Thursday 26th November, 2015

The Swedish National Financial Management Authority (ESV) has announced the rollout of e-procurement for central government agencies.

Peter Noren, Head of Unit Implementation and Sourcing of Enterprise Applications, ESV said, "The mayor change is a requirement that by November 2018 all government agencies shall be able to use the PEPPOL network for their ordering and invoicing processes."

The regulation issued by ESV states that central government agencies will have the capability to use the PEPPOL network and be registered as recipients for different PEPPOL Business Interoperability Specifications (BIS) messages in a Service Metadata Publisher (SMP).

This is an important step to increase adoption of PEPPOL in Sweden and it will facilitate on-boarding of suppliers to government.

The e-procurement platforms offered by Visma and CGI based on ESV’s current framework agreements already include this functionality and so will the next generation of framework agreements for e-procurement platforms.