Interoperability can be defined as the “ability of organisations to interact towards mutually beneficial goals, involving the sharing of information and knowledge between these organisations, through the business processes they support, by means of data exchange between their ICT systems”. Inter...
The digital transformation of Europe’s economies and societies is accelerating. It is entering a next phase, fuelled by a fusion of technologies that gradually blur the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres and push the frontier of what computers are capable of doing. These...
The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) programme has been providing vital EU funding for trans-European transport, energy and telecommunications networks since 2014. In the area of telecommunications, the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) has implemented the deployment of Digital Ser...
The aim of this report is to summarize the work of the Regulatory Aspects and Interpretation (RAI) subgroup, carried out from March 2015 to June 2016, by identifying the most pertinent problems for Member States when implementing e-procurement provisions in the new Public Procurement Directives....
This report aims to support service providers, contracting authorities and economic operators alike when they encounter problems while using electronic means for e-tendering. Such problems can be systemic or of a one-off nature. For example, the report includes several examples of where regulato...
The topic of Contract Registers (CR) has been of growing importance in the EU and on a global level. Interest in contract registers has also been noted when other topics have been discussed in subgroups of the EXEP. As a result, an EXEP Contract Register subgroup (CR subgroup) was established to...
eForms are a EU legislative standard for procurement data used by public buyers to publish notices on Tenders Electronic Daily, the European public procurement advertising website. The Commission Implementing Regulation1 (EU) 2019/1780 of 23 September 2019 established the standard forms (eForms)...
The purpose of this document is to describe the governance structure and how the life cycle will be managed for the eForms. The document consists of the following parts: 1. Background 2. Governance structure 3. Life-cycle management 4. Validation and conformance....
