Schemas

Three schemas will cater for the different categories of notices. Table 1 provides the correspondence between notice categories and the schemas.

For Change notices, the required schema is the one of the notice subject to changes (e.g. a Change Notice for a change applied to an existing Contract Notice shall comply with the ContractNotice schema).

Table 1. Notice Types and their associated schemas
Notice category Notice Type Schema

Prior Information / Periodic Indicative Notice

  • PIN profile

  • PIN only

  • PIN time limit

  • PIN CFC general

  • PIN CFC social

PriorInformationNotice

Contract Notice

  • QS

  • CN general

  • CN social

  • CN subco

  • CN design

ContractNotice

Direct Award Pre-notification Notice

  • CAN VEAT

ContractAwardNotice

Contract Award Notice

  • CAN general

  • CAN social

  • CAN design

Contract Modification Notice

  • Contract modification

Change Notice

  • Change notice

Any of the 3

The schemas are built using elements from different namespaces (some defined by UBL, others created for the purpose of eForms) and a version number will be used to distinguish different releases. Information on namespaces and schema versioning is provided below.

Namespaces

The namespaces used in the eForms schemas are described below in Table 3.

Please note that the names below are URIs (i.e. Uniform Resource Identifiers) used to uniquely identify the domains. They are not URLs (i.e. Uniform Resource Locators) to any online resource.

Table 2. Namespace prefixes & names

Prefix

Name

Description

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urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:PriorInformationNotice-2

urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:ContractNotice-2

urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:ContractAwardNotice-2

No namespace prefix for the root element

cac

urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonAggregateComponents-2

Covers all UBL common aggregated components

cbc

urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-2

Covers all UBL common basic components

ext

urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonExtensionComponents-2

Covers all UBL common extension components

efext

http://data.europa.eu/p27/eforms-ubl-extensions/1

Covers all eForms specific extension components

efac

http://data.europa.eu/p27/eforms-ubl-extension-aggregate-components/1

Covers all eForms specific extension aggregate components

efbc

http://data.europa.eu/p27/eforms-ubl-extension-basic-components/1

Covers all eForms specific extension basic components

Versioning

Please consult the versioning information provided in detail here.