Impact
Public Authorities
AOP Acquisti On line Piemonte service has been continuing to growth since its go live (2003). In particular between 2006 and 2007 there was a stronger service usage by the Health Sector. Several tenders related to medical apparels, medicines, medical consumable stuff, etc. were run and in 2007 a big tenders in aggregation of demand was made on medicines. On the eCatalogues side during 2006-2007 there was a rise-up in the number of items passing the stage of 13.500.
The transaction amount covered using catalogues is over 2 millions euro.
About framework agreement the ones expired were replaced by new confirming the interest demonstrated by local government.
Number of registered suppliers is increased of 5 times respect to second half of 2005 reaching at the end of 2007 about 1900 companies.
About 290 electronic auction/tenders were run on the system for an amount over 73 millions euro.
we count about 60 registered PA, the greater municipalities of Piemonte including the chief town. On Private Sector
Companies, among all serctors independetly form Their size, operate on the AOP system. The suppliers' size depends on the supplier markets morphology.
We count about 1.900 and 1.000 of them used the system in 2007, thanks to the system SME had the possibility to be more informed and to participate to tenders.
Benefits
The project impact isn’t a one off phenomenon because its produces positive growing effects since 2003.
In fact from the beginning the service faced an expansion as in terms of usage as in terms of functionalities available to the end users.
The service demonstrates viability and excellence in the following areas from a qualitative and quantitative point of view:
A - Qualitative
1.external effetcs on consumers: better quality of data and service due to transparency, security and data centralization/standardization related to PP
2.effects for Gov’ t: process efficiency increase, higher computerization (also in commnication with digital signature and Certified e-mail), employees’ knowledge increase, better data to perform monitoring,
3.effects for Business industry: simplification in relations with PA, potential rise of business opportunities
B – Quantitative
1.effects for Gov’t: Avarage purchasing prices savings 30%, purchasing process time decreasing in average of 30%, more than 13.500 items managed on eCatalogues, wide range of item category managed
One local government runns on our eProcurement service about 50% of the tender managed yearly.
Lessons learnt
The three main lessons learnt are:
1) the importance of training and communication through PA employees to make the success because miseducation hinders any kinds of initiative
2) the need of a strong Managemet Commitment from Local Administrations
3) Pay attention to the legislation to evolve the service fastly