Pre-Award Specifications and Guidelines

Pre-Award Specifications and Guidelines

 

In this page you will find the Peppol BIS Specifications for the Pre-Award community:

  • Below you can find a full list of the current Peppol Business Interoperability Specifications (BIS) for the Pre-Award area.
  • The listed Peppol BIS are formally approved by the OpenPeppol Managing Committee and the pre-award community.

The 2021 November release of the Peppol pre-award artefacts (BIS documents and validation artefacts) has been published on 2021-12-17. The release from Peppol includes new profile identifiers and specification identifiers and new scheme identifiers for electronic addresses and parties used in BIS P001 – P005. Corresponding Peppol solutions that implement these BISs should be updated once the release is published. Additionally, the profiles P006 – Search Notices, P007 – Tender Withdrawal, P008 – Publish Notice and P009 – Notify Awarding have been added to the eTendering context. Due to the breaking changes in BIS P001 – P005 the new version number 1.1.0 will be settled for all PrAC Pre-award metadata profiles. The released documents can be accessed here: https://docs.peppol.eu/pracc/

For details about changes in this release consult the changelog notes: https://docs.peppol.eu/pracc/changelog/

The release plan of the pre-award community is illustrated in the following table

Release name Review date Publication date Mandatory date
Spring release 2021 15.03.2021 – 15.04.2021 17.05.2021 na
November release 2021 09.11.2021 – 13.11.2021 17.12.2021 17.12.2021 – The old specifications and identifiers used in P001-P005 will be deprecated at the next release with a separate indication notice.

 

Peppol BIS eDocuments guide for pre-award

Describes the cryptographic specifications needed to execute the pre-award processes

https://docs.peppol.eu/pracc/files/BIS-eDocuments-guide-for-pre-award-v1.2.pdf

Peppol BIS eDelivery guide for pre-award

This document describes the common building blocks to able execution of pre-award processes.

https://docs.peppol.eu/pracc/files/BIS-eDelivery-guide-for-pre-award-v1.2.pdf

 

Peppol BIS Pre-award metadata profiles

P001 – Procurement procedure subscription – 1.1

P002 – Procurement document access – 1.1

P003 – Tender Submission – 1.1

P004 – Call for Tenders Questions and Answers – 1.1

P005 – Tender Clarification 1.1

P006 – Search Notices – 1.1

P007 – Tender Withdrawal – 1.1

P008 – Publish Notice – 1.1

P009 – Notify Awarding – 1.1

 

The documents can be accessed here:

http://docs.peppol.eu/pracc/

Validation artefacts can be downloaded at the bottom of the link mentioned above

 

Peppol BIS Pre-Award catalogue

Peppol BIS Pre-award catalogue is part Tender Submission process

http://docs.peppol.eu/pracc/catalogue/1.0/

 

Peppol BIS ESPD 1.0

Peppol BIS ESPD 1.0 Request is part of Procurement document access process

Peppol BIS ESPD 1.0 Response is part of Tender Submission process

http://docs.peppol.eu/pracc/espd/

 

ESPD Joint Position Paper OpenPeppol & EUPLAT

As a first initiative following the cooperation between OpenPeppol and EUPLAT, a joint position paper on ESPD has been produced to affirm the value of establishing interoperable solutions for ESPD implementations in Europe.

Both parties share a common concern for the individual national implementations of the European standards for e-Tendering, hence the position paper, which aims to showcase and emphasize the mature capability of ESPD to represent a best practice for the implementation of standardized procurement messages in the Pre-Award domain.

Please see the position paper at: OpenPeppol and EUPLAT Position paper .