The project objectives

Main goals are to:

• Validate the adaptability of the functional and technical current e-tendering service to deployments in different European regions
• Validate the legal methodology associated to the dissemination of the service: integrating national laws and optimal legal project structure
• Validate the end users deployment methodology, specifically the appropriate means to ensure a high level of adoption by SMEs.

Achieving the above goals will enable to:

• Deploy the e-bourgogne platform model in other Member States. Most striking points are the capacity to gather around a common project all public organizations on a geographic territory and to create appropriate structure to deliver the service (local concentrators and community around the IT solution),
• Adapt the current solution so that it fits to Member States specific needs regarding e-tendering (European directives, local specificities)
• Bring more SMEs to bid to public call for tenders
• Address cross-border issues regarding e-procurement by informing a company in a Member State of calls for tenders issued in other Members States and by enabling the company to electrically bid to them.