WP03 - European market and competition analysis

Objectives and approach

Conduct a preliminary transversal market and competition appraisal throughout Europe. It is a first layer analysis which objective is to build a global vision of the strategic background

Results

The results of WP3 are :

• The strategic background of the addressed market
• The description of the needed adaptations of the current service in order:
  • To get it fit with legal constraints (European directives, local specificities in Spain, Czech Republic and Sweden),
  • To address particular objectives of our project : How to get SMEs more interested in public procurement, how to address cross-border issues, how to efficiently differentiate from competition?
• The description of the solutions put in place in order to address cross border aspects
• The Business Plan of all the actors involved in the service delivery demonstrating that the global model is sustainable.

Deliverables

Work package 3 will lead to the issuance of the following deliverables:

• D3.1 – Analysis of relevant European case studies on e-procurement
• D3.2 – Competition analysis
• D3.3 – Cross-border issues on Procure
• D3.4 – Functional description of the targeted solution
• D3.5 – Business Model
• D3.6 – Synthesis report on solutions put in place on Procure in order to address cross border issues

Dependencies

Work package 3 begins at Procure project start date. It is a basic dependency of the Phase 2 work packages as it prepares work to be carried out.

WP4 (tasks T4.1 and T4.2) is a dependency of WP3 T3.4.

Contribution to the project objectives

WP3 enables to draw up the targeted solution as it will be presented to pilots regions. The regions then, on this basis, choose the modules they wish to test according their local needs and context.

WP3 also enable to inventory best practices regarding deployment and thus prepare deployment strategy definition in each pilots.