Bretagne Region
The Bretagne Region relies on Silex
to improve the performance of public procurement
As an innovative region and a forerunner in digitization, the Bretagne Region launched a major project to digitalize it’s procurement departement in 2017. The procurement department chose Silex to help set up a digital supplier sourcing platform in order to bring together supply and demand and improve the visibility of the region’s purchases.
About the Bretagne Region
Each year, the Bretagne Region devotes between 250 and 300 million euros of its budget to public procurement and carries out an average of 800 contracts and concessions per year. Its purchases are divided into 9 different areas such as supplies, intellectual services, mobility & transport, or IT purchases.
Procurement in the region is decentralized and managed by the 22 operational departments, supported by a Procurement Policy Department and a Legal Studies and Advice Department.
Crucial issues
Transforming and digitizing public procurement to serve an ambitious and responsible procurement policy
The Bretagne Region is committed to making its Purchasing policy a real instrument of public policy in favour of employment, innovation and the economic development of the region. In 2018, it adopted its economically responsible purchasing plan, which aims to transform public procurement into a real lever of action for performance.
The digital transformation of Procurement then becomes the keystone of this ambitious plan. The Bretagne Region has chosen to organize its public procurement “as-a-platform” in order to meet the challenge of more efficient and more responsible procurement. It includes an online public procurement marketplace, an observatory of public procurement data to ensure transparency in public procurement, and a digital supplier sourcing platform.
The challenge
Digitize all early procurement processes
to create a public procurement platform
The results
Fully dematerialized procurement processes
to improve the performance of public procurement
The Bretagne Region performs very well in terms of sustainable procurement and economic performance.
Thanks to supplier sourcing, it manages to award 19% of its contracts to first-time asignee, but also to source from local companies. Thus, 75% of its contracts are awarded to companies in the region.
It is also spearheading highly innovative approaches to public procurement, as evidenced by the “observatoire des données de l’Achat public”, which is accessible to all and aims to promote transparency in public procurement.
