Working Group meeting 25/01/2022

Date: 25/01/2022
Participants: Cecile Guasch, Giorgia Lodi, HK, Natalie Muric
Model editor: Eugeniu Costetchi
Note editor: Andreea Pasăre

Agenda

  • Present HTML version of model-refactoring branch and present Buyer role and Agents diagrams. Role dependencies included.

Discussion

On branch feature/model-refactoring we have a common model for both models.
The HTML format is on docs.ted.europa.eu[docs.ted.europa.eu]
In the eProcurement Ontology section we have the Working Group meetings. We provide the meeting minutes in two formats: one long text or meeting by meeting.
In the epo-docs section we have two versions of the documentation: dev and 2.0.0.

In the dev version we have the HTML reports based on models existing in various active branches.
We could create a 2.0.1 version and add the HTML report for the feature/frozen-2.0.1 branch.
The epo:Purpose class could be included in the procurement objects.

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We will make sure to add diagrams that reflect the model properly.

Buyer Role diagram

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The Procurement Service Provider Role can act on behalf of the Buyer. Both roles can be played by a Central Purchasing Body.

Central Purchasing Body should be a type of Role and not an Organisation.

epo:actsOnBehalfOf and epo:delegatesAncillaryActivitiesTo relations are now at the Role level, and not at the Organisation level like in the 2.0.1 version.

Based on the definition of the buyer role, the Buyer is a conflation of both Awarder and Acquirer.

By being so specific with the roles, we may add complexity to the model.

If we specify just the Central Purchasing Body, it should be enough to cover all data.

Discuss the BuyerProfile class. It has only an attribute, epo:hasURL. We could add this attribute in the epo:Buyer class in order to simplify the model. We need to further discuss this issue in order to clarify.

Decisions

  • Add link to the new epo-docs on the ePO wiki

  • Create 2.0.1 version of the documentation (HTML report of 2.0.1 version)

  • Make CPB a subtype of Buyer

  • epo:hasContractingEntity should be epo:isContractingEntity

Questions:

  • Can the Awarder role be played by a Procurement Service Provider?

  • Should we rename Acquirer to Purchaser?