Having recently successfully completed its first year of activities, the PEPPOL (Pan-European Public Procurement Online) project will present its initial results and discuss the future of eProcurement during a networking session of the ICT 2010 event (Brussels, 27-29 September 2010).

ICT 2010 will host dozens of networking sessions designed to facilitate contacts between researchers and innovators, engineers and investors from all fields of digital innovation. The PEPPOL networking section is scheduled for 28 September 2010 at 2:00 pm CET, in Tent 008, Brussels Expo.  

Those interested in participating in the PEPPOL networking session are invited to comment under the following link, where they can also find additional information, including the session's draft agenda: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/ict2010/item-display.cfm?id=3313.

PEPPOL is a European Commission pilot project on electronic procurement. Many EU countries use eProcurement to make bidding for public sector contracts simpler and more efficient. However, such solutions are often implemented at national level only, with limited cross-border coordination. PEPPOL aims to make electronic communication between companies and government bodies possible for all procurement processes throughout the EU. This will enable the connection of existing national systems, which is essential to allow businesses, especially SMEs, to bid for any public sector contract from anywhere in the EU. It is also an important step towards achieving the Single European Market.

 

Further information:

• Original news article - PEPPOL project
• PEPPOL project
• PEPPOL networking session at ICT 2010
• Related ePractice event notice - BE: ICT 2010