CWA 17028-106:2016

Business Interoperability Interfaces for Public Procurement in Europe - E-Catalogue - Part 106: Profile BII44 Catalogue Only Without Response CWA 17028-106:2016

Scope

1.1 Introduction
This BII profile 44 Catalogue only without response describes electronic messages supporting the business processes for exchanging electronic catalogues. 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.
The key aspects covered by this profile are:
- The submitting of a catalogue as part of a catalogue exchange process in the post-award area.
- The Catalogue Receiver does not have to send a response message, whether the catalogue was accepted or rejected.

1.2 Goals
The main business benefits to be gained by implementing this profile are:
ID Description
G01-001 On the Customer's side, allowing a quick and easy comparison of different items, and between different Suppliers' catalogue items (when implemented with several Suppliers).
G01-002 Simple storage and automated maintenance of item information on the Customer's side.
G01-003 Correct identification and pricing of items in the ordering process (reduced errors).
G01-004 Enable Suppliers to provide tailored item and price information.

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, where the selling side is the source of the catalogue and the buying side the receiver. In this profile the selling side can be any Economic Operator and the buying side any Contracting Authority. The intended scope for this profile includes B2G and B2B 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 catalogues well as updating an existing catalogue. In case of updating, the catalogue or individual catalogue lines are updated as a whole.
In this profile, a catalogue contains the products of one supplier only.