1. Development of eProcurement solutions in line with the European Directives, 14 th of January 2009 ELLECTRA-WeB Ellectra European Electronic Public Procurement Application Framework WeB in the Western Balkan Region (contract No. 045153) D R. G EORGOUSOPOULOS C HRISTOS Technical co-ordinator of ELLECTRA-WeB project

2. Development of eProcurement solutions in line with the European Directives, 14 th of January 2009 By 2010, all EU administrations will have the capability of carrying out 100% of their procurement electronically. Any business with a PC, internet connection and basic knowledge of public procurement can tender for contracts across Europe. Policy background It is a fact that… EU shows particular interest in implementing Open-Source as well procuring for it - Open-Source Observatory & Repository (OSOR.eu) - European Union Public License (EUPL) - Public Procurement and Open-source Software IDABC is promoting and supporting eProcurement - Guidelines for building ePP Solutions - eProcurement Demonstrators helpdesk service

3. Development of eProcurement solutions in line with the European Directives, 14 th of January 2009 Challenges Capital investment of implementing electronic Public Procurement is a major barrier for the uptake of ePP reduce development costs & complexity of electronic Public Solutions shorten development time facilitate deployment & use coordinate development and interoperability at local, regional, national and international level ensure EC Directives-compliance How to:

4. Development of eProcurement solutions in line with the European Directives, 14 th of January 2009 Concerns the development of an Open Source electronic Public Procurement Application Framework that facilitates the cost-effective implementation of electronic Public Procurement solutions that are compliant with the EC directives and EU best practices …our solution Technical perspective: Utilize evolutionary Software Development approaches Business perspective: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Model Driven Engineering (MDE)

5. Development of eProcurement solutions in line with the European Directives, 14 th of January 2009 Short introduction to MDE Model Generation Engine Code Benefits: Improves productivity Results in better code quality Increases portability & reusability Fosters interoperability Optimizes maintainability Testing & Simulation on early staged Limitation: enormous investment up-front … in our case this does not apply

6. Development of eProcurement solutions in line with the European Directives, 14 th of January 2009 ELLECTRA-WeB ePP Application Framework Collection of plug-ins: - ePP Model Library - Generation engine - Visual ePP constructual elements - Visual editors for customisations - ePP specific components e.g. UI pages, ePP forms, enc./dec. algorithms, conversion modules etc. - secure web-application - based on EU standards ePP Solution ICT developer ePP Application Framework (Eclipse-based IDE)

7. Development of eProcurement solutions in line with the European Directives, 14 th of January 2009 Alignment with Functional Requirements IDABC has documented a set of guidelines and defined the specifications for building ePP Solutions compliant to the EU legislative framework. IDABC Activity flows (steps) IDABC Functional Requirements Open procedure Restricted procedure Dynamic Purchasing System … EC Public Procurement Procedures Creation of a Call for Tenders Preparation and Public. of PIN … FR No.1: User Registration FR No.2: User Profiling FR No.3: User Authentication … UML - BPEL BPEL JAVA

8. Development of eProcurement solutions in line with the European Directives, 14 th of January 2009 IDABC Demonstrator IDABC Demonstrator front-end interface http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/eprocdemo/framework/default.html Influence of IDABC demonstrator ELLECTRA-WeB ELLECTRA-WeB front-end interface

9. Development of eProcurement solutions in line with the European Directives, 14 th of January 2009 Possible customisations Types of ePP Phases Notification Tendering Tendering evaluation Contract conclusion Easy modification of ePP Processes & UI use of visual editors Authorisation /Authentication types User Credentials Digital Certificates PKI User Credentials & PKI User Credentials & Digital Certificates Tender document submission client-side server-side ePP Form visualisation Tabs-view, tree-view Multilingualism Option for extensibility support: - repetitive contracts e.g. DPS, FA - extensions e.g. e-auctions

10. Development of eProcurement solutions in line with the European Directives, 14 th of January 2009 Conclusion ELLECTRA p ELLECTRA provides an MDE-based, integrated development environment on ECLIPSE which is composed of: modeling tools for the production of required ePP models ePP models that adhere to IDABC Functional Specifications a J2EE code generation engine that generates code from the ePP models standard ePP application in accordance to IDABC demonstrators coherent documentation Utilising ELLECTRA to develop ePP applications: reduces development costs & complexity shortens development time substantially enables modularity & reusability is Open-Source !

11. Development of eProcurement solutions in line with the European Directives, 14 th of January 2009 ELLECTRA-WeB Consortium partners C-CENTER EXIT CENTER StCyril and Methodius University of Skopje Evolution Online D.O.O. Ministry of Finance – Public Procurement Bureau Ministry of Science and Technology,Republic of Srpska INTRASOFT International S.A. (Project coordinator) PLANET S.A. CIM College D.O.O. SINTEF ICT

12. Development of eProcurement solutions in line with the European Directives, 14 th of January 2009 Forthcoming workshop I would like to invite you on … International Workshop on Electronic Public Procurement (ePP) in South-East Europe 26 th of February 2009 Athens, Greecewww.ellectra-web.eu … invitation leaflets are left on the registration desk

13. Development of eProcurement solutions in line with the European Directives, 14 th of January 2009 Official web-site: Official web-site: http://www.ellectra-web.eu SourceForge.net: SourceForge.net: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ellectra-web ePractice.eu case: ePractice.eu case: http://www.epractice.eu/cases/ellectraweb OSOR.eu: OSOR.eu: http://forge.osor.eu/projects/ellectra-web Contact person: Christos.Georgousopoulos@intrasoft-intl.com …further details

14. Development of eProcurement solutions in line with the European Directives, 14 th of January 2009 Thank you for your attention