QEI Public Procurement
Verify actors and authority. Preserve a transparent process.
A research application of QEI for procurement environments where the identity and authority of participants may need reliable verification while bid content, evaluation and award decisions remain separate from the identity layer.
Can the system prove who is authorised to act — without turning the identity layer into the system that evaluates or chooses the winning bid?
Verify what is needed.
- Identity of an authorised representative
- Authority to sign, submit or access a procurement step
- Integrity of the verification event and its time
Do not expand the purpose.
- Scoring or ranking bids inside QEI
- Revealing confidential bid information to the identity layer
- Using identity metadata to favour or disadvantage a bidder
From request to verifiable result.
Participant
A bidder or contracting-body representative initiates a protected action.
Identity & mandate
QEI verifies the person and the authority relevant to that action.
Signed event
A purpose-bound verification event is created with time and scope.
Procurement platform
The procurement system continues its own transparent procedure independently of QEI.
Technology without boundaries is not the QEI objective.
Separation from evaluation
The identity layer must remain separate from bid evaluation and award logic.
Equal process
The same verification requirements should apply consistently to comparable participants.
Audit trail
Verification, authority changes and critical access events should be independently reviewable.
No anti-corruption claim
QEI cannot by itself guarantee fair procurement or prevent corruption; it can only test whether stronger identity and event verification adds useful controls.
A research concept. Not an implemented system.
EU public-procurement rules emphasise transparency, equal treatment, open competition and sound procedure. QEI Public Procurement is therefore framed only as a possible verification layer around those processes — not as a substitute for procurement law, review bodies or tender evaluation.