Communication

Adds a communication object to the tender and lot objects, to describe the modalities of communication about key events.

Guidance

If you are using the Lots extension, follow its guidance on whether to use tender.lots fields or tender fields.

Legal context

In the European Union, this extension's fields correspond to eForms BT-124, BT-127, BT-631, BT-632 and BT-738.For correspondences to eForms fields, see OCDS for eForms. For correspondences to Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), see OCDS for the European Union.

Example

Tender

An example of a planning notice from which a competition notice will follow.

{
  "tender": {
    "communication": {
      "atypicalToolName": "ACertainTool",
      "atypicalToolUrl": "https://ecomm-procurement.example.net",
      "futureNoticeDate": "2020-06-17T00:00:00+01:00",
      "noticePreferredPublicationDate": "2020-03-15T00:00:00+01:00",
      "documentAvailabilityPeriod": {
        "startDate": "2020-06-15T00:00:00+01:00",
        "endDate": "2020-07-10T00:00:00+01:00"
      }
    }
  }
}

Lot

An example of a planning notice that is used as a call for competition and that is divided into lots.

{
  "tender": {
    "lots": [
      {
        "id": "LOT-0001",
        "communication": {
          "atypicalToolName": "ACertainTool",
          "atypicalToolUrl": "https://ecomm-procurement.example.net",
          "noticePreferredPublicationDate": "2020-03-15T00:00:00+01:00",
          "documentAvailabilityPeriod": {
            "startDate": "2020-06-15T00:00:00+01:00",
            "endDate": "2020-07-10T00:00:00+01:00"
          },
          "invitationToConfirmInterestDispatchDate": "2020-11-15T09:00:00+01:00"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Issues

Report issues for this extension in the ocds-extensions repository, putting the extension's name in the issue's title.

Changelog

2023-03-09

• Add fields:
  • Communication.atypicalToolName
  • Communication.invitationToConfirmInterestDispatchDate
  • Communication.noticePreferredPublicationDate
  • Lot.communication

2021-01-19

• Add tender.communication.documentAvailabilityPeriod field

2020-04-24

• Add minProperties, minItems and/or minLength properties.

This extension was originally discussed as part of the OCDS for EU profile and in pull requests.