VII. Other aspects of participation and selection
VII.1 Reduction of candidates
Related information requirements
In restricted procedures, competitive procedures with negotiation, competitive dialogue procedures and innovation partnerships, contracting authorities may limit the number of candidates meeting the selection criteria that they will invite to tender or to conduct a dialogue [1].
To cover this possibility, the ESPD Regulation introduces a section named "Reduction of the number of qualified candidates" with one criterion that reads as follows:
"The economic operator declares that it meets the objective and non-discriminatory criteria or rules to be applied in order to limit the number of candidates in the following way:".
This ESPD-EDM specification provides a specific data structure that allows the contracting authority to specify these objective and non-discriminatory criteria and for the economic operator to declare that it meets them.
Differences between Basic and Extended
The data structure for this criterion is identical for both the Basic and the Extended models.
Data structure (Basic and Extended)
The figure below shows the data elements required to the economic operator for this criterion in the ESPD-Request:
XML example (ESPD-Request)
The XML snippet below shows how an instance of this criterion looks like in the ESPD-Request.
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This example is extensively commented in section Request/Response XML example (both the Request and the Response). Please consult this section for further details. |
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<cac:TenderingCriterion>
<cbc:ID schemeID="CriteriaTaxonomy" schemeAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW"
schemeVersionID="2.1.1">51c39ba9-0444-4967-afe9-36f753b30175</cbc:ID>
<cbc:CriterionTypeCode listID="CriteriaTypeCode" listAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW"
listVersionID="2.1.1"
>CRITERION.OTHER.EO_DATA.REDUCTION_OF_CANDIDATES</cbc:CriterionTypeCode>
<cbc:Name>Reduction of the number of qualified candidates</cbc:Name>
<cbc:Description>The economic operator declares that It meets the objective and non
discriminatory criteria or rules to be applied in order to limit the number
of candidates in the following way:</cbc:Description>
<cac:TenderingCriterionPropertyGroup>
<cbc:ID schemeID="CriteriaTaxonomy" schemeAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW"
schemeVersionID="2.1.1"
>ecc69670-f428-4446-908f-689568ca0d0d</cbc:ID>
<cbc:PropertyGroupTypeCode listID="PropertyGroupType"
listAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW" listVersionID="2.1.1"
>ON*</cbc:PropertyGroupTypeCode>
<cac:TenderingCriterionProperty>
<cbc:ID schemeID="CriteriaTaxonomy" schemeAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW"
schemeVersionID="2.1.1"
>087ecf5a-a0df-4a0b-a09f-7e6a8392bb35</cbc:ID>
<cbc:Description>Your answer?</cbc:Description>
<cbc:TypeCode listID="CriterionElementType"
listAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW" listVersionID="2.1.1"
>QUESTION</cbc:TypeCode>
<cbc:ValueDataTypeCode listID="ResponseDataType"
listAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW" listVersionID="2.1.1"
>INDICATOR</cbc:ValueDataTypeCode>
</cac:TenderingCriterionProperty>
<cac:SubsidiaryTenderingCriterionPropertyGroup>
<cbc:ID schemeID="CriteriaTaxonomy" schemeAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW"
schemeVersionID="2.1.1"
>f13754df-7e15-4155-aaa6-7ca6407baa47</cbc:ID>
<cbc:PropertyGroupTypeCode listID="PropertyGroupType"
listAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW" listVersionID="2.1.1"
>ONTRUE</cbc:PropertyGroupTypeCode>
<cac:TenderingCriterionProperty>
<cbc:ID schemeID="CriteriaTaxonomy"
schemeAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW" schemeVersionID="2.1.1"
>27a9f64c-16e0-4dd8-b35f-c4e50b8d2242</cbc:ID>
<cbc:Description>Please describe them</cbc:Description>
<cbc:TypeCode listID="CriterionElementType"
listAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW" listVersionID="2.1.1"
>QUESTION</cbc:TypeCode>
<cbc:ValueDataTypeCode listID="ResponseDataType"
listAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW" listVersionID="2.1.1"
>DESCRIPTION</cbc:ValueDataTypeCode>
</cac:TenderingCriterionProperty>
</cac:SubsidiaryTenderingCriterionPropertyGroup>
</cac:TenderingCriterionPropertyGroup>
<cac:TenderingCriterionPropertyGroup>
<cbc:ID schemeID="CriteriaTaxonomy" schemeAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW"
schemeVersionID="2.1.1"
>7458d42a-e581-4640-9283-34ceb3ad4345</cbc:ID>
<cbc:PropertyGroupTypeCode listID="PropertyGroupType"
listAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW" listVersionID="2.1.1"
>ON*</cbc:PropertyGroupTypeCode>
<cac:TenderingCriterionProperty>
<cbc:ID schemeID="CriteriaTaxonomy" schemeAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW"
schemeVersionID="2.1.1"
>97735936-388a-4a2e-8f18-be1e19e21607</cbc:ID>
<cbc:Description>Is this information available
electronically?</cbc:Description>
<cbc:TypeCode listID="CriterionElementType"
listAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW" listVersionID="2.1.1"
>QUESTION</cbc:TypeCode>
<cbc:ValueDataTypeCode listID="ResponseDataType"
listAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW" listVersionID="2.1.1"
>INDICATOR</cbc:ValueDataTypeCode>
</cac:TenderingCriterionProperty>
<cac:SubsidiaryTenderingCriterionPropertyGroup>
<cbc:ID schemeID="CriteriaTaxonomy" schemeAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW"
schemeVersionID="2.1.1"
>41dd2e9b-1bfd-44c7-93ee-56bd74a4334b</cbc:ID>
<cbc:PropertyGroupTypeCode listID="PropertyGroupType"
listAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW" listVersionID="2.1.1"
>ONTRUE</cbc:PropertyGroupTypeCode>
<cac:TenderingCriterionProperty>
<cbc:ID schemeID="CriteriaTaxonomy"
schemeAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW" schemeVersionID="2.1.1"
>97bba377-3a10-45dc-8b8d-dad5c23bbfee</cbc:ID>
<cbc:Description>Evidence supplied</cbc:Description>
<cbc:TypeCode listID="CriterionElementType"
listAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW" listVersionID="2.1.1"
>QUESTION</cbc:TypeCode>
<cbc:ValueDataTypeCode listID="ResponseDataType"
listAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW" listVersionID="2.1.1"
>EVIDENCE_IDENTIFIER</cbc:ValueDataTypeCode>
</cac:TenderingCriterionProperty>
</cac:SubsidiaryTenderingCriterionPropertyGroup>
</cac:TenderingCriterionPropertyGroup>
</cac:TenderingCriterion>
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