Source files of fsfe.org, pdfreaders.org, freeyourandroid.org, ilovefs.org, drm.info, and test.fsfe.org. Contribute: https://fsfe.org/contribute/web/
https://fsfe.org
You can not select more than 25 topics
Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long.
70 lines
2.1 KiB
70 lines
2.1 KiB
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> |
|
|
|
<html newsdate="2011-04-18"> |
|
<version>1</version> |
|
|
|
<head> |
|
<title>FSFE responds to EC consultation on procurement</title> |
|
</head> |
|
<body> |
|
|
|
<h1>FSFE responds to EC consultation on procurement </h1> |
|
|
|
<p>Free Software Foundation Europe has |
|
provided the European Commission with <a href="https://download.fsfe.org/policy/procurement/20110418.ProcurementConsultation.FSFE.response.pdf">input on modernising the |
|
way</a> in which public bodies buy software and related |
|
services.</p> |
|
|
|
<p>"Across Europe, the public sector has a huge role in the |
|
software market," says Karsten Gerloff, FSFE's President. "As |
|
the European Commission is revising the rules of procurement, |
|
we want to make sure that the new regulations and practices |
|
will be much fairer to Free Software than the current ones." |
|
</p> |
|
|
|
<p> |
|
In its response to the Commission's |
|
<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/publicprocurement/modernising_rules/consultations/index_en.htm">consultation</a>, |
|
FSFE emphasises the following points: |
|
<ul> |
|
|
|
<li>When a public body contracts out software development, it should |
|
have the right to use, study, share and improve the resulting |
|
software. This is best achieved through a Free Software |
|
license.</li> |
|
|
|
<li>Public bodies should require new solutions to be based |
|
on <a href="/freesoftware/standards/def.html">Open |
|
Standards</a>.</li> |
|
|
|
<li>Competitive bidding should be the rule. Negotiated procedures |
|
(direct negotiations between a public body and a seller) should |
|
remain limited to exceptional cases.</li> |
|
|
|
<li>The rules should make clear that major software upgrades should |
|
be treated in the same way as new purchases, and re-tendered in a |
|
competitive process.</li> |
|
|
|
<li>Public bodies should figure future exit costs into the total |
|
cost of any new solution.</li> |
|
</ul> |
|
|
|
|
|
</p> |
|
|
|
|
|
</body> |
|
<tags> |
|
<tag key="front-page"/> |
|
<tag key="european-commission"/> |
|
<tag key="openstandards"/> |
|
<tag key="procurement"/> |
|
<tag key="policy"/> |
|
</tags> |
|
</html> |
|
<!-- |
|
Local Variables: *** |
|
mode: xml *** |
|
End: *** |
|
--> |
|
|
|
|