CWA 16073-1:2010

The objective of Workgroup 1 of the BII workshop is to: provide specification of message content and business processes that facilitates business interoperability interfaces related to pan-European electronic transactions in public procurement. To facilitate implementation of electronic commerce in a standardized way, thereby enabling the development of standardized software solutions as well as efficient connections between trading partners without case-by-case specification of the data interchange, the workshop agreed to document the required business interoperability interfaces as profile descriptions. The end goal is to reduce the cost of implementing electronic commerce to a level that is economical for small and medium size companies and institutions.