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The Development of Specifications for eProcurement Messages for Use in the UK Public Sector

Overview This paper describes the development of the functional specification for messages needed to support e-procurement interoperability across the UK public sector. The scope of the project is the procurement cycle from first enquiry to payment, between government buyers and third party suppliers. The methodology is based on the Office of the e-Envoy's e-service development framework, using a single UML model.

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Publisher	deepX	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	April 2003	Downloads	2
Format	White Papers
Topics	UML, Procurement and Sourcing

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