What is a procurement platform? The latest Vortal Business helps you realize: the Portuguese software house has just signed a contract to provide technology for the Wiener Zeitung Digitale Publikationen, an entity that can be considered responsible for publishing the counterpart of the Journal of Austrian Republic, and will provide the e-procurement platform to about 6000 public bodies to launch tenders for the purchase of products or services.
to date, Vortal has focused on expansion abroad by opening branches. With the contract with the Wiener Zeitung Digitale Publikationen, the Portuguese company debuts in providing technologies to foreign entities wishing to organize the respective competitions without resorting to intermediaries.
“The contract with the Austrian entity is very important to us. It is the first reference we have created in the German-speaking markets, “explains Rui Dias Ferreira, leader and founder of Vortal without advance which the amount involved in the contract.
Vortal has been exploring the German, Austrian and Swiss from two offices: one in Frankfurt and one in Berlin. Rui Dias Ferreira admits that Vortal may have to make some adjustments, but continues to expect to achieve in the German-speaking markets the results has begun to consolidate elsewhere. “Last year we grew 60% to 70% in Spain. Currently, we are leaders in the Spanish market. We are preparing the first congress on e-procurement platforms that will take place in Valencia. “
The Vortal is also present in Colombia and the Dominican Republic. Mexico is another country in Latin America that has been worked by the Lisbon company, which claims leadership in the segment of e-procurement platforms in Portugal. Vortal reveals some numbers that help describe the evolution of the business: the first quarter of 2016, the Vortal platform supported the holding of 12,362 procedures and attracting more than 37,000 proposals. In 2015, Vortal earned EUR 9.2 million.
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