Other aspects of participation and selection
Related information requirements
In restricted procedures, competitive procedures with negotiation, competitive dialogue procedures and innovation partnerships, buyers 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" 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 buyer to specify these objective and non-discriminatory criteria and for the economic operator to declare that it meets them.
However, in this version of the ESPD-EDM he behaviour of this criterion is linked to eForms instantiation of the aim of using the reduction of candidates. Meaning that if in eForms CN this is not stated, it will not be part of the ESPD-Request nor Response.
Data structure
The figure below shows the data elements required to the economic operator for this criterion in the ESPD-Request:
Figure 190. 'Reduction of candidates' data structure
XML example (ESPD-Request)
The XML snippet below shows how an instance of this criterion looks like in the ESPD-Request.
Reduction of Candidates - (QUESTION(s) in the ESPD-Request)
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<!-- Criterion:Reduction of the number of qualified candidates -->
<cac:TenderingCriterion>
<cbc:ID schemeID="criterion" schemeAgencyID="OP" schemeVersionID="3.1.0">51c39ba9-0444-4967-afe9-36f753b30175</cbc:ID>
<cbc:CriterionTypeCode listID="http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/criterion" listAgencyID="OP" listVersionID="20210616-0">staff-red</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:ProcurementProjectLotReference>
<cbc:ID schemeID="Criterion" schemeAgencyID="OP" schemeVersionID="3.1.0">LOT-00000</cbc:ID>
</cac:ProcurementProjectLotReference>
<cac:ProcurementProjectLotReference>
<cbc:ID schemeID="Criterion" schemeAgencyID="OP" schemeVersionID="3.1.0">LOT-00001</cbc:ID>
</cac:ProcurementProjectLotReference>
<cac:TenderingCriterionPropertyGroup>
<cbc:ID schemeID="criterion" schemeAgencyID="OP" schemeVersionID="3.1.0">ecc69670-f428-4446-908f-689568ca0d0d</cbc:ID>
<cbc:PropertyGroupTypeCode listID="property-group-type" listAgencyID="OP" listVersionID="3.1.0">ON*</cbc:PropertyGroupTypeCode>
<cac:TenderingCriterionProperty>
<cbc:ID schemeID="criterion" schemeAgencyID="OP" schemeVersionID="3.1.0">de82e45f-a0f6-43a6-9761-bfae3385fd1d</cbc:ID>
<cbc:Description>Your answer?</cbc:Description>
<cbc:TypeCode listID="criterion-element-type" listAgencyID="OP" listVersionID="3.1.0">QUESTION</cbc:TypeCode>
<cbc:ValueDataTypeCode listID="response-data-type" listAgencyID="OP" listVersionID="3.1.0">INDICATOR</cbc:ValueDataTypeCode>
</cac:TenderingCriterionProperty>
<cac:SubsidiaryTenderingCriterionPropertyGroup>
<cbc:ID schemeID="criterion" schemeAgencyID="OP" schemeVersionID="3.1.0">f13754df-7e15-4155-aaa6-7ca6407baa47</cbc:ID>
<cbc:PropertyGroupTypeCode listID="property-group-type" listAgencyID="OP" listVersionID="3.1.0">ONTRUE</cbc:PropertyGroupTypeCode>
<cac:TenderingCriterionProperty>
<cbc:ID schemeID="criterion" schemeAgencyID="OP" schemeVersionID="3.1.0">ffc141f8-5ffe-4492-9066-7ff5dd633583</cbc:ID>
<cbc:Description>Please describe them</cbc:Description>
<cbc:TypeCode listID="criterion-element-type" listAgencyID="OP" listVersionID="3.1.0">QUESTION</cbc:TypeCode>
<cbc:ValueDataTypeCode listID="response-data-type" listAgencyID="OP" listVersionID="3.1.0">DESCRIPTION</cbc:ValueDataTypeCode>
</cac:TenderingCriterionProperty>
</cac:SubsidiaryTenderingCriterionPropertyGroup>
</cac:TenderingCriterionPropertyGroup>
<cac:TenderingCriterionPropertyGroup>
<cbc:ID schemeID="criterion" schemeAgencyID="OP" schemeVersionID="3.1.0">7458d42a-e581-4640-9283-34ceb3ad4345</cbc:ID>
<cbc:PropertyGroupTypeCode listID="property-group-type" listAgencyID="OP" listVersionID="3.1.0">ON*</cbc:PropertyGroupTypeCode>
<cac:TenderingCriterionProperty>
<cbc:ID schemeID="criterion" schemeAgencyID="OP" schemeVersionID="3.1.0">01a08984-328f-4bc8-88d9-56634e66ca3c</cbc:ID>
<cbc:Description>Is this information available electronically?</cbc:Description>
<cbc:TypeCode listID="criterion-element-type" listAgencyID="OP" listVersionID="3.1.0">QUESTION</cbc:TypeCode>
<cbc:ValueDataTypeCode listID="response-data-type" listAgencyID="OP" listVersionID="3.1.0">INDICATOR</cbc:ValueDataTypeCode>
</cac:TenderingCriterionProperty>
<cac:SubsidiaryTenderingCriterionPropertyGroup>
<cbc:ID schemeID="criterion" schemeAgencyID="OP" schemeVersionID="3.1.0">41dd2e9b-1bfd-44c7-93ee-56bd74a4334b</cbc:ID>
<cbc:PropertyGroupTypeCode listID="property-group-type" listAgencyID="OP" listVersionID="3.1.0">ONTRUE</cbc:PropertyGroupTypeCode>
<cac:TenderingCriterionProperty>
<cbc:ID schemeID="criterion" schemeAgencyID="OP" schemeVersionID="3.1.0">fe61b9a7-9e60-45eb-98c9-cd7102a86013</cbc:ID>
<cbc:Description>Evidence Supplied</cbc:Description>
<cbc:TypeCode listID="criterion-element-type" listAgencyID="OP" listVersionID="3.1.0">QUESTION</cbc:TypeCode>
<cbc:ValueDataTypeCode listID="response-data-type" listAgencyID="OP" listVersionID="3.1.0">EVIDENCE_IDENTIFIER</cbc:ValueDataTypeCode>
</cac:TenderingCriterionProperty>
</cac:SubsidiaryTenderingCriterionPropertyGroup>
</cac:TenderingCriterionPropertyGroup>
</cac:TenderingCriterion>
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