Transcript Open standards in public procurement stimulating

Open standards in public procurement
stimulating innovative public procurement solutions
STEPPIN Dissemination Workshop
for Poland
Warsaw, Poland 20 June 2008
STEPPIN is supported by the European Commission under the
Europe INNOVA initiative
Agenda
10.00
Registration and coffee/tea
10.30
Official welcome by host
10.45
Introduction of the STEPPIN project
Is innovation good for you? Discussion
STEPPIN: an overarching perspective
Joep Frijdal, Director of Virage BV, Project Manager STEPPIN
11.450
Coffee/tea break
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Agenda (2)
12.15
Legal aspects of using standards in tender documents
Ramona Aposto/Jochem Berns, Corvers, Corvers Procurement Services,
Netherlands
12.45
Finding the right standards
Carsten Kudahl, Danish Standards, Denmark
13.15
Lunch
14.00
STEPPIN Handbook for public procurers and policy makers
Leendert van Bergeijk, Virage BV, Netherlands
14.30
Discussion
15.15
Closing remarks
End of session
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Workshop purpose
 Present & discuss the key findings of the STEPPIN
project
 Provide you with guidance and signposting for using
standards in public procurement tenders
 Capture your thoughts about how innovation can be
addressed by using standards within tender documents
 Transfer your ideas into tangible case studies to
disseminate good practice at the other dissemination
workshops, at the end of project Congress/Conference
and through the handbook
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Introducing the STEPPIN project
STandards in European Public Procurement
leading to INnovation
STEPPIN is supported by the European Commission under the
Europe INNOVA initiative
Innovation – we’ve come a long way
25 years old
CDC 844 Disk storage
100 MB disk pack
No standard interface
What was the original
cost?
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This is innovation!
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This year!!
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What is Innovation
 An innovation is the implementation of a new or significantly
improved product (good or service), or process, a new marketing
method, or a new organisational method in business practices,
workplace organisation or external relations (either new to the firm,
the market or the world).
 Innovation activities are all scientific, technological, organisational,
financial and commercial steps which actually, or are intended to,
lead to the implementation of innovations.
 A product innovation is the introduction of a good or service that is
new or significantly improved
 A process innovation is the implementation of a new or
significantly improved production or delivery method
Definition: OECD Eurostat Oslo Manual 2005
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Some observations
 The use of standards in public tenders can stimulate
innovation. There is theoretical and empirical evidence that
this is the case.
 But are public purchasers and their clients interested in
Innovation? Is it their business?
– Some purchasers seem to be “allergic" to the word “Innovation”. It
opens up a world full of risks that needs to be avoided.
– innovation is something for policymakers and subsidies. It is not an
issue that should be addressed in regular procurement
 However:
– quite often innovation is hidden somewhere in the tenders: It can be in
the user requirements, in the strategic choices made for a particular
type of approach or procedure.
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Hypothesis
 The main motivators for a public purchaser is to satisfy his
clients needs within the scope of the social responsibility
aspects of his role. He is responsible for:
– spending taxpayers money properly,
– Contribution of the goods and services he procures to the
society,
– child labour, sustainability and environmental issues, local or
regional economic welfare ……
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Questions
 Do these social responsibility aspects play a role when a
specific tender procedure or approach is chosen?
 Has innovation on the supplier side ever been an aspect of
the tenders the participants were involved in?
 Is the use of functional tendering growing because it gives the
opportunity to get the best products and services from the
market at reasonable prices, at the same time providing
opportunities to suppliers that haven't been able to do
business with the tendering organisation before?
 If the use of functional tendering is growing, how can it be
ensured that it results in the procurement of the required
products ?
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