CWA 17027-104:2016

Business Interoperability Interfaces for Public Procurement in Europe - E-Tendering - Part 104: Profile BII34 Advanced Call for Tenders with Pre-award Catalogue Request CWA 17027-104:2016

General information

99.60 Withdrawal effective   Jun 28, 2023

CEN

CEN/WS BII3 Business Interoperability Interfaces on public procurement in Europe phase 3

CEN/CENELEC Workshop Agreement

03.100.10   Purchasing. Procurement. Logistics | 35.240.20   IT applications in office work | 35.240.63   IT applications in trade

Scope

1.1 Introduction
Profile BII34 Advanced Call for Tenders with pre-award Catalogue request describes electronic messaging support for the business process of inviting all economic operators in the market to submit a tender for delivering products, services or works as part of the execution of the pre-award phase in a procurement process.
The key aspects covered by this profile are:
- The contracting body has decided to invite all economic operators to participate in a tendering procedure.
- The contracting body may distribute the call for tenders document to a wide audience.
- The call for tenders document includes a specification of the catalogue that is to be submitted with the tender.
- The economic operator decides whether he participates in the tendering process, but no communication needs to be sent back to the contracting body if he decides not to.
In this profile BII34 Advanced Call for Tenders with pre-award Catalogue request much information about the call for tenders and the catalogue specification is structured. In profile BII47 Call for Tenders, most information is defined in unstructured attachments (incl. the catalogue request).
To invite (pre-)selected economic operators to participate in a tendering procedure, profile BII40 Advanced Invitation to Tender with pre-award Catalogue request is used instead of this profile.
If the call for tenders does not include a request to submit a pre-award catalogue, profile BII22 Advanced Call for Tenders is used instead of this profile.
This profile is identified in the transactions by the ProfileID urn:www.cenbii.eu:profile:bii34:ver3.0
1.2 Goals
The main business benefits to be gained by implementing this profile are: (see table in document).
1.3 Business environment
1.3.1 Introduction
The intended scope for this profile includes public procurement, but the profile may also be used in Business to Business (B2B) relations.
This profile is intended to support transmission of electronic documents for processing in (semi-)automated processes. The legal requirements that were taken into account are requirements from European legislation, in particular the EU directives, mentioned in section 5 of this profile.
The transactions, specified in this profile are intended to be exchanged between the tendering systems of economic operators and contracting bodies. This means that it is expected that the parties have connected their systems to the internet, and that they have middleware in place to enable them to send and receive the transactions in a secure way, using an agreed syntax.
The content model of the transactions can also be used in procurement platforms or portals, so that these platforms as well as procurement systems of economic operators and contracting bodies are based on the same information and process models, which makes them more interoperable. Even if platforms are not technically interoperable, the content model facilitates understanding the tendering documents and to participate in the tendering process.
1.3.2 Tendering procedures
Individual pre-award processes can be put in place using different procedures, depending on the value and the type of the contract to be awarded, on the legal nature of the contracting body and on specific member state national legislation (Directive 2014/24/EU art. 26). In open procedures, any economic operator can access the tender documents (including the call for tenders) and submit a tender before the time expires, without subscribing for interest and without any previous assessment of their capabilities. In restricted and negotiated procedures and in a competitive dialogue the interested economic operators must submit a request to participate in order to be invited in the tendering process by the contracting body. When the contracting body has published a notice, the interested economic operators may subscribe to obtain tendering information using profile BII46. Negotiated procedures require sending the invitation

Life cycle

NOW

WITHDRAWN
CWA 17027-104:2016
99.60 Withdrawal effective
Jun 28, 2023