Mustangproject is a tool and library to create, read and validate electronic invoices. It supports Factur-X/ZUGFeRD, where a machine readable invoice is embedded as a XML file into a human readable PDF document, and XRechnung. It is available as a command line tool for Windows, Linux and Mac, as library for Java or .net, or as REST API server.

Procurement data has been identified as data with a high-reuse potential. Given the increasing importance of data standards for eProcurement, a number of initiatives driven by the public sector, the industry and academia have been kick-started in recent years. Some have grown organically, while others are the result of standardisation work. The vocabularies and the semantics that they are introducing, the phases of public procurement that they are covering, and the technologies that they are using all differ. These differences hamper data interoperability and thus its reuse by them or by the…

European Single Procurement Document (ESPD) is a self-declaration of the businesses' financial status, abilities and suitability for a public procurement procedure. It is available in all EU languages and used as a preliminary evidence of fulfilment of the conditions required in public procurement procedures across the EU. Thanks to the ESPD, the tenderers no longer have to provide full documentary evidence and different forms previously used in the EU procurement, which means a significant simplification of access to cross-border tendering opportunities. From October 2018 onwards the ESPD…

UBL, the Universal Business Language, is the product of an international effort to define a royalty-free library of standard electronic XML business documents such as purchase orders and invoices. Developed in an open and accountable OASIS Technical Committee with participation from a variety of industry data standards organizations, UBL is designed to plug directly into existing business, legal, auditing, and records management practices, eliminating the re-keying of data in existing fax- and paper-based supply chains and providing an entry point into electronic commerce for small and medium…

The goal of this project is to provide tools to facilitate the access to the e-PRIOR platform. These tools can also be used with Open e-PRIOR, the open source version of e-PRIOR hosted on OSOR. The IDABC e-Invoicing and e-Ordering project was started in the summer of 2007 by the Directorates-General for Internal Market (DG-MARKT) and for Informatics (DIGIT) of the European Commission. In brief, this project aims at a practical implementation of interoperable electronic services at a pan-European level, predominantly, within the post-awarding phase of Public Procurement. Open e-PRIOR is the…

Open e-PRIOR is an open-source e-procurement platform that allows practical implementation of interoperable electronic services within any public administration. It plays the role of intermediary between the back-office applications of the public administration and the Pan-European Public Procurement OnLine (PEPPOL) interoperability initiative. It has been designed to interoperate with a large number of applications of heterogeneous nature. The platform is connected to PEPPOL via its own Access Point, facilitating the cross-border exchange of e-procurement documents between, for example, a…

The administration in Denmark is a recognised leader (EC award for eGov readiness) and was demonstrated through its application of the eInvoice. The GS1 GLN, whilst being a small part of the total solution, was, nevertheless, an important tool in uniquely identification legal entities, physical locations and as an EDI routing key. Download case: http://gs1denmark.net.dynamicweb.dk/Default.aspx?ID=348

Within the eTEN Procure project, Atexo\'s Local Trust MPE e-procurement platform solution has been extended and translated in 5 languages. It allows a region to set-up a shared platform for tender publication, and to share/federate call for tenders from other compatible platforms, to allow trans-regional market development.

ELLECTRA-WeB is an Open-source Application Framework that enables the cost-effectively generation of electronic Public Procurement Solutions that adhere to IDABC guidelines

The objective of the learning demonstrators is to help software editors and contracting authorities to develop eProcurement systems in line with the EU legislative framework with a practical example. See also epractice.eu/cases/eprocdemos

Open Standards for ICT Procurement is a 24 month project of DG CONNECT of the European Commission, meant to facilitate and promote the use of standards when procuring ICT. This Community is addressed…