CEN WS/BII What is CEN WS/BII? The path towards more efficient procurement in Europe Paris June 2, Jostein Frømyr CEN WS/BII3 Vice-chair, technical coordination

CEN WS/BII Agenda 1. Our objectives 2. What can we offer today? 3. What have we achieved so fare? 2

CEN WS/BII Vision and mission The vision of the BII Workshop is that all organizations – independent of whether they are public or private and whatever their size and nationality - are enabled to conduct electronic business in an effective and efficient manner, significantly lowering costs for transaction processing. The CEN WS/BII Workshop mission is to spread and facilitate the use of e-procurement standards by suppliers and buyers, and especially public administrations, by: identifying requirements (including legal) regarding e-procurement standards; providing a general framework for the organizational and semantic levels of interoperability for the electronic procurement documents; supporting the implementation of commonly applied international e- procurement standards; providing organizational support to ensure the governance and maintenance for those requirements. 3

CEN WS/BII What is CEN WS/BII? B usiness I nteroperability I nterfaces for public procurement in Europe (CEN WS/BII) A workshop under CEN Phase 1  CWA 16073CWA Phase 2  5 CWAs5 CWAs 4 CWA BII Use of profiles in the tendering process CWA BII Post Award profiles CWA BII eCatalogue profiles CWA BII Tender Notification profile CWA Architecture

CEN WS/BII BII guides implementation of standards 5 Implementation guidance The focus of BII is on collecting European requirements and to provide guidance for consistent implementation of existing international developments. European business goals and requirements Standards UN/CEFACT SIMPLE, TRANSPARENT AND EFFECTIVE PROCESSES FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS. Global business goals and requirements Implementations Community business goals and requirements

CEN WS/BII Scope of work The scope of work for the workshop continues to be on achieving interoperability along whole procurement process, with a B2G perspective, including where possible also a B2B perspective (which in the post-award is very close to B2G perspective). Notification AccesseSubmissionAwardingContractFulfilmentInvoicing call for tender preparation Pre-awarding phases Ordering Payment Post-awarding phases identify need

CEN WS/BII Our approach A Profile is a technical specification describing: the choreography of the business process(es) covered, the electronic business transactions exchanged as part of the business process, the business rules governing the execution of that business process(es), its business collaborations and business transactions, as well as any constraints on information elements used the information content of the electronic business transactions exchanged documented in the form of transaction Information Requirement Models. Goal Requirements Syntax Validation

CEN WS/BII Core information requirements BII is defining core information requirement models the set of information elements sufficient to cater for the generally expressed business requirements applicable throughout the European market. BII specifications can be implemented as is, but may also be further customized for community use. 8 Customized Business Transaction Customized Business Transaction BII Business Transaction BII Business Transaction

CEN WS/BII Consistency throughout the whole Procurement process 9 Notification AccesseSubmissionAwardingContractFulfilmentInvoicing call for tender preparation Pre-awarding phases Ordering Payment Post-awarding phases identify need CWA Architecture CWA eNotification CWA eTendering CWA eCatalogue CWA eCatalogue CWA Post-award

CEN WS/BII BII is operational! 10 CEN WS/BII3

CEN WS/BII Summary of achievements Engaged stakeholders Robust methodology Useful deliverables Actual implementation Recognition of the added value Page 11 BII is contributing to making procurement in Europe more efficient!

CEN WS/BII BII enables interoperable e-procurements solutions BII Profiles allow for interoperability at the organizational level. BII Information Requirement Models allow for interoperability at semantic level. BII syntax binding and validation tools supports interoperability at technical level. 12

CEN WS/BII What’s in the future? Continue the work initiated by CEN WS/BII, and further refined under CEN WS/BII 2, to support interoperability in electronic procurement and business. Provide increased value to the BII user community by 1. Filling the gaps to ensure that all relevant aspects of e-procurement are covered 2. Facilitate increased use through capacity building 3. Securing the continued relevance of the BII deliverables by providing a focal point for governance and lifecycle management 13

CEN WS/BII Your path towards more efficient procurement! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! For more information: 14