Open Digital Consulting

This response addresses the revision of EU public procurement directives (2014/24/EU and 2014/25/EU) based on 15 years of research and advisory work across UK and EU public sector digital procurement. The evidence demonstrates that current procurement structures create barriers to achieving best value and strategic objectives, not through explicit prohibition but through frameworks that neither prohibit nor…

European open digital industry development requires enabling businesses and open digital ecosystems to interface effectively with procurement and funding mechanisms. This response proposes custodian organisations managing dual-fund mechanisms, four-way value chain separation in procurement, and immediate policy declarations making open source the default.

The Digital Fitness Check cannot assess cumulative impact on competitiveness without examining the European open source professional services sector - a sector currently invisible in EU classification systems. This response connects the newly established Digital Commons EDIC with the fitness check's objectives, arguing that procurement directives must be included in scope, compliance burden must be assessed against…

Please find attached my response focussed on practical implementation pathways for eInvoicing harmonisation and arguing that standards definition alone is insufficient without implementation-level support including Open Source implemntation and funding support recommendation.