Contract Modification Notice

A contract modification may occur during contract execution and applies to a Result or Contract Modification notice only.

With a single Contract Modification notice, it is only possible to modify contracts belonging to the same notice, and only if none of them have been modified in the meantime. When some contracts in a notice have already been modified, then any further contract modification for these contracts has to be applied on the latest Contract Modification notice. For contracts that have not been modified, the new contract modification may be performed based on the result notice but shall not include contracts already modified.

If a notice only contains N SettledContract elements, then there may not be more than N references to contracts in the Contract Modification notice. A Contract Modification may only refer to a single contract; there may be multiple Contract Modification elements, they each have to refer to a different contract.

Table 1. Modification components
Field ID Field Name Description Cardin. XSD element

BT-1501(n)-Contract

Modification Previous Notice Identifier

Reference to the previous notice (Result or Contract Modification)

1

 
efac:ContractModification/efbc:ChangedNoticeIdentifier

BT-1501(c)-Contract

Modified Contract Reference

Reference to the modified contract (i.e. technical ID CON-xxxx)

1

 
efac:ContractModification/efbc:ModifiedContractIdentifier

BT-202-Contract

Modification Description

Description of the modification

*

 
efac:ContractModification/efac:Change/efbc:ChangeDescription

BT-1501(p)-Contract

Modified Notice Part Reference

Identification of the modified parts of the notice

*

 
efac:ContractModification/efac:Change/efac:ChangedSection/efbc:ChangedSectionIdentifier

BT-200-Contract

Modification Reason Code

Main reason for modifying the contract

1

 
efac:ContractModification/efac:ChangeReason/cbc:ReasonCode

BT-201-Contract

Modification Reason Description

Reason, expressed as text, that justifies the Contract Modification

1

 
efac:ChangeReason/efbc:ReasonDescription

The possible values Modified Notice Part Reference may have are:

  • BUYER to refer to the buyers,

  • RESULT to refer to the Notice Result,

  • The technical identifier of an existing LotResult (RES-xxxx),

  • The technical identifier of an existing LotTender (TEN-xxxx),

  • The technical identifier of an existing Tendering Party (TPA-xxxx),

  • The technical identifier of an existing Touchpoint (TPO-xxxx),

  • The technical identifier of an existing Organisation (ORG-xxxx),

  • The technical identifier of an existing Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO-xxxx)

The possible Modification reason code values are referenced in the modification-justification codelist.

The Contract Modification elements occur in the extensions at the root of the notice.

For each "efac:ContractModification" element, as part of the changed sections, there shall be, a unique reference to a contract within the Contract Modification notice using the contract technical identifier.

<efac:ContractModification>
    <!-- Modification Previous Notice Identifier BT-1501(n)-Contract -->
    <efbc:ChangedNoticeIdentifier schemeName="notice-id-ref">755db7f6-6aa1-453b-9087-1df5f7725112-02</efbc:ChangedNoticeIdentifier>
    <!-- Modified Contract Reference BT-1501(c)-Contract -->
    <efbc:ModifiedContractIdentifier schemeName="contract">CON-0001</efbc: ModifiedContractIdentifier>
    <efac:Change>
        <!-- Modification Description BT-202-Contract -->
        <efbc:ChangeDescription languageID="ENG">The scope of the procurement ...</efbc:ReasonDescription>
        <efbc:ChangeDescription languageID="FRE">Le périmètre de ...</efbc:ReasonDescription>
        <efac:ChangedSection>
            <!-- Modified Notice Part Reference BT-1501(p)-Contract -->
            <efbc:ChangedSectionIdentifier>TEN-0001</efbc:ChangedSectionIdentifier>
        </efac:ChangedSection>
        <efac:ChangedSection>
           <!-- Modified Notice Part Reference BT-1501(p)-Contract -->
           <efbc:ChangedSectionIdentifier>TEN-0003</efbc:ChangedSectionIdentifier>
        </efac:ChangedSection>
    </efac:Change>
    <efac:ChangeReason>
        <!-- Modification Reason Code BT-200-Contract -->
        <cbc:ReasonCode listName="modification-justification">mod-cir</cbc:ReasonCode>
        <!-- Modification Reason Description BT-201-Contract -->
        <efbc:ReasonDescription languageID="ENG">Following an Act of God ...</efbc:ReasonDescription>
        <efbc:ReasonDescription languageID="FRE">Suite à un événement ...</efbc:ReasonDescription>
    </efac:ChangeReason>
</cac:ContractModification>