Regional Agency for the development
of electronic markets
INTERCENT-ER Agency
PEPPOL implementation in Italy
and e-invoicing standardisation
Paris - June 02, 2014
Emilia-Romagna: general overview
Economics
Operator
Public
Administrations
Citizens
•
4,5 million inhabitants
•
9 Provinces
•
EO: 382.186
•
population density: 197/ km2
•
348 Municipalities
•
Employees: 1.628.245
•
14 Health Trusts and hospitals
•
Small enterprises (<20
employees): 98%
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Intercent-ER: role and goals
Intercent-ER is Emilia-Romagna’s central purchasing unit for Public
Administrations. Totally funded by the Regional Government and active
since 2005, Intercent-ER has developed an eProcurement system and an
innovative approach to public tenders in order to:
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rationalize the public spending for goods and services in the regional
area;
•
improve the efficency of procurement processes;
•
increase the quality of goods and services used by public bodies;
•
raise market competitiveness;
•
enhance the regional economic system.
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Public Administrations involved
Intercent-ER operates for:

Regional Government and public
bodies directly owned by the Region

Local Public Bodies (i.e. provinces,
municipalities, etc.)

Health Trusts and Hospitals

Universities and schools

other regional PAs
The use of Intercent-ER’s
services is mandatory
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The use of Intercent-ER’s services
is optional
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Our approach to the whole digital procurement process
Post-award process
Pre-award process
eSocurcing
eNotification
eTendering
eNegotiation
eCatalogue
eOrdering
eInvoicing
Suppliers can be selected through a
eletronic tender completely paperless.
Suppliers and PAs use standard
documents and exchange them with
interoperable systems
Intercent-ER’s
ePROCUREMENT PLATFORM
Intercent-ER’s
ACCESS POINT NoTIER
Spending analysis
and reporting
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The regional infrastucture for digital procurement
• Since october 2013, Intercent-ER has been incharged to
set up the regional infrastucture for digital procurement
(SiCiPa-ER)
• main SiciPa-ER tasks:
the generation, sending, transmission, reception and
preservation of e-procurement documents
generation
sending
transmission
reception
only paperless
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preservation
The regional Access Point: NoTIER
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NoTIER has been developed as a fully interoperable Access
Point, to exchange e-procurement documents between
different systems, especially with electronic invoices
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NoTIER ensures the sending, transmission, reception of the
document validating legal requirements, european and
national technical standards on electronic invoicing
Access Point
(NoTIER)
Preservation
archive
centre for
PAs (PArER)
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Italian national
e-invoicing infrastructure
Integrated
regional
Infrastructure
for digital
procurement
(SiCiPAER)
European e-invoicing
standards
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Our PEPPOL implementation till now
Go live: November 2013
Drug
invoices
PA vs PA
Digital
Preservation
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Vast Area's logistic hub for Health local Trusts and
Hospital
Sender: Reggio Emilia health trust
Recipient: other local health administrations
Born-digital invoice’s records transferred from Public
Administrations to the regional centre archive of digital
records (ParER) which is responsible for the long term
preservation
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OpenPEPPOL framework
Service
Metadata
Locator
Service
Metadata
Publisher’s
Provider
S
U
P
P
L
I
E
R
DA*
(PEPPOL)
Invoice
(PEPPOL)
Supplier’s
Service
Provider
Order
(PEPPOL)
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*: DA = Despatch Advice
Service
Metadata
Publisher
Public
Internet
DA*
PEPPOL
Invoice
PEPPOL
Order
PEPPOL
PA’s
Access Point
DA*
PEPPOL
Invoice
PEPPOL
L
O
C
A
L
Order
PEPPOL
P
A
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Italian national framework
invoice SdI
signed
S
U
P
P
L
I
E
R
Invoice SdI
validated
Receipt/Failed delivery/Rejection
notification
Digital
preservation
archive
Invoice SdI
signed
Invoice
xml
Receipt/Failed
delivery/Rejection
notification
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Supplier’s
Service
Provider
Receipt /Rejection
notification
National
Interchange
System
(SDI)
Receipt/Failed
delivery/Rejection
notification
Digital
preservation
archive
Receipt/
Rejection
notification
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Invoice
xml
Invoice SdI
validated
PA’s
Service
Provider
Receipt
/Rejection
notification
P
A
Emilia Romagna’s regional framework:
link PEPPOL-SdI: eProcurement
CENTRAL PA
Receipt
/Rejection
notification
By
31/03/2015
Invoice SdI
validated
Digital preservation
Region’s archive centre
for PAs (PArER)
Invoice SdI
signed
S
U
P
P
L
E
R
S
Receipt/Failed delivery/Rejection
notification
Invoice
xml
Receipt
/Rejection
notification
Order
xml
Format
conversion
PEPPOL/SdI
Receipt/Failed
delivery/Rejection
notification
(SDI)
Invoice SdI
signed
fattura
SdI
validated
Receipt
/Rejection
notification
Supplier’s
Service
Provider
DA
xml
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Invoice SdI
signed
National
Interchange
System
Order
PEPPOL
DA
PEPPOL
*: DA = Despatch Advice
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Format
conversion
SdI/PEPPOL
PEPPOL/SdI
PA’s
Service
Provider
(NoTIER)
Invoice
PEPPOL
Receipt
/Rejection
notification
Order
PEPPOL
DA
PEPPOL
L
O
C
A
L
P
A
Key points
NOTIER
achieves the full
interoperability
being compliant
with
PEPPOL transport
infrastructure
and the
national technical
requirements
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Regional PAs have to
use only one semantic
and syntactic format
• Using PEPPOL specifications
for orders, despatch advices
and invoices allows you to
automatically check the
mutual validity between
eProcurement's electronic
records
NoTIER manages the
format convertion
issues
• PEPPOL BIS (UBL 2.1)
• National format (SdI)
NoTIER ensures
semantic and syntactic
interoperability
• Toward national
market
• Toward crossborder
markets
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Thank you for your attention
Intercent-ER
Viale A. Moro n. 38
40127 – Bologna, Italy
Phone number: +39 (0)51 5273081
Mail:intercenter@regione.emilia-romagna.it
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