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eProcurement

eProcurement is the ability to trade electronically using e-mail and web technology. It removes paper processes and reduces costs for both buyer and supplier, making trading simpler and more cost effective. eProcurement includes:

• Complete end to end, or procure to pay electronic procurement systems, that are integrated with back office financial systems. This means that the whole procurement process from requisitioning, ordering, acknowledgement, receipting, invoicing to paying happens electronically
• eTendering systems used to seek tenders or quotations.
• eMarketplaces web-based systems that enable ordering from approved catalogues
• eAuctions, or more correctly reverse eAuctions which allow suppliers bidding for goods or services to take place "real time" on the Internet

The Council along with other Local Authorities has targets to meet and need suppliers to become e-enabled. Please keep looking at this information as it will be regularly updated.

The National Procurement Strategy for Local Government, which was published in 2003, has the following eProcurement targets:

By December 2005

• Every council should have implemented an appropriate eProcurement solution as part of its e-Government programme.
• For low value purchases, every council should be making appropriate use of a procurement card, or a suitable electronic alternative.

By 2006

• Every Council should be using an appropriate e-Marketplace.