Today the European Defence Agency launched the operational phase of the EU Third Party Logistic Support Platform.
The EU TPLS Platform will act as a common interactive website-based instrument for European industries having expertise in the field of mission and operations-related TPLS. Companies will have the opportunity to advertise their services in a very detailed and user-friendly way to a specialised community of customers. In turn, these customers, Contracting Authorities from all over Europe, will be provided tools to directly interact with particular service providers.
In addition to that, the Platform will facilitate the identification of new business for specialised service providers, by comprising a publicly accessible area for Contracting Authorities to advertise their public tenders (including ongoing and completed contracts).
In doing so, the TPLS Platform will bring together demand and offer in a very specific area of the European Defence Equipment Market and will at the same time introduce more transparency and competition for the benefit of both customers and suppliers.
The TPLS Platform was established after an EDA Steering Board decision of 2 April 2009. An initial registration period for Economic Operators started soon after, as a preparation to today’s operational and official launch of the new portal.
Further information: http://www.eda.europa.eu/tpls.