Stakeholders

The Workshop has identified different categories of Stakeholders.

A. The Strategic Players

A.1. The EU commission management, EU Bodies and EU initiatives

DG MARKT
DG INFSO
OJEU
ISA Programme

A.2. The eProcurement standards decision makers/influencers:

Ministries of Finance (State Treasury department) and Public Procurement Authorities
ICT Agencies and Innovation Agencies/Ministries
Universities/Academia
Existing eProcurement Communities

B. The Users

B.1. The units of Public Administrations dealing with eProcurement:

Central Purchasing bodies
National eProcurement platform providers
Purchasing departments in Ministries, regions, municipalities and publicly owned companies
Accounting departments (dealing with the processing of invoices)
e-Centers supporting TED

B.2. Suppliers and their umbrella organizations

Business Europe
Eurochambers
UEAPME
National Suppliers Associations (Large and SMEs)

B.3. EU funded projects

eSENS project
ePrior project
eCertis
SPOCS project

C. The ICT Solutions Providers

C.1. Software vendors (ERP, middleware, etc.)

Multinational vendors (such as IBM, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft)
National / Local vendors

C.2. Software application Service providers

VANs
eProcurement SAS
Cloud

C.3. Software vendor associations

International level
National level

D. Standardization bodies

D.1. European Initiatives and workshops

Other CEN WSs/committees working on related topics:
CEN WS/eInv 3
WS/eCAT
CEN WS/eBES
The MUG project
ETSI
UN/CEFACT
IEC TC75 and its European stakeholders

D.2. International Standardization bodies

OASIS/UBL
ISO

D.3. National Standardization bodies

NEN (Netherlands)
UNI and Uninfo (Italy)
DIN (Germany)
Afnor (France)
other bodies in other countries