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EU - SIEMENS - Preliminary Study on the electronic provision of certificates and attestations usually required in public procurement procedures - National reportsThe Preliminary Study on the electronic provision of certificates and attestations in public procurement procedures aims to examine how different European countries (EU, candidate countries and EEA) currently manage the use of certificates and attestations in procurement procedures, particularly in a eProcurement context. The goal of the study is to identify if and how electronic certificates and attestations are currently issued, accepted and validated in public procurement procedures across these countries, and if and how their eProcurement systems could be modified or amended to support non-national electronic certificates and attestations, thus facilitating cross border economic activities in these countries and contributing to the creation of an internal market
for electronic procurements. The project should conclude with several different proposals how to build interoperability.
EU - SIEMENS - Preliminary Study on the electronic provision of certificates and attestations usually required in public procurement proceduresIn this study, the “Preliminary Study on the electronic provision of certificates and attestations in public procurement procedures”, we have examined how 32 different European countries Member States, Candidate Countries and EEA countries) currently manage the use of attestations in procurement procedures, particularly in an eProcurement context. The goal of the study was to identify if and how electronic attestations are currently issued in each of these countries, whether they can be accepted and validated in public procurement procedures across these countries, and if and how their eProcurement systems could be modified or amended to support foreign electronic attestations, thus facilitating cross border economic activities in these countries and contributing to the creation of an internal market for electronic procurements. As a part of this study, a series of scenarios were created that could be used to build interoperability between existing e-attestation systems, i.e. to ensure that electronic attestations from a tenderer established in one country could be presented to a contracting authority in a different country. These scenarios were then comparatively assessed in order to determine the most efficient or promising ones, and roadmaps were subsequently drafted to implement the most favoured interoperability scenarios. Finally, the study presented a number of recommendations for future actions to gradually improve the availability and usability of electronic attestations in public procurement procedures. In this executive summary, a brief overview will be provided of the main findings of the study