Open User Community Meeting Report

Specific GitHub issues – solutions: Economic Operator descriptive requirements and National pre-qualification system solutions discussed during bilateral meetings with the colleagues from Slovenia.

ESPD-EDM & ePO – model evolution: eAccess & eSubmission, the eProcurement Ontology colleagues gave an overview of the evolution and alignment of both models, ePO and ESPD-EDM concerning the modules eAccess, corresponding to the ESPD Request, and eSubmission, corresponding to the ESPD Response.

ESPD, eForms & eCertis – interaction: integration & possible workflow, colleagues from GROW gave an overview of the current situation of the three systems and presented ideas for a future possible workflow to integrate the three of them. This will be used as a basis for bilateral meetings.

Unabelled issues will be considered as needing an immediate discussion and will be treated in short terms. Their status and scope will be also presented to the users during the OUC meetings.

Labelled issues will be considered as no immediate: not blocking issues, or issues needing a deep analysis and discussion with the users and other procurement teams. They will be dealt with by and by and might be reassigned to another team, such as eForms or eCertis.

#415 – General and Specific Turnover: clarification is provided to the colleagues form Belgium implementing v3.3.0,

#414 – UBL-UnqualifiedDataTypes-2.2.xsd in ubl-2.3 directory: clarification is provided to the colleagues form Belgium implementing v3.3.0,

#382 - Incomplete ESPD example artifacts description in criterion 23 released with v4.0.0-rc and to be closed, and

#312 - UUID for Repeatable Question Sub Group, the ESPD team is dealing with it and will be delivered with v4.0.0.

GitHub folders refactoring: new folders distribution and removed folders, such as the java-library and __ESPDTeam__;

Criterion folder contents: new folder created containing the VBA-Scripts_Export and new Excel criterion files, for the Request and for the Response;

XML samples folder contents: new updated files;

Other folders: Codelists, to which files from __ESPDTeam__ folder are moved, Conceptual model and its updates, UBL with no changes, and Validation whose update is ongoing.

UUID migration tool: a new tool which helps migration and upgrade from previous ESPD-EDM versions is presented. It is useful to identify the UUID used in eCertis for a given criterion and the corresponding name of the criterion in the ESPD-EDM Excel file. The link to the tool. Users are invited to send their feedback and suggestions for further enhancements.

GitHub template: new templates to open GitHub issues are proposed to the users. To facilitate the understanding and analysis of GitHub issues opened by the ESPD users for the ESPD Team three new templates are created in the espd demo site and the user can choose the different options: Questions about the ESPD-EDM, Idea for a New Feature, and Other Request. Each template has a list of suggestions for the details that a user can provide to the ESPD Team. Also the ESPD version that the issue refers to can be selected. The users have always the possibility to open a blank issue. The Users Community is invited to start using these templates and provide the ESPD Team with their feedback and suggestions.