A call for tender includes a structured pre-award catalogue request. The economic operator (supplier) that prepares the tender downloads or receive the catalogue request as part of the tendering documents. The pre-award catalogue request is containing descriptions of product and services contracting authority needs in a generic way, e.g. blue pen. Supplier choose their own products or services that fulfils the requirement and make use of a supplier eSubmission system to fill out the requested information as product number, product description, UoM (unit of measure) code, price, link to pictures and labels for environmental and social labels if required and so on. They can reuse generic information the contracting authority (CA) maybe has included in the pre-award catalogue request as classification codes as UNSPSC, CPV or eClass. After finalised the pre-award catalogue they include the catalogue together with other structured documents as ESPD or non-structured documents as PDF in to the system. The system prepares for submission towards the tender systems by sending the bid package to the access point connected.
When contracting authority receive, through their access point, the pre-award catalogues from different suppliers, as part of the bid packages they lock down the offers. When time for open the bids, tendering system import the pre-award catalogue xml files in to their valuation service and find the best offer of products and/or services.
The contracting authority use the pre-award catalogue in their eProcurement system as a basis for the catalogue tool or using the pre-award catalogue in mini-competitions and re-opening of competitions. @SiwMeckelborg
A call for tender includes a structured pre-award catalogue request. The economic operator (supplier) that prepares the tender downloads or receive the catalogue request as part of the tendering documents. The pre-award catalogue request is containing descriptions of product and services contracting authority needs in a generic way, e.g. blue pen. Supplier choose their own products or services that fulfils the requirement and make use of a supplier eSubmission system to fill out the requested information as product number, product description, UoM (unit of measure) code, price, link to pictures and labels for environmental and social labels if required and so on. They can reuse generic information the contracting authority (CA) maybe has included in the pre-award catalogue request as classification codes as UNSPSC, CPV or eClass. After finalised the pre-award catalogue they include the catalogue together with other structured documents as ESPD or non-structured documents as PDF in to the system. The system prepares for submission towards the tender systems by sending the bid package to the access point connected. When contracting authority receive, through their access point, the pre-award catalogues from different suppliers, as part of the bid packages they lock down the offers. When time for open the bids, tendering system import the pre-award catalogue xml files in to their valuation service and find the best offer of products and/or services. The contracting authority use the pre-award catalogue in their eProcurement system as a basis for the catalogue tool or using the pre-award catalogue in mini-competitions and re-opening of competitions. @SiwMeckelborg