1st European Conference on e-Public Procurement (ECPP Organized by OPET (Technical University of Lisbon,IST) In IQS - Barcelona, 20th March 2013
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1. Why a Conference on e-public procurement?
More than 17% of European GDP is due to public procurement and hence priority should be given to improve adopted practices and achieve results with the objective of meeting the new challenges of financial stability and sustainable growth of the European Union.
Fortunately, e-public procurement can play a strategic role: a) to generate public savings through improved sourcing and more effective competition between suppliers;
b) to increase transparency and fair decision making to award public contracts;
c) to help SMEs to participate in public markets;
d) to stimulate innovation and the development of e-marketplaces;
e) to promote a low-carbon society and more sustainable growth. The European Commission proposed new Directives for Public Procurement on December 2011 introducing mandatory e-public procurement after 2016 (including e-tendering) and the approval of these new Directives is expected before this conference being held in Barcelona. The dissemination of e-public procurement seems feasible due to the increasing market of eplatforms offering procurement services as SaaS (Software as a Service) supported by more robust and mature ICT and pursuing the “cloud computing” paradigm. This explains the opportunity to organize, for the first time, a European conference on epublic procurement covering the wide range of problems and of disciplines required to understand and to master e-public procurement.
2. Objectives
The objectives of this 1st European Conference on e-Public Procurement are: Discussing the implications of the single digital market on public procurement; Presenting the new advances of e-procurement available through Software as a Service (SaaS); Discussing the role of e-procurement to improve the management of each
organization; Identifying major macro-economic benefits due to the dissemination of e-public procurement; Discussing alternative strategies to simplify and to overcome e-procurement obstacles; Analyzing the new European Directives for e-public procurement; Presenting e-procurement impacts on innovation and on SMEs access to public markets; Proposing new initiatives to increase cross-border public procurement;
3. Program Chair
Professor Luís Valadares Tavares
OPET and Technical University of Lisbon, IST Professor Gustavo Piga
University of Rome Tor Vergata
4. INTERNATIONAL PANEL | Miguel Sobral | Czech Republic | Vortal Central Europe | | Michel Entat | France | Axemio | | Marc Schmidt | Germany | Procurement Agency of the Federal Ministry of the Interior | | Konstantino Kaggelides | Greece | Gnomon Informatics, SA | | Mike McGrath | Ireland | Supply.ie | | Gustavo Piga | Italy | University of Rome | | Drjfhout Kornelis | Netherlands | TenderNed | | Tadeusz Rudnicki | Poland | Institute of Logistics and Warehousing | | Luís Valadares Tavares | Portugal | Technical University of Lisbon | | Cao Fuguo | PRC | Law School of Central University of Finance and Economics, China | | Manuel Caño | Spain | Nexus IT | | Umit Alsac | Turkey | Public Procurement Authority | | Kerstin Holmdahl | Sweden | SKL – Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions | | Christopher Bovis | UK | University of Hull | | Cliff McCue | USA | Florida Atlantic University | 5. PROGRAM COMMITEE
Miguel Sobral (Czech Republic), Michel Entat (France), Marc Schmidt (Germany), Konstantino Kaggelides (Greece), Mike McGrath (Ireland), Gustavo Piga (Italy), Drjfhout Kornelis (Netherlands), Tadeusz Rudnicki (Poland), Luís Valadares Tavares (Portugal), Manuel Ricou (Portugal), José Antunes Ferreira (Portugal), António Aguiar Costa (Portugal), Amílcar Arantes (Portugal), Cao Fuguo (PRC), Manuel Caño (Spain), Enric Torregrosa (Spain), Ramiro Olivas Navas (Spain), Umit Alsac (Turkey), Kerstin Holmdahl (Sweden), Christopher Bovis (UK), Paula Faustino (UK), Cliff McCue (USA).
6. Organizing Committee
Luís Valadares Tavares António Aguiar Costa Gonçalo Marques Mendes Tiago Tavares Vasco Borges Moreira
7.PROGRAM
All sessions and documents will be in English. The program includes multiple perspectives about e-public procurement presented by authors from 13 countries and from the European Commission as well as the presentations and the discussions of services of e-public procurement provided by a National Portal and Seven Companies from Netherlands, Portugal, UK, Finland, Spain and Greece.
| 8h30 – 9h30 | Registration | | 9h30 – 10h00 | Opening Session – Auditorium FCC | | 10h-00 – 10h45 | Plenary I – Auditorium FCC Why e-Public Procurement? – Luís Valadares Tavares The Economics of e-Public Procurement – Gustavo Piga | | 10h45 – 11h15 | Coffee Break at Polivalente Room | | 11h15 – 13h30 | Parallel Sessions (Each Presentation between 10 and 15 minutes) Session A| Best Practices of e-Public Procurement in different countries - I Session B| Best Practices of e-Public Procurement in different countries - II Session C| Services of e-public procurement provided by the Major Sponsors: InCI, Vortal, Nexus-IT, Negometrix, and Pixelware | | 13h30 – 14h30 | Light Lunch – offered to registered participants at the University Restaurant | | 14h20 – 15h15 | Plenary II Business Interoperability Interfaces for public procurement in Europe – Kornelis Drijfhout, CEN/BII | | 15h15 – 17h30 | Parallel Sessions (Each Presentation between 10 and 15 minutes) Session D| Change Management for e-Public Procurement Session E| New Approaches to e-Public Procurement Session F| The Process of e-Public Procurement: Key Tasks Session G| e-Public Procurement: Taxonomy and Networking Session H| The perspectives presented by e-Platforms – Part I Session I| The perspectives presented by e-Platforms – Part II | | 17h30 – 18h00 | Coffee Break at Polivalente Room | | 18h00 – 19h00 | Plenary III – Auditorium FCC SMEs and e-Public Procurement – Gustavo Piga A new vision for e-Public Procurement in Europe – Luís Valadares Tavares |
8.SESSIONS INDEX
| Session A
Best Practices of e-Public Procurement in Different Countries – I | Pieter Breyne, PwC, European Commission, Kelly Liljemo, PwC, European Commission Johan Van Steelandt, Vlaamse Overheid, Belgium
Amílcar Arantes, University of Lisbon, Portugal, António Aguiar Costa, University of Lisbon, Portugal, Luís Valadares Tavares, University of Lisbon, Portugal | | Session B
Best Practices of e-Public Procurement in Different Countries – II | Matej Sandor, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic Klodiana Cankja, Public Procurement Agency, Albania Tato Urjumelashvili, Procurement Agency, Georgia, David Marghania, Procurement Agency, Georgia | | Session C
Services provided by the Major Sponsors | Services of e-public procurement provided by the Major Sponsors: InCI, Isabel da Rosa Vortal, João Pereira Nexus-IT, Manuel Caño Negometrix, Jan Siderius Pixelware, Safwan Nassri
| | Session D
Change Management for e-Public Procurement | Kostis Kaggelides, Gnomon Informatics, Greece M. Silvia Sabbatini, Phd, Attorney at law, Italy Kirsten Ferguson-Boucher, Aberystwyth University, UK, Sangeeta Khorana, Aberystwyth University, UK Enric Torregrosa, Everis, Spain | | Session E
New Approaches to e-Public Procurement | Bernardo Nicoletti, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Tunde Tátrai, Budapest Corvinus University of Economic, Hungary Alexandru V. Roman, Florida Atlantic University, USA, Cliff McCue, Florida Atlantic University, USA Carmen Ciciriello, OpenPEPPOL, European Commission | | Session F
The Process of e-Public Procurement: Key Tasks | Jan Siderius, Negometrix, The Netherlands, Stan Stilger, Manchester Business School, UK, Erik van Raaij, Erasmus University, The Netherlands Pedro Maia, e-WAY, Portugal, Luís Valadares Tavares, University of Lisbon, Portugal Ricardo Spínola, CISED Consultores, Portugal, José Antunes Ferreira, University of Lisbon, Portugal José Antunes Ferreira, University of Lisbon, Portugal, Ricardo Spínola, CISED Consultores, Portugal | | Session G
e-Public Procurement: Taxonomy and Networking | Christian Galinski, Infoterm, Austria Manuel Caño, Nexus-IT, Spain Luís Valadares Tavares, University of Lisbon, Portugal, Inês Lima, EDP, Portugal | | Session H
The perspectives presented by e-Platforms – Part I
| The perspectives presented by:
ePrior (European Commission), Pieter Breyne BIP Solutions, Scott Smith anoGov, Teresa Amorim Cloudia, Markku Jokiranta
| | Session I
The perspectives presented by e-Platforms – Part II
| The perspectives presented by: Gnomon Informatics, Kostis Kaggelides Vergabe24, Carsten Prokop I-Faber, Glemo Locci &Luca Bondini Nextenders, Gary Stevenson
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9. Submission of Abstracts
Abstracts (max 1 page) should be sent to
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until 30 December 2012 and authors will be notified about acceptance/ rejection until 30 January 2012. Full paper of accepted abstracts should be sent until 28 February 2013.
10. Registration
Registration should be completed through Registration Form - and payment by bank transfer to BPI BANK (IBAN - PT50 0010 0000 3765 6350 0016 0 | SWIFT/BIC CODE – BBPIPTPL). The registration costs are: 350€ - if payment until 30 January 2013
500€ - if later Authors of accepted abstract should register until 30 January 2013 to have their presentation included in the program. • Students can apply for a small number of scholarships to reduce registration cost to 50€.
11. Location
Barcelona, Spain.
This conference and exhibition takes place at Ramon Llull University, IQS - Via Augusta, 390 Barcelona (08017), Spain, using the new building of the Business Administration and Management School.
Site: www.iqs.edu/es/localizacion:148
Site: http://wwwa.url.edu/en/ These premises are served by:
a) FGC (Ferrov. Gen. de Catalunya)/Metro – Sarrià Station (700 meters away: 10 minutes walking);
The easiest connection from Plaza Catalunya is L6 (entrance weat side of Plaza Catalunya – near café Zurich/ Fnac, platform 1) and going to Sarrià Station. There are trains every 8 minutes, and the trip takes 8 minutes.
b) Tickets - You can buy a daily pass for all urban transportation systems (FGC, metro, trams and buses) for 7,25€ or a ticket for 10 trips in any of those systems (9,80€).
c) Airport
The best connection from terminal 1 to Plaza Catalunya is by bus (9,80€ return). The bus runs every 10 minutes and takes 40 minutes. From terminal 2 you better take FGC where you can also use T10.
Taxi costs between 30 and 40 euros. d) Barcelona offers a fantastic list of hotels with covering a wide range of prices and besides the usual booking sites you can browse the official site:
www.barcelonahotels.es
The nearest hotel from IQS (3 blocks away) is Hotel Eurostars Angli (4 stars).
Site: http://www.eurostarsangli.com/ES/hotel.html
Also, near Plaza Catalunya you find many 3 and 4 star hotels (price range between 90 and 130€ per night). e) Barcelona has an extensive agenda of cultural and artistic activities, as you can check through several sites such as:
www.barcelonaturisme.com
www.timeout.cat
Enjoy your stay!
12. Publication
A selected set of lectures and papers will be published after the conference as a book “on e- Public Procurement in EU: Challenges and Advances”.
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