Implementation of a public purchasing management software:
Benefits? Prerequisites? Costs?
Purchasing software, widely used and recognized for its effectiveness in private companies, is still underdeveloped in the public sector. In the scope of public procurement, purchasing Information Systems (IS) are still mainly associated with the dematerialization functionalities of the publication of contracts or the monitoring of their financial execution.
Specialized software vendors, however, propose other modules likely to improve the performance of public procurement: purchase/market planning, collaborative management of procedures with internal clients, team staffing, electronic catalogs, and e-procurement... Thus, a number of organizations and public authorities have set up or are planning to acquire a purchasing IS.
At the dawn of the entry into force of the dematerialization obligation of all public markets, we propose to answer the questions that the purchasing IS can raise:
- What are the most useful features for public actors?
- How can these tools enable the programming and monitoring of public contracts with the internal client departments?
- How do they manage the forecast workload related to different markets?
- What return on investment to expect?
The event will be held at the Brussels L42 business center in Brussels, in the heart of the European district. The debates were moderated by Arnaud SALOMON, Founding Partner of CKS.
