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CEN/BII Enabling European E-Procurement

Peter Sonntagbauer – Federal Computing Center, Austria(Vice-Chair CEN/BII workshop )

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Objectives of the Workshop

The objectives are

Identify and document the required Business Interoperability Interfaces related to Pan-European electronic transactions in public procurement and document them as a set of technical specifications

The UN/CEFACT standards are taken into account in order to ensure global interoperability

Provide support to pilot projects implementing the technical specifications in order to remove technical barriers preventing interoperability (specifically the PEPPOL project)

The starting point for the workshop were the NES and CODICE customizations of OASIS Universal Business Language 2.0 

Business Interoperability Interfaces

Organisational (process) level

Semantic (Data format) level

Technical (transport) level

Legal level (out of workshop scope)

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Current status

TR Technical Report CWA CEN Workshop Agreement TS Technical Specification („pre standard“) EN European Norm

Current status: CWA in public reviewCWA to be published 11/2009

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Results (1): Profiles

CWA-1: Profiles

Profile: Message Content and Business Process Profiles typically used in public procurement A Profile commits two Business Partners by specifying how they implement electronic messaging support for one or more Business Process(es). A Profile further specifies one or more Business Rules Benefit: Well designed and best practice based specifications of e-procurement workflows Profiles cover: Publication, Tendering, Sourcing, Ordering and Billing and support transactions

More: http://spec.cenbii.eu/Index.html

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Results (2)

CWA – 2: UN/CEFACT – UBL Convergence

Continous support of TBG1 development Requirement gathering UBL and UNCEFACT Benefit: ensure smooth transition of current standards to a future unified international standard

CWA – 3: Toolbox

Detailed sets of requirements or specifications for tools Pilot or prototype tools that can serve as reference implementation for a given functionality Analysis and evaluation of the suitability of existing tools Benefit: Reduced implementation costs

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Results (2)

CWA – 4: Pilot support

Documented common base test criteria and success measures. Project templates used to execute and evaluate pilot projects. Benefit: Provide implementation support based on best Pan-European practices

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Key benefits

„Ready to use – minimizes „Applied in the PEPPOL project“implementation efforts“ Stefan Krammer, Workpacke Coordinator Sverre Bauck – Agency for Public E-Ordering, PEPPOL Project – Federal Management and e-Government Procurement Agency, Austria Norway

„Building on open standards like CEN/BII „A next generation framework agreedcreates business opportunities for and supported across Europe“software companies in Europe“ Vania Rostagno, Senior AdvisorAnders Kingstedt, CEO, Ecru Consulting CSI-Piemonte, Procurement Directorate Sweden Italy

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Collaboration

There is a close collaboration with major stakeholders in Public E-Procurement and E-Invoicing

PEPPOL project (using the CEN/BII results) European Commission

-DIGIT – E-PRIOR Project -IDABC – E-Practice.EU -DGEnterprise: E-Invoicing expert group TBG6 UN/CEFACT TED OASIS National E-Procurement projects

CEN BII CWA:

Is a framework that will enable a Single Electronic Market for Public E-Procurement

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Thank you

More information:

http://www.cen.eu/CENORM/BusinessDmains/BusinessDomains/ISSS/Activity/ws_bii.asp

Contact: Peter Sonntagbauer Federal Computing Center (Bundesrechenzentrum –BRZ) peter.sonntagbauer@brz.gv.at

The Next Generation of electronic business document exchange

CEN BII provides CWA’s that when implemented will increase the level of interoperability between systems that rely on the UBL and CEFACT business document standards.

CEN BII has also addressed issues related to implementation and the testing of implementations.

Organized use of the CEN BII CWA is being tested by PEPPOL

The CEN BII WS is providing the next generation platform for electronic business document exchange.