CWA 17028-104:2016

Business Interoperability Interfaces for Public Procurement in Europe - E-Catalogue - Part 104 : Profile BII17 Multi-party Catalogue CWA 17028-104:2016

Scope

1.1 Introduction
A catalogue contains specifications of products (goods and services) with their pricing. A catalogue is used to serve as a basis for ordering. This profile describes the process for sending the catalogue from a Supplier to a Customer, and for confirming the acceptance or rejection by the Customer.
In this document the business requirements are identified, explained and justified.

1.2 Goals
The main business benefits to be gained by implementing this profile are:
ID Description
G17-001 Contracting authority can automatically send a request for a new catalogue to the central catalogue service manager
G17-002 Accuracy of information received
G17-003 Wider product range potentially available to Contracting authorities.
G17-004 Catalogue Provider can automatically confirm the acceptance of the catalogue (and later on using the Catalogue Profiles processes and business transactions can send a structured catalogue)
G17-005 Accuracy of information sent to Contracting Authority
G17-006 Wider product range that Economic operators can offer (for Dynamic Purchasing Systems)

1.3 Business environment
This profile is intended to support the synchronization of catalogues between the selling and the buying side in a business relationship, whereas the selling side is the source of the catalogues and the buying side the receiver of the EPC. In this profile the selling side can be any Economic Operator and the buying side any Contracting Authority. So intended scope for this profile includes are B2G relationships.
The transactions, specified in this profile are intended to be exchanged between the procurement systems of contracting authorities and systems for catalogue management of economic operators. 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.
In this profile, synchronization of catalogues includes the submission of a new catalogue as well as updating an existing catalogue. In case of updating, the catalogue is updated as whole. For updating parts of the catalogue the profile Catalogue Update with its corresponding transaction can be used. To suspend completely the usage of a catalogue the profile Catalogue Deletion can be used.
In this profile, catalogue contains the products and services of different suppliers. For a catalogue of only one supplier see the profile Catalogue Only.