The background: the e-bourgogne project

Carrying out the administration modernisation at the regional level 

In the context of a nationwide experiment carried out at regional level, French State entrusted the Burgundy region, in partnership with the Deposit Office, to carry out the national trial of a platform designed in the long term to carry services provided by all bodies in charge of public service assignments in Burgundy.

Since January 2005, a first version of this platform has provided a public procurement dematerialization service which is used by more than 900 public bodies in Burgundy.

Sharing the costs 

This service, carried out under GPL license (Free & Open Source Software), covers a wide range of functions, including the publication of consultation files, dematerialized receipt of tenders, dematerialized convening of market commission, alert services for new consultations for businesses, etc. New functions are currently being designed and tested (dematerialization of market commission executions, trade indicator monitoring, etc.).

The service has been a great success with businesses. So far, more than 10.000 businesses (most of them small and middle-sized businesses) have used it, generating a total of nearly 170.000 downloads (20.000 consultation files have been published since the 1^st of January 2005), and more than 6.000 electronic tenders.

The success of the service can be explained by:

• The numerous functionalities and options, and the added value provided by the service for businesses and particularly to small and middle-sized businesses (through single point access to all public markets in Burgundy, alert tools in the case of publication of new consultations, the possibility of registering certain tender documents once and for all and the possibility of organizing SMEs' public data and legal documents in a “secure virtual registry”),
• The set up of a comprehensive education plan for the whole Region public buyers.

For all

Work in on progress to deploy others e-administration e-services. Thus, e-bourgogne offers a single entry for enterprises financial grant application since January 2006.

Others services will come soon:

• Dematerialization of the transmission of accounting information between LAs and central administration services (experimentation currently in progress),
• Deployment of an electronic portfolio to e-sign the LAs decisions and meeting reports and dematerialization of the transmission of theses documents to the central administration services and (end of 2007),
• Services dedicated to citizens (end of 2008).

To know more about the e-bourgogne project, check www.e-bourgogne.fr