The Workshop has identified different categories of Stakeholders.
A. The Strategic Players
A.1. The EU commission management, EU Bodies and EU initiatives
- DG MARKT
- DG INFSO
- OJEU
- ISA Programme
A.2. The eProcurement standards decision makers/influencers:
- Ministries of Finance (State Treasury department) and Public Procurement Authorities
- ICT Agencies and Innovation Agencies/Ministries
- Universities/Academia
- Existing eProcurement Communities
B. The Users
B.1. The units of Public Administrations dealing with eProcurement:
- Central Purchasing bodies
- National eProcurement platform providers
- Purchasing departments in Ministries, regions, municipalities and publicly owned companies
- Accounting departments (dealing with the processing of invoices)
- e-Centers supporting TED
B.2. Suppliers and their umbrella organizations
- Business Europe
- Eurochambers
- UEAPME
- National Suppliers Associations (Large and SME)
B.3. EU funded projects
- PEPPOL project
- ePrior Project
- eCertis
- SPOCS Project
C. The ICT Solutions Providers
C.1. Software vendors (ERP, Middleware, etc.)
- Multinational vendors (such as IBM, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft)
- National / Local vendors
C.2. Software application Service providers
- VANs
- eProcurement SAS
- Cloud
C.3. Software vendors associations
- International level
- National level
D. Standardization bodies
D.1. European Initiatives and workshops
- Other CEN WSs/committees working on related topics:
- CEN WS/eInv 3
- WS/eCAT
- CEN WS/eBES
- The MUG project
- ETSI
- UN/CEFACT
- IEC TC75 and its European stakeholders
D.2. International Standardization bodies
- OASIS/UBL
- ISO
D.3. National Standardization bodies
- NEN (Netherlands)
- UNI and Uninfo (Italy)
- DIN (Germany)
- Afnor (France)
- (+ other bodes in other countries)