Eprocurement Forum Newsletter N14

eProcurement Forum Newsletter N. 14 - 29 June 2009 This is the fourteenth issue of the eProcurement Forum Newsletter; it is sent regularly every month to the eProcurement Forum community members.

>>Next workshops - Open Call for Proposals The Forum Team is looking for your active support in order to organise the next community workshops. Therefore a Call for Proposal is open to collect your suggestions about: topics to be covered, cases to be presented and venues and organisational support. If you are interested please send your proposal to [email protected] or reply to the post at http://www.epractice.eu/en/blog/289630. - Next community Workshop: Re-thinking eProcurement According to SMEs The next community workshop will be held in Rome(Italy) on 2nd October 2009. The workshop will be co-organised by CONSIP and will focus on how eProcurement could be re-thought in order to be more accessible to the European SMEs. If you are interested in proposing a case, please contact Mrs Russo: http://www.epractice.eu/en/people/7508 or the Forum facilitators. More information can be found at the workshop page. >> 5th European EXPP Summit - Discounted tickets to attend the conference The organisers of the 5th European EXPP Summit (Amsterdam, 21-22 September 2009) have offered 15 tickets with a special discount of EUR 200 for the two days of the European EXPP Summit to the members of our community. Everyone who is interested in attending the event should send a request by e-mail to: [email protected] by 31July 2009. For more information see: http://www.epractice.eu/community/eprocurement/blog/325 >> A free copy of the IDABC eProcurement CD Every member receives a free copy of the IDABC eProcurement CD which contains guidelines and software to develop efficient eProcurement applications in line with the European legislation. To receive your free copy please revise your profile inserting your postal address or provide it to us by email. You are also warmly invited to insert your photo and to complete your profile; you will be awarded with extra kudos! >> eProcurement Blogs and Fora We are interested in monitoring and cooperating with other eProcurement Blogs and Fora. If you know any blog or forum which could be of any interest for us please send the details to [email protected].

Success stories for the community We are collecting contributions demonstrating the worthwhileness of our community. Have you established any cooperation with other members or are you reusing cases and assets from the eProcurement Forum? Please tell us the whole story by sending an email at: [email protected]. Please feel free to forward the eProcurement Forum Newsletter to whom it may be of use. You are welcome to send suggestions to [email protected] Latest Cases | View all cases | Submit a case

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Basque Government's eProcurement System (Spain, 2005-2009). 08 June 2009 | Spain Spanish Government eProcurement Platform 29 May 2009 | Spain CODICE - Interop. Components and Documents for eProcurement 29 May 2009 | Spain Catalogue and contract data synchronisation in healthcare 28 May 2009 | United Kingdom

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Next community Workshops: Re-thinking eProcurement According to SMEs 24 June 2009 Discounted tickets to attend the 5th European EXPP Summit 23 June 2009 Article on obstacles to pan-European e-procurement from a legal point of view on e-practice published 15 June 2009 Next community Workshops: new proposals have been submitted 06 June 2009 THE PROCURE EUROPEAN PROJECT EVALUATED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION 28 May 2009 a glimp into the future of e-invoicing 04 June 2009

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UK: ePS is gaining ground in eProcurement transactions 02 June 2009 | United Kingdom Latest Publications | View all publications | Propose a Library item

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EU: Requirements for Use of Signatures in Public Procurement Processes 17 June 2009 | Pan european EU: Functional and non-functional requirements specification for the VCD 17 June 2009 | EU Institutions EU: Electronic Signatures as Obstacles for Cross-Border eProcurement in Europe 16 June 2009 | , Czech Republic, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, EU Institutions

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AT: Eighth international EGOV conference 2009 30 August - 02 September 2009 | Austria NL: 5th European EXPP Summit 21 - 22 September 2009 | Netherlands IT: Re-thinking eProcurement According to SMEs 02 October 2009 | Italy IT: COM-PA 2009 03 - 05 November 2009 | Italy BE: Applying standards in eInvoicing 05 November 2009 | Belgium

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