An Architect's Guide to Public Procurement

14.Planning for the future

This chapter explores a number of the challenges ahead in this constantly changing public procurement environment. Each has the potential to significantly alter procurement practice. There are, however, very substantial uncertainties surrounding these developments.

e-Procurement

For e-procurement to be meaningful, not only will all tenders need to be submitted electronically but they will have to be as broad in application as the Commission’s definition of ‘the use of electronic communications and transaction processing by government institutions and other public sector organisations when buying supplies and services or tendering public works’.¹ It has the potential to extend across the entire procurement lifecycle ...