project CIP-ICT PSP-2007 No Pre-Award CC F2F Meeting, VCD WG Rome,

PEPPOL is an EU co-funded project CIP-ICT PSP-2007 No Standardization of pre-award communications regarding e- Qualifications and e-Attestations, following the BII approach (VCD. BIS). Use of the Transport Infrastructure for e-Qualifications in pre-award but also post-award Central service supporting semantic mapping of qualification evidences to support VCS operations, enhancing the CEMS engine More national ontologies to increase scope of interoperability Cooperation with the EC and eCertis for the institutionalization of a document equivalence service based on the VCD Further development of core services and building blocks supporting pre-award e-Procurement, including (but not limited to) convergence scenarios in e-SENS Assistance in the real-case implementation/roll-out of VCD- compliant services(e.g.ePRIOR) Page 8 Goals of the VCD WG

PEPPOL is an EU co-funded project CIP-ICT PSP-2007 No Full alignment with CEN/BII Update VCD schema Update core VCD components and reference implementation Further work on specifications and building blocks Update of the VCD ontology Development of the Criterion Editor Development of an Ontology Management Interface for CEMS Use of the Transport Infrastructure by the reference implementation Support of VCD implementation and operations within the PrACC Setup of support workflow and resources Liaison to implementers: Italy, France, Czech Republic, e-Prior, Greece Continuity of the CEMS semantic mapping service Page 9 VCD-WG: Priorities and Activities (1/2)

PEPPOL is an EU co-funded project CIP-ICT PSP-2007 No Liaison with the EC Support to e-Prior for re-using VCD in their e-Qualification project Discussions with DG MARKT on using the VCD semantic mapping approach for an enhanced eCertis E-Procurement Piloting in e-SENS Convergence scenarios between VCD/OCD approaches (CC6.2) Development of pilot implementation plans of current Beneficiaries and further OpenPEPPOL Members in WP5.1 Supporting VCD pilots in e-SENS through OpenPEPPOL Page 10 VCD-WG: Priorities and Activities (2/2)

PEPPOL is an EU co-funded project CIP-ICT PSP-2007 No Page 11 The VCD Use Case: Overview

PEPPOL is an EU co-funded project CIP-ICT PSP-2007 No Process Re-alignment centralized and/or de-coupled scenarios Use of Pre-qualification bodies, extended use of self declarations Use of BBs eDelivery: decoupled eSubmission, pull from issuing bodies (?) Semantics: CEMS central service - Convergence scenarios between VCD/OCD approaches (joint requirements with 5.4 to CC6.2) eSIgnature: sign VCD package (needed when whole tender is signed?) Domain Use Case – to update MS piloting intentions Italy: AVCP (provided, to update) Germany: xVergabe (to provide) Greece: tp be provided, depending on admministration commitment Others? OpenPEPPOL to explore Page 12 VCD Piloting approach for e-SENS

PEPPOL is an EU co-funded project CIP-ICT PSP-2007 No Update VCD schema PrACC VCD WG Update core VCD components and reference implementation PrACC VCD WG Update of the VCD ontology E-SENS, depending on CC6.2 convergence Development of the Criterion Editor PrACC VCD WG Development of an Ontology Management Interface for CEMS E-SENS, depending on CC6.2 convergence Use of the Transport Infrastructure by the reference implementation E-SENS Page 13 Further work in PrACC and/or e-SENS