OPEN STANDARDS FOR ICT PROCUREMENT: SAVING WHILE REDUCING ICT LOCK-INBrussels | June 12th, 2015 | 09.00 a.m. CET Avenue de Beaulieu, 25
The ScenarioUnder Digital Agenda, the European Commission commits itself through Action 23 to provide guidance on the link between ICT Standardisation and Public Procurement in order to help public authorities use standards to promote efficiency and reduce lock-in.
As a matter of fact, using ICT open standards results in: - Higher savings when procuring ICT - An increased level of competition among suppliers - Being compliant with EU Public Procurement directives
The WorkshopIf you are involved somehow in ICT procurement and want to know how other organizations similar to yours are successfully dealing with ICT "lock-in", you are warmly invited to attend the “Open Standards for ICT Procurement: Saving while reducing ICT lock-in” workshop, taking place in Brussels - at DG CONNECT - on June 12th, 2015.
The Workshop will be a great opportunity to meet MSP members, procurement managers, policymakers and ICT suppliers to discuss how to effectively reduce lock-in by using Open Standards.
The main goals of the event are:
- Discuss ways in which Pre-Commercial Procurement can be used as a tool to steer the development of solutions towards concrete public sector needs;
- Share some good and bad practice examples about Innovation Procurement of ICT within EU Public Administrations;
- Gather new ideas to revamp the EC policy for the procurement of ICT products and services on the base of standards
Best practice examples have been carefully selected to match the needs and wants of all potential participants. Have a look at the agenda! In addition, we planned various networking opportunities to allow you to share your opinion with a number of top-tier experts.
Preliminary Agenda *
Detailed Agenda
Workshop Materials
- Aet Rahe: Overview of Estonian ICT policy coordination, how to keep costs under control and still achieve the results?
- Tomas Gustavsson: A Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) dependent on Open Standards
- Susanne Wigard: Introduction and update of the Common Assessment Method for Standards and Specifications (CAMSS) action to alleviate ICT lock-in
- Jim Zemlin: Open Source and Open Standards: Harmonizing Sometimes Conflicting Collaboration Models to Prevent Lock-in
- Giovanna Galasso: Preliminary results from the ICT Procurement Survey
- Bob Jones: Procurement Innovation for Cloud Services in Europe - PICSE
Workshop Materials
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Comments
Dear Sirs/Madams,
I have registered to this event tomorrow unfortunately I must attend another event in the commission as well so I will not be able to join this time.
Thank you so much and I wish you a lovely and successful event tomorrow!
Thank you for your understanding
Best regards
Eva Christina Andersson