Release Notes
1. v4.1.0 (October 2024)
The ESPD-EDM version 4.1.0 is a minor release which focuses on the various following changes, listed in order of importance:
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Evidence group misplacement fixed;
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Simplification of SUBCRITERION;
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Added SUBCRITERION block for criteria:
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Purely national exclusion grounds (exclusion ground)
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Financial ratio (selection criteria)
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Added REQUIREMENT_GROUP block for criteria:
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Subcontracting proportion
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For supply contracts: samples, descriptions or photographs without certification of authenticity
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For supply contracts: samples, descriptions or photographs with certification of authenticity
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Added relied on block for selection criteria:
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For works contracts: performance of works of the specified type
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For supply contracts: performance of deliveries of the specified type
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For service contracts: performance of services of the specified type
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Code lists general updates;
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Validation and Schematron Rules updates;
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Conceptual model updates;
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Online documentation updates;
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Fix GitHub issue #425
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Simplification of SUBCRITERION, is modelled as LEGISLATION.
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Fix GitHub issue #426
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Selection criteria and national legislation.
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Fix GitHub issue #427
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Adding the "Relied upon" block.
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1.1. ESPD Demo site
ESPD Demo site to allow User Community to test and validate latest versions of ESPD before implementing the ESPD Service. This site offers the possibility for our User Community to give feedback on ESPD-EDM. The site is provided as Open Source code and is available on GitHub GitHub ESPD Demo repository, more details can be found in README file.
1.2. ESPD-EDM Criterion files - Data Structure
Several issues have been resolved related to the data structure of the ESPD-EDM Criterion (taxonomy) file and criterion file can be found in the criterion folder.
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Evidence Group or Subgroup misplacement
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Evidence Group or Subgroup which were moved at top level.
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Fix GitHub issue #425 - SUBCRITERION simplification
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SUBCRITERION was modelled like LEGISLATION element.
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Fix missing elements
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Added SUBCRITERION block into the next exclusion ground and selection criteria:
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Purely national exclusion grounds
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Financial ratio
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Added REQUIREMENT_GROUP block into the next selection criteria:
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Subcontracting proportion
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For supply contracts: samples, descriptions or photographs without certification of authenticity
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For supply contracts: samples, descriptions or photographs with certification of authenticity
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Fix GitHub issue #427 - Relied upon block
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Added Relied upon block into the next selection criteria:
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For works contracts: performance of works of the specified type
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For supply contracts: performance of deliveries of the specified type
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For service contracts: performance of services of the specified type
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ADDITIONAL_DESCRIPTION_LINE is deprecated
1.3. Code lists
Following Code Lists have been updated from EU Vocabularies with the latest release version: AccessRight, Country, Criterion, EconomicOperatorSize, Language, and Occupation.
ESPD version has been updated in the technical code lists files to match the current version (specific files can be found in the folder codelists/gc), for tags: Version, CanonicalURI, CanonicalVersionURI, LocationURI.
The label "ESPD-EDMv4.1.0" has been added in the related sheet "ProfileExecutionID" (in the last row of the table) of the Excel file ESPD-CodeLists.xlsx.
1.4. Validation - Interoperability Testbed
The ESPD Team provides a new repository to generate Schematron Business Rules and XSL files necessary for validation process: ESPD Schematron Validation. This repository allows the processing, transformation, and validation of ESPD XML examples, UBL 2.3 XSD files, genericode codelists, and Schematron business rules files. The resulting XSL files are used for Interoperability Testbed.
Update of Interoperability Testbed ESPD validator
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Generating the ESPD validator, for the Request and the Response, for v4.1.0 with the latest entry files (genericode files for code lists, xml files for the ESPD Request and the ESPD Response).
