Release Notes

v2.1.1 (December 2019)

The ESPD EDM version 2.1.1 focuses on correcting minor errors and implementing the backwards-compatible-changes suggested by Member States and other Stakeholders in the ESPD-EDM in the GitHub issues workspace. The list below details exhaustively every change introduced since the publication of the previous release (2.1.0) of the ESPD-EDM:

Online documentation

As a part of the improvements introduced by this v2.1.1, the ESPD-EDM Wiki has been refactored in order to offer users a Single Information Point, where it is possible to easly acess to all its resources: documentation, tools, assets, etc.

One of the major novelties in the new v2.1.1 is the nomenclature change to refer the two different models: Regulated and Self-Contained, that from now on will be refered as Basic and Extended, respectively.

TOOP Requirements in ESPD-EDM (UBL2.2) Schema

A mapping for TOOP requirements to UBL2.2 Schema (which is the one used by ESPD-EDM) has been made, and it has been proved that they are fully mappable. For more information, please refer to the dedicated section of the online documentation.

You can also access to issue #254, where the topic was discussed.

Code Lists

  • New Criteria OTHER-EO-SME, DEFENCE-SELECTION-OTHER and UTILITIES-SELECTION-OTHER codes have been added to Criteria Taxonomy Code List. ESPD-CodeLists-V2.1.1.xlsx.

  • New code QUAL_IDENTIFIER has been added to ResponseDataType Code List, to properly identify the educational qualifications requested in Criterion 47, SC.ABILITIES.3 (Education).

  • Two new codes to identify the "new" Basic and Extended models have been added to QualificationApplicationType Code List.

  • Missing Canonical Version URI and Location URI have been added to WeightingType Code List.

The code lists can be downloaded as an MS-Excel or as an ODS file. The list of criteria has been produced based on the CriteriaTaxonomy spread-sheets (both Basic and Extended).

The complete set of code lists has been generated as Genericode 1.0 XML files, which can be accessed and downloaded from the GitHub repository GC folder.

Business Rules

  • National grounds are no longer mandatory.

ESPD Criteria Taxonomy

  • The first question subgroup of Criterion #61: NOT_RELIED_ON_ENTITITES of Basic model has been rolled-up to the its state on previous v1.0.2 to ensure maximum compatibility between versions. I.e. "Name of entity", "ID of the entity" and "Activity of the entity" questions have been removed.

The question subgroup of Extended model maintaines the structure introduced in v2.0.2.

  • New Criterion OTHER-EO-SME has been added to Extended model , as the UBL code "industry classification" used until now does not allow to give the yes/no answer included in the Directives.

  • The type of "Number of fiscal years" requirement of Criterion #30: SC-General_Average_Turnover of Extended model has been changed from start date/end date to QUANTITY_INTEGER.

  • New Criteria DEFENCE-SELECTION-OTHER and UTILITIES-SELECTION-OTHER have been created for the specific needs of procedures regulated by Directives 2009/81/EC and 2004/17/EC, respectively.

  • In the selection Criterion #37: SC-REFERENCES The cardinality of the first QUESTION, "Recipient name" of QUESTION_SUBGROUP 6afa7569-e4c4-4538-be89-84a82b2a301b has been changed to 0..1 .

UUIDs

  • New UUIDs have been added for the newly created Criteria, groups and sub-groups where needed. For a comprehensive list of the new UUIDs and their creation reason, please refer to the following document.

v2.1.0 (January 2019)

The ESPD EDM version 2.1.0 focuses on the stabilisation of the previous specification, notably of the SELF-CONTAINED features. No changes have been introduced in the UBL-2.2 XSD schemas beyond the fact that the namespace of the XSD Schema is now the final one (as published by the OASIS link:UBL-2.2 TC in July 2018). The list below details exhaustively every change introduced since the publication of the previous release (2.1.0) of the ESPD-EDM:

Online documentation

The following sections are new, in the XML Implementation Guide v2.1.0.

  • IV.8 GUI control elements: About the sets of data elements (codes acting as ''processing instructions'') that help software applications control how to show the Graphic User Interfaces (GUI). The section covers three subjects:

  • VI.1 Alpha criterion: This section describes how the economic operator (EO) has the possibility, in the REGULATED ESPD-Response document, of specifying that it meets all the selection criteria (thus avoiding the specification of each one of the selection criteria specified in the ESPD-Request. This is a special feature only possible in the REGULATED ESPD;

  • Some selection criteria have been split in multiples sub-sections, e.g. "Abilities"; this is also explained with more detail below;

  • VII. Other aspects of participation and selection: 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. To cover this possibility, the ESPD Regulation introduces a section named "Reduction of the number of qualified candidates" that is not a true selection criterion. Hence this denomination of "participation criterion".

  • IX Putting pieces together: The ESPD-EDM specification, notably regarding the SELF-CONTAINED ESPD, defines different complex sets of data that are scattered in distant locations of the corresponding XML instance. Consequently, implementors of software dealing with the ESPD XML instances may have a hard time to identify what needs to go in the XML instance and where. This is the case of, specifically, the data related to topics dealing with special situations like lots, weights and uuids. To help implementors understand these topics and how to tackle them, the sub-section provides abundant explanations and examples.

  • Interoperability testbed: A new section has been added to provide the latest URL to access the interoperability testbed and validate the ESPD document instances at testing and integration time.

  • Other new resources:

    • Examples related to the proposal on how to decouple the GUI from the data structures in future versions of the ESPD-EDM;

    • Examples on how to assign constant UUIDs to the Properties of a Criterion, instead of using dynamically generated UUIDs (a method that is currently under discussion: see the Issue #226);

    • Examples provided by the ESPDint solution and other manually adapted for the illustration of Lots, Weights and References.

UBL-2.2 Schemas

  • The default namespaces for the two UBL-2.2 maindoc used in ESPD are now:

    • urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:QualificationApplicationRequest-2

    • urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:QualificationApplicationResponse-2

    • The rest of all the XSD Schemas namespaces used in UBL-2.2 start now with urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:, too

    • See also how the section II.3 UBL-2.2 Documents and libraries in the online documentation has been adapted

Code Lists

  • The criteria taxonomy has been added as a code list to the spread-sheet ESPD-CodeLists-V2.1.0.xlsx. This has facilitated the automated generation of the ESPD-CriteriaTaxonomy Genericode instance with the UUIDs and Codes of each criterion. The code lists can be downloaded as an MS-Excel or as an ODS file. The list of criteria has been produced based on the CriteriaTaxonomy spread-sheets (both REGULATED and SELF-CONTAINED).

  • New codes have been added to the Code List ResponseDataType to increase the semantics of the basic elements thus facilitating the software application to process the responses of the economic operator in the SELFCONTAINED ESPD-Response document (the ''semantisation'' also facilitates the validation purposes, e.g. to ease the validation of whether the attribute schemeID carries a code defined in the EOIDType code list).

    • ECONOMIC_OPERATOR_IDENTIFIER, to detect whether an identifier in the response corresponds to to detect an Economic Operator

    • LOT_IDENTIFIER, to identify procurement procedure lots in the responses

    • WEIGHT_INDICATOR, to easily detect that an indicator corresponds to the fact that a criterion is weighted or not

    • CODE_BOOLEAN, to identify a specific type of GUI control element (e.g. a radio button)

  • Two new codes have been added to distinguish the Sole Contractor from the Consortium’s Lead Entity. The old SCL one has been marked as deprecated. See the code list EORoleType.

  • The complete set of code lists has been re-generated as Genericode 1.0 XML files, which can be accessed and downloaded from the GitHub repository GC folder.

Business Rules

The Interoperability Testbed has been set up to cope with the validation of ESPD-Request and ESPD-Response v2.1.0 documents (click on the arrow of the combo-box 'Validate as').

ESPD-REGULATED Criteria Taxonomy

  • In previous versions it was decided not to have a criterion named 'Global indication for all selection criteria' (a.k.a. the "Alpha Criterion") which would avoid the need of specifying long lists of selection criteria. The description of this criterion, as shown in the transitional EC’s ESPD-Service, is "Concerning the selection criteria the economic operator declares that It satisfies all the required selection criteria indicated in the relevant notice or in the procurement documents referred to in the notice.". After discussion the ESPD Working Group decided to retrieve back. Thus a new data structure for the Alpha Criterion has been added to the REGULATED Criteria Taxonomy spread-sheet. A new Section has also been added to the online documentation (see section VI.1 Alpha Criterion).

  • Exclusion Criteria #7 and #8 (section V.2 Contributions)

    • The data structures have been redone for better alignment to the ESPD Regulation

  • Selection criteria about ''Suitability'' are now split into two types of data structure, ''Enrolments'' and ''Service Contracts''. See tabs ''Suitability-I'' and ''Suitability-II'' of the ESPD-CriteriaTaxonomy-REGULATED spread-sheet.

  • Selection Criterion #32 "Specific yearly turnover" (CRITERION.SELECTION.ECONOMIC_FINANCIAL_STANDING.TURNOVER.SPECIFIC_YEARLY)

    • The cardinality of the QUESTION_GROUP c0cd9c1c-e90a-4ff9-bce3-ac0fe31abf16 has been changed from 1 to 1..n

  • Selection Criterion #62 (CRITERION.OTHER.EO_DATA.LOTS_TENDERED, See sections VIII.6.1 Regulated economic operator party and VIII.6.2 Self-contained economic operator party. See also Issue #212)

    • The data structure has changed, it now contains only a QUESTION asking for the list of Lots IDs as a free text field (differently to the ESPD-SELFCONTAINED which asks for a collection of LOT_IDENTIFIER data elements).

    • The group "Is this information available electronically" has been removed

  • Selection Criterion #63 (CRITERION.OTHER.EO_DATA.REDUCTION_OF_CANDIDATES)

    • This criterion (named "Contributions certificates") has been removed because it was redundant: the information required therein was also asked in C#58 "EO registered in a PQS" (CRITERION.OTHER.EO_DATA.TOGETHER_WITH_OTHERS). More details are provided in the Issue #227.

  • The cardinalities of the block "Is this information available electronically" have been re-adjusted

ESPD-SELF-CONTAINED Criteria Taxonomy

  • Exclusion Criteria #1 to #6 (section V.1 Convictions)

    • The UUID of the sub-group of questions referring to the date of conviction, reason, who has been convicted, etc. has been corrected and is now the same as in the REGULATED version

    • The cardinality of the main group of QUESTION(s), with UUID "7c637c0c-7703-4389-ba52-02997a055bd7" (line 11), has changed from 1..n to 1

  • Exclusion Criteria #7 and #8 (section V.2 Contributions)

    • The data structures have been redone for better alignment to the ESPD Regulation

    • The descriptions of the two criteria have been modified (as there was a mistake in the wording)

    • Time lapses that were treated as DESCRIPTIONS are now addressed as PERIODs; e.g. Criteria #7 and #8

    • The indentation of the QUESTION inside "Is this information available electronically" has been corrected

  • Selection Criteria #5 to #28 (section VI.2 Suitability):

  • Selection Criterion #24 (CRITERION.EXCLUSION.NATIONAL.OTHER)

    • The data structure has been updated, a PropertyDataType NONE was missing in line 6. This is a ''dummy'' element necessary here because the UBL-2.2 XSD Schema makes mandatory that the first element inside a GROUP or SUBGROUP must be a cac:TenderingCriterionProperty

  • Selection Criteria #31 and #32 (CRITERION.SELECTION.ECONOMIC_FINANCIAL_STANDING.TURNOVER.SPECIFIC_AVERAGE and CRITERION.SELECTION.ECONOMIC_FINANCIAL_STANDING.TURNOVER.SPECIFIC_YEARLY, see section VI.3 Turnovers)

    • The REQUIREMENT "Number of fiscal years" has been corrected (from AMOUNT to QUANTITY_INTEGER).

  • Selection Criteria #33 (CRITERION.SELECTION.ECONOMIC_FINANCIAL_STANDING.TURNOVER.SET_UP)

    • The property data type of the field 'Please specify' (in line 12) has changed from DESCRIPTION to DATE

  • Selection Criterion #35 (CRITERION.SELECTION.ECONOMIC_FINANCIAL_STANDING.RISK_INDEMNITY_INSURANCE, see section VI.6.2 Self-contained risk indemnity insurance)

    • The property data type for the identification of Lot ID in the CA requirement has changed to LOT_IDENTIFIER

    • Cardinality in Structure "Is this information available electronically" QUESTION has been changed to 1..n

    • Wrongly indented QUESTION has been corrected (in the structure "Is this information available electronically")

  • Selection Criterion #36 (CRITERION.SELECTION.ECONOMIC_FINANCIAL_STANDING.OTHER_REQUIREMENT(s), see section VI.7.2 Self-contained other economic or financial requirements)

    • The property data type for the identification of Lot ID in the CA requirement has changed to LOT_IDENTIFIER

    • UUIDs added

    • Cardinality corrected

  • Selection Criterion #36 (CRITERION.SELECTION.ECONOMIC_FINANCIAL_STANDING.OTHER_REQUIREMENT(s))

    • Wrongly indented QUESTION has been corrected (in the structure "Is this information available electronically")

  • Selection Criterion #38 (CRITERION.SELECTION.TECHNICAL_PROFESSIONAL_ABILITY.REFERENCES.SUPPLIES_DELIVERY_PERFORMANCE, see the criterion Data Structure in section ''VI.8.2 Self-contained references'' and in the SELF-CONTAINED Criteria Taxonomy spread-sheet tab ''SC-References'')

    • REQUIREMENT(s) regarding the identifiers of Lots are now semantised as LOT_IDENTIFIER

    • Cardinality of the QUESTION in the block "Is the information available electronically" has been corrected (from 1 to 1..n)

  • Selection Criterion #39 (CRITERION.SELECTION.TECHNICAL_PROFESSIONAL_ABILITY.REFERENCES.SERVICES_DELIVERY_PERFORMANCE, see the Criteria Taxonomy for the SELF-CONTAINED ESPD and section ''VI.8.2 Self-contained references'')

    • Description has been corrected. It now reads "For public service contracts only: During the reference period, the economic operator has provided the following main services of the type specified. Contracting authorities may require up to three years and allow experience dating from more than three years.".

  • Selection Criteria #40 to #51 about ''Abilities'' have been split into 5 different data structures (See these tabs in the ESPD-CriteriaTaxonomy-SELFCONTAINED spread-sheet)

    • SC-Abilities_1 (Persons), Criteria #40 and #41 (technicians)

    • SC-Abilities_2 (Facilities), Criteria #42 to #46 (about facilities, studies, supply chain, etc.)

    • SC-Abilities_3 (Education), Criterion #47 (about educational and professional qualifications). Concerning this Criterion, an Information Box has also been added to explain what is ESCO, the need of using URLs to identify the Qualifications and where to find additional information about ESCO (see also information box and XML example in section ''VI.9.6 Self-contained Abilities (III) - Education'')

  • SC-Abilities_4 (Checks), Criterion #48 (about allowance of checks), and

    • SC-Abilities_5 (Staff), about the contractor’s personnel

  • Selection Criteria #41 (CRITERION.SELECTION.TECHNICAL_PROFESSIONAL_ABILITY.TECHNICAL.TECHNICIANS_FOR_CARRYING_WORKS)

    • The word waited was replaced with weighted in different places of the criterion.

  • Selection Criteria #52 and #53 (Samples and certificates, section 'VI.11 Samples and certificates')

    • An indentation was corrected in Criteria 52 and 53. The QUESTION tag was misplaced and hidden.

  • Selection Criterion #57 (CRITERION.OTHER.EO_DATA.SHELTERED_WORKSHOP)

    • Wrongly indented tag {QUESTION} has been corrected.

  • Selection Criterion #58 (CRITERION.OTHER.EO_DATA.REGISTERED_IN_OFFICIAL_LIST)

    • The data structure has changed, the CAPTION "If the relevant documentation is available electronically, please provide it" has been removed. The use of the block "Is this information available electronically" (UUID) must be used for that specific purpose.

  • Selection Criterion #59 (CRITERION.OTHER.EO_DATA.TOGETHER_WITH_OTHERS)

    • The data structure of this criterion has been modified to align it to the one in the REGULATED ESPD

    • A CODE property data type has replaced the type IDENTIFIER (which was wrongly assigned to the field 'Please indicate the role of the economic operator in the group (leader, responsible for specific tasks…​)' in line 8).

  • Selection Criteria #60 (Relied on entities, CRITERION.OTHER.EO_DATA.RELIES_ON_OTHER_CAPACITIES)

    • In Criterion 60, the DataPropertyTypes ECONOMIC_OPERATOR_IDENTIFIER has replaced IDENTIFIER in line 8

    • CODE has replaced DESCRIPTION in line 9

    • Wrongly indented tag {QUESTION} has also been corrected.

  • Selection Criterion #61 (CRITERION.OTHER.EO_DATA.SUBCONTRACTS_WITH_THIRD_PARTIES. The code list to be used is the maintained in SIMAP for CodeLists (https://simap.ted.europa.eu/cpv)

    • ID of the subcontractor has been semantised from IDENTIFIER to ECONOMIC_OPERATOR_ID

    • The field 'Activity of the entity (for this specific procedure) can now be expressed as a set of one or more CPV codes

  • Selection Criterion #62 (CRITERION.OTHER.EO_DATA.LOTS_TENDERED, See sections ''VIII.6.1 Regulated economic operator party'' and ''VIII.6.2 Self-contained economic operator party'')

    • The group "Is this information available electronically" has been removed

    • Wrongly indented tag {QUESTION} has been corrected.

  • Selection Criterion #63 (CRITERION.OTHER.EO_DATA.REDUCTION_OF_CANDIDATES)

    • This criterion (named "Contributions certificates") has been removed because it was redundant: the information required therein was also asked in C#58 "EO registered in a PQS" (CRITERION.OTHER.EO_DATA.TOGETHER_WITH_OTHERS). More details are provided in the Issue #227.

  • The cardinalities of the block "Is this information available electronically" have been re-adjusted

UUIDs

  • Criteria UUIDs are not backwards-consistent (with versions 1.0.2, 2.0.*). New UUIDs have been added for the new ESPD-SELF-CONTAINED groups and sub-groups where needed. All corrected and new UUIDs are red-coloured in the CriteriaTaxonomy spread-sheets.

v2.0.2 (May 2018)

The ESPD EDM version 2.0.2 is now released and contains only bugs fixed on the basis of the received comments on GitHub. The release contains a definition of all relevant business rules and corresponding schematron files to validate Regulate and Self-Contained ESPD Request and Response XML instances (including the validation of the criteria taxonomy). The corresponding TestBed for version 2.1.1 has been set up. The specifications for version 2.0.2 contain an updated distribution of the ESPD Exchange Data Model and include a corresponding implementation guideline which clarifies the ESPD validation architecture in Annex I. Also, the BIS 41 – ESPD version 2.0.2 was updated accordingly.

This release encompasses these other minor updates:

  • Code lists

    • A new code list has been added: "WeightingType". Reason: some selection criteria need to be weighted. In version 2.0.0 the element "cbc:WeightingTypeCode" was added to the root of the "UBL-QualificationApplicationResponse-2.2-Pre-award.xd" document.

    • Two code lists have been removed as they are not used anymore in versions 2.0.x: PeriodMeasureTypeCodes and TechnicalCapabilityTypeCode.

  • Criteria data structures

    • All criteria have now one block "Is this information available electronically" with cardinality 0..n. See data structures spread-sheets for both the REGULATED and the SELF-CONTAINED models.

    • In the SELF-CONTAINED ESPD CRITERION.SELECTION.ECONOMIC_FINANCIAL_STANDING.RISK_INDEMNITY_INSURANCE Subgroup "83e3dcc4-c9b3-47e5-9fb8-ffd8386679f1" changed its cardinality from 1 to 1..n.

    • In "Financial Ratios" for the SELF-CONTAINED ESPD, the REQUIREMENT "Ratio Type" needs to be a CODE (not a DESCRIPTION, as in previous versions). This code is needed by the Contracting Authority to specify the BACH’s code (See section "VI.4.2 Self-contained financial ratios" of the online documentation for details on this).

  • UUIDS

    • In the previous versions the UUIDs for the block "Is this information available electronically" where not 100% consistent. For some criteria they used the same UUIDs as in version 1.0.2 and for other a completely different set of UUIDS. This has been corrected and now all criteria have one block "Is this information available electronically", and all of them use the same UUIDs (the ones used also in version 1.0.2).

v2.0.1 (1st February 2018)

The changes specified herein have been applied in both (1) the ESPD-EDM specification, version 2.1.1 published in this Github repository; and (2) the ESPDInt BIS document.

See also details in: Release Notes Details and in this Github "Issues" section.

  • Code Lists:

    • The "ActivityType", "AmountTypeCode" and "ContractType" Code Lists have been removed, as they’re not used. The Code List "ContractType" is covered (i.e. replaced) by the CodeList "ProcedureType". The ESPDInt BIS document has been modified accordingly: Section about Code Lists has been updated.

  • Use of the UBL-2.2 Schemas elements:

    • The UBL-2.2 element ProfileExecutionID is used now to compulsorily specify the version and model of the ESPD-EDM. See the possible values in the Code List "ProfileExecutionID" (e.g. "ESPD-EDMv2.0.0-REGULATED", "ESPD-EDMv2.0.0-SELFCONTAINED", "ESPD-EDMv2.1.1-REGULATED", "ESPD-EDMv2.1.1-SELFCONTAINED"…​see also the Guideline and XML examples. Remember also that cardinalities are to be controlled via business rule). The ESPDInt BIS document has been modified accordingly: Inclusion of the ESPD version identifier (tir070-299;tir092-299). The following Business Rules have been added: TRDM092-55, TRDM072-36 for tir92-299 and tir070-299 to control the Evidence version.

    • The v2.0.0 documentation specified in section "VIII.5 Reference to publications and to the ESPD Request" that the elements cac:QualificationApplicationRequest/cac:AdditionalDocumentReference/cbc:ID and cac:QualificationApplicationRequest/cac:AdditionalDocumentReference/cbc:UUID had to be used to refer to other documents. This was an editorial error and has been corrected: the elements to be referred are: cac:QualificationApplicationRequest/cbc:ID and cac:QualificationApplicationRequest/cbc:UUID.

    • Element cac:ProcurementProject (cardinality 0..1): Use this component to identify and describe the procurement administrative procedure. The REGULATED version should not contain a cac:ProcurementProject in order to ensure the back-wards compatibility with the version 1.0.2. Use this component in case the ESPD is SELF-CONTAINED and the procedure is divided into lots. In this case use the ProcurementProjectLot component to provide details specific to the lot and reserve the ProcurementProject component to describe the global characteristics of the procedure.

  • ESPD-EDM Cardinalities:

    • The ESPD-EDM cardinality for the element cac:TenderingCriterionResponse/cac:ResponseValue has been modified to 0..n (see the online ESPD-EDM documentation).

    • The cardinality of the element cac:Evidence/cbc:ID is now mandatory (to be controlled via business rule, as the UBL-XSD is 0..1). The ESPDInt BIS document has been modified accordingly.

    • About elements of cac:ProcurementProject:

      • The cardinality of cbc:ProcurementTypeCode is now '0..1' in both the REGULATED and the SELFCONTAINED ESPD Requests (Thus ensuring compatibility between version 2.1.1 REGULATED and v1.0.2). The ESPDInt BIS document has been modified accordingly: Cardinality for the class Procurement Project and the subordinated elements tir070-503, tir070-504, tir92-505, tir92-506 from 1..1 to 0..1 has been changed.

      • The cardinality of cbc:Name is now 0.1 in both the REGULATED and the SELFCONTAINED ESPD Requests. If used the text must match the one used in the Contract Notice.

      • The cardinality of cbc:Description is now 0.n in both the REGULATED and the SELFCONTAINED ESPD Requests (thus ensuring compatibility with UBL-2.2 multi-line descriptions). If used the text must match the one used in the Contract Notice.

      • ESPDInt BIS document: Adding cardinalitites for "Evidence issuer party" and "Criterion fulfillment URI".

  • UUIDS reviewed: UUIDs, names and descriptions in files ESPD-REGULATED-CriteriaTaxonomy-V02.00.01 and ESPD-SELFCONTAINED-CriteriaTaxonomy-V02.00.01.xlsx do match now the ones in ESPD-Data_Structures-REGULATED-V02.00.01 and ESPD-Data_Structures-SELFCONTAINED-V02.00.01 spreadsheet books. Some UUIDS for subgroups of requirements have also been corrected (e.g. SC-General_Turnover -→ 5ca58d66-3ef1-4145-957c-45d5b18a837f, SC-Specific_Turnover -→ 19a68e37-d307-4a28-9061-c22cd767be58, SC-General_Average_Turnover -→ 53882893-f4a8-40ae-99dc-cad7b0748790, SC-Specific_Average_Turnover -→ 6cff132b-8d15-4f79-ae37-2f9295432381).

  • Data Structures:

    • Information available electronically: The group "Is this information available electronically" is now present i all the criteria data structures (see "Data Structures" in the "dist/cl" files).

    • Some codes "ON*" were erroneous and have been transformed into "ONTRUE", e.g.Criterion 22 in the REGULATED Data Structures spreadsheets book AND Criterion 22 in the SELF-CONTAINED Data Structures spreadsheets book.

    • Missing data types: Some data types were missing and have been added; e.g. compare criteria 9 to 11, and criteria 62 and 63 between versions 2.0.0 and version 2.1.1.

The ESPDInt BIS document has been aligned accordingly.

  • Editorial corrections:

    • ESPD-EDM specification:

      • The definitions in the Data Structure spread-sheets containing syntax and grammar errors have been corrected (based on the texts on the Regulation Annex II and ESPD Service GUI). Additional comments have also been added in the online documentation about the use of the UBL-2.2 0..n multi-line descriptions, as requested by some users.

      • Requirement about LotsThe documentation (in version 2.1.1) has been modified and reads now "One Lot must be always instantiated in the REGULATED ESPD XML document, and its identifier value should be '0'. The REGULATED version of the ESPD cannot be used for procurement procedures divided into Lots. For procedures divided into Lots use the SELF-CONTAINED version.

      • Additional explanatory texts have been added at the beginning of sections "VI.2.6 Self-contained specific yearly turnover" and "VI.2.8 Self-contained specific average turnover" to clarify the use of CPVs.

      • Group "Is this information available electronically": Beware that in version 2.0.0 this sentence was phrased differently as "Is this information available at no cost to the authorities from an EU Member State database?".

      • Enhanced description of the codes ON*, ONTRUE,ONFALSE, and other Data Structure elements: A sub-section "IV.4 Mock-ups, data structures, XML examples and tools" has been added to the online documentation explaining the meaning and use of each column of the Data Structures.

      • The figures representing the criteria taxonomies (both exclusion grounds and selection criteria) are now aligned with the criteria defined in the CriteriaTaxonomy and Data Structure spread-sheets (compare images in sections "V. Exclusion criteria", "VI. Selection criteria" and these files located in the "dist/cl" folder).

    • ESPDInt BIS document:

      • "Customization Identifier" for the Request and the Response to the section "Identifiers" added.

      • Name of the ListIDs named in the Business Rules TRDM092-33 and TRDM070-BR-22 has been modified.

      • Implementation Guideline for tir070-061 and tir92-071 modified.

      • tir70-502 added to reflect the country name.

      • Illustration of the differences between the regulated and the self-contained ESPD in data models and implementation guidelines.

  • ESPD-EDM specification artefacts:

    • The content of the "dist/xlst" folder has been enriched and reorganised as follows:

      • The stylesheets used to transform the Data Structure *.ods files into ESPD-EDM XML instances are now under the folder 'dist\xslt\ODS Data Structures to ESPD XML'. New files have been added to this folder to help with the automation of the generation of the bunch of all the data structures in a go: e.g. ESPD-Transformation.jar, ESPD-Transformer.bat. The use of these files is explained in section "IV.4 Mock-ups, data structures, XML examples and tools", subsection "Data structures spread-sheets as a tool to generate XML instances" of the documentation.

      • A new folder named "XLSX CodeLists to Genericode" contains a style-sheet that can be used to generate OASIS Genericode 1.0 *.gc files (see "dist/cl/gc" folder) out of the spread-sheets book containing the Code Lists (file "dist/cl/xlsx/ESPD-CodeLists-V02.00.01.xlsx"). Please read the README.txt file inside this folder with the usage instructions.

  • Business Rules:

    • Modifications applied to the ESPDInt BIS document (aligned to the modifications on the ESPD-EDM specification):

      • Changing path mentioned in the following Business Rules: TRDM092-13, TRDM092-14 and in the following implementation guidelines tir92-543, tir92-309.

      • Adding the following Business Rules: TRDM092-56, TRDM072-37 for tir070-601, tir092-601 to control the criterion requirement structure.

      • Adding the following Business Rules: TRDM092-57 for tir92-525 to control the confidentiality of responses.

      • Removed the element "Postbox" from all address classes.

      • Extended requirement description of tbr070-002 and tbr92-019

      • Adding the following elements tir070-601, tir092-601

      • Adding the Business Rule TRDM092-58 for tir092-526 to control the Criterion Property Groups

v2.0.0 (25th July 2017)

  1. Adoption of UBL-2.2 XSD Schemata;

  2. Introduction of REGULATED and SELFCONTAINED ESPD