ELECTRONIC PUBLIC PROCUREMENT OF CONSTRUCTION AND PUBLIC WORKS TOWARDS A NEW REALITY
This paper will describe a new approach towards electronic public procurement of construction and public Works. The paper will analyse how the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are changing the processes within the Building and Construction sector, namely the Building Information Modeling (BIM) approach combined with the Model Driven Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud Computing. The combination of these technological approaches enable a full dematerialization of the whole building or public Works life cycle and the possibility of public procurement become more efficient and increase market competitiveness.