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Documentation of the Open Contracting for Infrastructure Data Standards (OC4IDS) Toolkit
https://standard.open-contracting.org/infrastructure/
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Add a field to indicate a project's procurement approach #248

Open duncandewhurst opened 3 years ago

duncandewhurst commented 3 years ago

SIF's SOURCE platform includes:

jpmckinney commented 3 years ago

In OCDS, this would usually be communicated as tender/procurementMethodDetails in a planning release, to describe the intended procedure.

From #249: In OCDS, this would broadly fall under the semantics of tender/procurementMethodDetails (the name of the field obviously not being friendly to non-procurement contracts).

We can consider renaming the field for OC4IDS, since its values are broader than in OCDS.

duncandewhurst commented 3 years ago

My understanding is that, in SOURCE, this information relates to planning the project as a whole so there likely wouldn't be any entries in the contractingProcesses array at that stage.

jpmckinney commented 3 years ago

Like #249, I meant in terms of an analogue that can be added to the Project object.

duncandewhurst commented 3 years ago

ANZIP includes a Procurement Approach field which mixes various concepts but includes some values relevant to this issue:

duncandewhurst commented 3 years ago

Like #249, I meant in terms of an analogue that can be added to the Project object.

Adding an example, based on SOURCE's data:

{
  "projects": [
    {
      "procurementMethodDetails": "Unsolicted proposal"
    }
  ]
}