First meeting with businesses of the French Building Federation of the Côtes d'Armor department

On April 24, Mégalis has presented “e-megalis Bretagne” to 26 building entrepreneurs during a meeting set up by the FFB of the Côtes d'Armor . People, from the very small business owner to the CEO of 60 employees firm, were impressed by the solution offered by e-megalis/Procure and showed a real interest in developing dematerialization in their daily processes.

Thanks to the FFB 22, those enterprises have discovered a new way to deal with public procurement and will benefit from the simplicity and effectiveness of the e-megalis/Procure solution.

Mr Julien Raymond, CEO of SARPIC (flooring & wall covering) kindly answered our questions about dematerialization :

How do you perceive e-procurement ?

Each economic player (private & public) has to follow up with the development of new technologies and Internet to stay in the game. Moreover it's - at last - an opportunity to reach the “no paper policy” or at least to gain efficiency in daily business.

How does your business deal with this change ?

We already consult specialized websites to get information on public procurement. Considering this, e-tendering should no be too difficult as we are equipped in computers and know how to use them. The only big thing on my mind is that it's most likely that eventually we will have to work on digitalized plans. To do so, we would have to spend a lot of money in “A0 printer”, software and employees training. This is an issue that we sometimes face and the only solution at the moment is to pay a professional printer to get the plans on paper at the right scale.

How do you think those evolutions are welcomed in public administration?

Hard to say... I guess everyone benefits from that, but the main thing is that procedures, on paper or electronic, get simpler. Dematerialization is a mean to gain efficiency and not an end in itself. Simplification of procedures is the real issue for businesses.