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Digital

This CoP is focused on identifying and understanding the existing business models for digital procurement.

About Digital

Objectives of the CoP Digital are: 

  1. Exchange experiences and best practices on digital procurement.
  2. Share market intelligence and engage in joint market dialogue.
  3. Jointly develop and implement innovative procurement approaches on digital-related procurement.
  4. Comparing and aligning different methods of procuring (e.g. dynamic purchasing systems and systems of open tenders).
  5. Reinforcing the joint purchase powers of public authorities, by stimulating joint procurement practices on digital services and bridging the gap between suppliers and procures. 6. Discussing new criteria and standards for tenders. 

Added value to procurement practices: 

  1. Aligned demands across public buyers, to support take-up by industry.
  2. Identification/better understanding of the existing business models for innovative digital solutions.
  3. Development and real-world testing of procurement documentation through pilots to test and review.