In 2009, the Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency (Kammarkollegiet, in Swedish) was assigned the task of analysing the need for state initiatives to build and maintain the infrastructure needed for effective eProcurement in Sweden.
As a preliminary for such an analysis, it:
- conducted a survey of the market for procurement systems and advertising databases;
- followed up the extent to which contracting authorities have introduced eProcurement; and
- examined how similar systems have been developed in other European countries.
The Agency concluded that the current procurement system, in which the contracting authority selects tenders on private-market procurement systems, is functioning well, and so there is thus no reason to establish a national procurement platform.
Regarding advertisement databases, the current situation is that there are up to ten in the private market which are partly overlapping and of varying and unknown size, and none covers all the advertisements. As a result, the Agency concluded that a national advertising database under state management should be established and that it should be mandatory for contracting authorities to publish all procurement advertisements there. Interested parties should be free to search the database, and advertising content should be made available to market participants that wish to develop and provide security and other supplementary services on commercial terms.
Further information:
- Original press release - Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency (in Swedish)
- Preliminary study on the future architecture for eProcurement - Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency (in Swedish)
---
Quelle/Source: epractice, 18.05.2011
Bitte besuchen Sie/Please visit:
