EU PILOT SCHEME SEEKS TO EASE CROSS-BORDER ELECTRONIC PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
May 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW pilot initiative is aiming to make European Union (EU) national electronic public procurement systems compatible, to ease cross-border online tendering. Although EU law insists that public procurement contracts are made available to suppliers from foreign member states, making such bids can involve difficult and unfamiliar paperwork. More recently, the EU legalised electronic procurement across the EU, but technical differences between e-government systems have hampered applications.
Now, the European Commission is working with member ...
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