CEN WS/BII The uptake of new technologies and the challenge for standardization ; the case of e-procurement and e-invoice Presentation at the 2 nd Conference.

CENWS/BII

The uptake of new technologies and the challenge for standardization;

the case of e-procurement and e-invoice

Presentation at the 2nd Conference on e-procurement and e-invoicing in the EU

Brussels

September 18, 2013

Stuart Feder and Jostein Frømyr

CEN/BII Chair and Vice Chair

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The challenge of e-procurement and e-invoice

For the EU internally How to deal with many countries, many markets, many

requirements, many formats, many systems, many opportunities for simplification, many investments and many infrastructures

For the EU in the global marketplace How to ensure how EU ways forward are outward looking How to interface and open/extend opportunities for

access to markets outside the EU How to avoid duplication of effort

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BII as an initiative to help achieve the Digital Single Market

Legislation and standards are the cornerstones of the Digital Single Market

BII focuses on systematic statement of requirements to foster implementations of e-procurement and e-invoice Building on existing standards Starting from technology-neutral principles Making sure that they are open for use within the EU and

within the global trading community Adaptable to a diversity of solutions and the principle of

subsidiarity within the EU For the global marketplace, the way forward relies on

consensus

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BII is fostering the uptake of new technologies by facilitating semantic interoperability

Re-usable common semantics are the building blocks Re-usable semantic data models are the target Technology is the enabler

but it evolves and marches to independent tunes of innovation and infrastructure investments

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Driving principle going forward

The uptake of new technologies is facilitated through a technology-neutral tool kit that fosters semantic interoperability: making use of common methodologies and standards for articulating requirements, re-usable common semantics, re-usable semantic data models and available syntax-bindings.

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What BII has done and will do ....

CENWS/BIIBackground

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• CWA 16558: Business Interoperability Interfaces for Public procurement in Europe

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• CWA 16558: BII Architecture• CWA 16559: BII eNotification• CWA 16560: BII eTendering• CWA 16561: BII eCatalogue• CWA 16562: BII Post Award

Identifying what still needs to be included and assisting in fostering implementations

BII deliverables are in operational use

CENWS/BIIVision and mission

The vision of the BII Workshop is that all organizations – independent of whether they are public or private and whatever their size and nationality - are enabled to conduct electronic business in an effective and efficient manner, significantly lowering costs for transaction processing.

The CEN WS/BII Workshop mission is to spread and facilitate the use of e-procurement standards by suppliers and buyers, and especially public administrations, by: identifying requirements (including legal) regarding e-procurement standards; providing a general framework for the organizational and semantic levels of

interoperability for the electronic procurement documents; supporting the implementation of commonly applied international e-

procurement standards; providing organizational support to ensure the governance and maintenance

for those requirements.

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CENWS/BIIOur focus

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Implementation guide

Standards

UN/CEFACTSIMPLE, TRANSPARENT AND EFFECTIVE PROCESSES

FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS.

Implementations, e.g.

The focus of BII is on collecting European requirements and to provide guidance for consistent implementation of existing international developments.

CENWS/BIIObjective of BII3

Continue the work initiated by CEN WS/BII, and further refined under CEN WS/BII 2, to support interoperability in electronic procurement and business.

Provide increased value to the BII user community by

1. Filling the gaps to ensure that all relevant aspects of e-procurement are covered

2. Facilitate increased use through capacity building

3. Securing the continued relevance of the BII deliverables by providing a focal point for governance and lifecycle management

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CENWS/BIIScope of work

The focus of the workshop will still be the interoperability along the procurement process, with a B2G perspective, including where possible also a B2B perspective (which in the post-award is very close to B2G perspective).

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eNotification

eAccess eSubmission eAwarding contract Fulfilment eInvoicingcall for tender

preparation

Pre-award

eOrdering Payment

Post-award

identifyneed

Methodology and architecture

Capasity building

Coordination with other activities

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Thank you for your attention

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