Title: Empirical evaluation of public e-procurement platforms in France

Authors: Said Assar, Imed Boughzala

Addresses: Information Systems Department, Institut National des Telecoms, 9, rue Ch. Fourier 91011 Evry France, GET/INT, France. ' Information Systems Department, Institut National des Telecoms, 9, rue Ch. Fourier 91011 Evry France, GET/INT, France

Abstract: Public e-procurement is the use of electronic means for publishing, processing, exchanging and storing all the information related to institutional purchases in public organisations. It requires complex technological tools, which must comply with legal and organisational constraints. In France, such tools have actually been deployed and used in all public institutions since 1 January 2005. The purpose of this paper is to describe briefly the functional and legal requirements for public e-procurement in France, and to present a general evaluation of eight deployed e-procurement platforms using an empirical methodology. The functionalities and general characteristics of the studied platforms are sketched and compared on the basis of commercial and technical data.

Keywords: e-government; public e-procurement; e-procurement platforms; France; electronic government; electronic procurement; online procurement; institutional purchasing; public sector; functional requirements; legal requirements.

DOI: 10.1504/IJVCM.2008.016120

International Journal of Value Chain Management, 2008 Vol.2 No.1, pp.90 - 108

Published online: 06 Dec 2007 *

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