Germany's software applications for procurement will gradually be made available as open source.
"The software is paid for by the citizens, and it is therefore reasonable to make the source code publicly available", says Rolf Kewitz, Project Leader of eTendering, at the Procurement Office of the Federal Ministry of the Interior (Beschaffungsamt des Bundesministeriums des Innern - BeschA, in German). Some parts of the tools will have to be rewritten to remove proprietary dependencies.