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Agenda  Introduction to public procurement  General problems  Big contracts issue  Our goals  Progress  Summary & questions

Introduction  Public Procurement?  Small and Medium-sized Enterprises  The LOU act  Why is this such a big deal? >99% are SMEs The Swedish market accounts for 480 billion SEK (~ € 53 billion) SMEs cover 40% of Swedish GDP € 1500 billion market in EU

Issues  Generally a difficult and expensive process  A spread out database  Insufficient knowledge about legal issues  Too little dialogue between procurers and companies SCARE SMEs OFF!!

Our Solutions Automating the bureaucratic work process  Difficult and expensive process  A spread out database  Insufficient knowledge about legal issues  Too little dialogue between procurers and companies

Our Solutions Opic Svenska Handelshuset TED ajour The Almighty DB!!  Difficult and expensive process  A spread out database  Insufficient knowledge about legal issues  Too little dialogue between procurers and companies

Our Solutions  Courses E-learning  Easy access to documentations  Q&A with experts  Practical help offered  Difficult and expensive process  A spread out database  Insufficient knowledge about legal issues  Too little dialogue between procurers and companies

 Support dialogue between all parties  Forum General discussion about improvement of procurements Clarification during a procurement process Our Solutions  Difficult and expensive process  A spread out database  Insufficient knowledge about legal issues  Too little dialogue between procurers and companies

…so what?  General problems  Easy to solve  Integration into one system

Big contracts – Big companies SME Big company

Big contracts – Big companiesConsortiums SME Big company

Combinatorial Procurement SME Big company Consortiums

…so what? A future system should support:  Consortiums  Combinatorial Procurement

The System – Our Goals  Starting phase of a big project  Correctly specifying solutions  A groundwork for design solutions in future systems  Suggestions (and demo) on a comprehensive UI  Suggestions on further research

Progress  Problems and solutions are done  Working on design  Main focus is on UI

Summary  Public procurement framework  General procuring issues  The big contracts problem  Our contribution

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