Electronic public procurement is presented as a strategy that facilitates the attainment of benefits for Basque Companies, Administration, Officials and society, within the 2004-2006 Strategic Plan for Online Administration. The Basque Government's model for Electronic Public Procurement is defined as a secure but accessible, rigorous but simple, available and evident system.

A large investment in promotion and training by the Basque Government to provide competitive advantages for Basque Companies.

General objectives:

• Increase efficiency and reduce administration costs.
• Provide a better service to companies.
• Achieve a greater degree of homogeneity in procurement process criteria.
• Promote competition through open and efficient communication.
• Facilitate awareness amongst all companies of business opportunities with the Basque Administration.
• Promote electronic purchasing and the Recognised Electronic Signature.
  

Benefits generated for companies:

• New unique, simple and comfortable communication channel to access all business opportunities with the General Administration of the Autonomous Basque Community.
• Reduces barriers to access for SMB's when dealing with the Public Administration. 
• Visibility and the digitization of the entire procurement cycle.
• Opportunity to try out and become familiar with a mechanism that will be the sole means of accessing Public Administration procurement in future.
  

In addition, electronic tendering allows companies to:

• Save time in bid preparation.
• Reduce processing times.
• Improve their knowledge of the market.
• Eliminate postage costs.
• Avoid travel.
• Eliminate repetitive processes.

Guarantees for companies:

• Access to data and information restricted to authorized personnel. 
• Bidder confidentiality.
• Protection of IT processes from unauthorised modification.
• Total bid confidentiality.
• Security and guaranteed bid receipt. 
• Access to economic and technical bids only on the day and time foreseen for the public opening of proposals.
• Virtual access to public bid openings for those interested in the procedure.