End-to-end e-procurement
Committe of the Regions
Commission for Economic and Social Policy
Brussels, 2 October 2013
Ivo Locatelli
e-procurement and economic analysis of
procurement markets
The economic context
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Public expenditure: 19% of EU GDP !
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Difficult economic context – fiscal consolidation
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Annual growth survey
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Effective public administration key to competitiveness of EU
economy
o Growth enablers: digitisation, transparency, reduction of
administrative burden, reform of public procurement
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Benefits
1/2
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Facilitates e-government, and stimulates innovation
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Advantages for SMEs
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Important spill-over effects to other areas of the public
administration (and for e-invoicing – to B2B sector)
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Advantages:
o Shorter purchase-to-pay cycle
o Cut of administrative burden
o Improved transparency, accountability, traceability
o Reduced litigation, corruption, fraud
o Better monitoring
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Why "end-to-end e-procurement"?
 - Transition to e-procurement on the way
 - Extention to other parts/phases increases the potential benefits
 - Facilitates integration and digitisation of the different parts/phases
 - Political context (e-invoicing):
o EP resolution (April 2012): « make e-invoicing in PP mandatory by 2016 »
o European Council conclusions (June 2012): « priority should be given to
measures aimed at further developing cross-border online trade, including by
facilitating the transition to e-invoicing »
 - Timing: acting now before it gets too late
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End-to-end e-procurement
- Key actions of Communication:
• MS strategies for introduction of e-procurement and e-invoicing
• MS to consider using structural funds for training to facilitate
transition
• Multistakeholder Forum on e-invoicing; creation of similar forum
for e-procurement
• Sharing best practice
…and
• Legislative initiative on e-invoicing in public
procurement
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e-invoicing
- "Predominant mode of invoicing in the EU by 2020"
Goal:
•
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generate savings for administrations and businesses and help reduce
payment delays
facilitate use of e-invoicing for enterprises and create new business
opportunities
Objective:
Improve the functioning of the Internal Market by introducing
mechanisms that would diminish market access barriers in crossborder public procurement, generated by insufficient interoperability
of e-invoicing technical requirements or standards.
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Directive on e-invoicing in public
procurement
• Key elements:
o Scope: PP invoices only
o Directive mandates standardisation bodies to draw up a new European
e-invoicing standard
o Buyers obliged to accept electronic invoices compliant with the new
standard (technical requirements)
o The new standard will:
o build on existing specifications developed by CEN and UN/CEFACT
o not replace existing e-invoicing standards – national systems can continue to
be used
o Transposition: 4 years
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Enterprises sending / receiving both e-invoices in a standard structure suitable for
automatic processing and electronic data to/from public authorities in 2011 [%]
(Source Eurostat)
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
24
12
30
28
17
16
7
27
24
10
12
9
9 11 7
19
11
2
11
1
15 14
18
6
11
15
14 13
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Mandatory e-submission by Member State
in 2011
Number of Member States (MS) (Source IDC Italia)
PT
Mandatory for
all
5 MS:
DE,FR
LV,BE,
IT
Mandatory in
some cases
15 MS:
AT, CY,
DK, ES
FI, IE,
NL, PL,
SE, SK,
UK, HU,
LU, BG,
SI
3 MS:
CZ, RO,
LT
Mandatory
take-up targets
3 MS:
MT, EL,
EE
Mandatory
Planned
Voluntary
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Average level of up-take of esubmission by cluster of Member
States in 2011
Number of Member States (MS) (Source: IDC Italia)
3 MS:
NL, LV,
SK
No data
5 MS:
BG, EL,
HU,
LU, SI
0%
10 MS:
BE, CY,
CZ, EE,
FI, FR,
IT, MT,
PL, ES
4 MS:
AT, DK,
DE, RO
below 5%
5-10%
IE,
10-30%
3 MS:
PT, UK,
SE
30-50%
LT
above
50%
Level of up-take
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Questions?
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/publicprocurement/index_en.htm
For more information
contact:
Ivo Locatelli
ivo.locatelli@ec.europa.eu
Tel: +32 2 296 88 85