EUROPEAN VORTAL ACADEMY- eVA- is an interdisciplinary program introduced to train executives and experts eProcurement, through an integrated and systemic understanding of major issues of e-public procurement avoiding the usual temptation to solely identify public procurement with public law.
EUROPEAN VORTAL ACADEMY has ambitious objectives embracing executives and experts of EU member States who are required to apply e-public procurement procedures following Directives 2004/17/CE and 2004/18/CE.
These objectives are to consider key European policies related to e-procurement, namely on support to SMEs, on development of E-Government and public markets as well as important projects such as PEPPOL (Pan-European Public Procurement Online). It should be noted that members of eVA have been active contributors to PEPPOL since its inception.
This program includes high level seminars for CEO's, specialized courses on public acquisitions of goods, services and works, e-business, multi-criteria models for tender evaluation, negotiation techniques, public auctions and new concepts such as framework agreements or dynamic acquisition systems.
The company was founded in 2000 with a mission “to help their clients buying better and selling more", to achieve superior performance” in a high performance collaborative cloud-based solution.
VORTAL supports its customers through its offices in Portugal, Spain, UK and the Czech Republic , with a team of highly-motivated people from 7 nationalities. Business foundation has been built on becoming the leader in Portugal, both in the Private and Public markets regarding electronic procurement.
Since 2010, VORTAL has been consecutively distinguished as one of "100 best companies to work in Portugal", in a survey carried out by “Accenture" and "Exame" magazine.
In 2011, the Association of Electronic Commerce and Interactive Advertising distinguished VORTAL as the "Best B2B e-commerce website".
At an International level, VORTAL was included in the Deloitte “Technology fast growing 500 EMEA ranking” and recognized by Gartner regarding expertise and capabilities, namely in the publications “Strategies for Public-Sector Investment in Procurement Applications" and "Cool Vendors in Procurement Applications".
