Tenders

[markbrough]

Description Tenders are the individual contracts or proposals that have been put out to invite bids from companies or organisations that want to provide goods and services for an activity. This is only expected if the activity is at least in the implementation phase, and if the aid type is not budget support.

Existing tests

document-link/category[@code='A10'] exists (if activity-status/@code is at least 2 and (default-aid-type/@code or transaction/aid-type/@code is not A01))?

Issues No issues have been identified.

2016 Aid Transparency Index test We are not planning to change this test in 2016.

[jamieattard]

The guidance indicates that 'For private foundations, calls for grant submissions are accepted.’ Is there any hope therefore that this year we are acknowledged for this practice?

[markbrough]

Hi @jamieattard --

Calls for grant submissions are accepted. We accepted the Gate Foundation's Grant Opportunities page for the tenders indicator last year, in the manual survey.

To score in IATI data for this indicator, each activity should be linked to the relevant Grant Opportunity for that activity, as a document link, and tagged with document category code A10 (tenders). Activities need to be linked to the specific relevant document. E.g. for activities responding to the "Agriculture-Nutrition Impact Studies" RFP, those activities should have a document-link looking something like:

<document-link url="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/General-Information/Grant-Opportunities/Agriculture-Nutrition-Impact-Studies" format="text/html">
 <title>
  <narrative>Agriculture-Nutrition Impact Studies RFP</narrative>
 </title>
 <category code="A10" />
 <language code="en" />
</document-link>

[cmmarschner]

What about groups (such as MCC) that gives grants to countries for them to procure their own services?

[markbrough]

Thanks for all of the comments.

For the 2016 Aid Transparency Index

This test will remain the same as in previous years.