Press Release: Commission moves to support take-up of e-procurement

E-procurement, the use of electronic communications and transaction processing by governments and other public sector organisations when buying supplies and services or tendering public works, can deliver significant savings to European taxpayers. The European Commission is therefore announcing a series of measures to boost the take-up of e-procurement in the EU.

Firstly, the Commission is issuing a call for applications for participation in a new, informal expert group on e-tendering. Secondly, it is starting to monitor the use of e-procurement across Member States, in order to promote best practices. Thirdly, it is publishing the responses to the e-procurement Green Paper which reveal considerable support for making the use of e-procurement compulsory in the EU.

The aim of these measures is to help Member States to accelerate the switchover to e-procurement, and to enable suppliers to take part in online procurement procedures across the single market.