Bids and expressions of interest

Adds a bids object to describe individual bids and expressions of interest, and summary statistics.

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Maintained by Open Contracting Data Standard Extensions

Codelists

bidStatistics.csv

You can download the bidStatistics.csv file in English.

Code	Title	Description
`requests`	Requests to participate	The total number of unique requests to participate received Category bids
`bids`	Bids	The total number of unique bids received (prior to any being discounted for not meeting essential criteria). Category bids
`validBids`	Valid bids	The total number of unique bids received that were considered valid against relevant criteria (either of the bidder, or the bid submission itself). All valid bids are considered during the tender evaluation stage. Category bids
`lowestValidBidValue`	Lowest valid bid value	The value of the lowest valid bid. Category bids
`highestValidBidValue`	Highest valid bid value	The value of the highest valid bid. Category bids
`bidders`	Bidders	The total number of unique organizations or consortia submitting bids (prior to any being discounted for not meeting essential criteria). Category bidders
`qualifiedBidders`	Qualified bidders	The total number of unique organizations or consortia passing the qualification stage of the evaluation process. Category bidders
`disqualifiedBidders`	Disqualified bidders	The total number of unique organizations or consortia that did not pass the qualification stage of the evaluation process. Category bidders
`electronicBids`	Electronic bids	The number of bids received by electronic means. Category EU
`smeBids`	Bids from SMEs	The number of bids received from small and medium-sized enterprises. Category EU
`foreignBids`	Bids from foreign firms	The number of bids received from bidders from outside the country where the tender is issued. Category EU
`foreignBidsFromEU`	Bids from firms in other European Economic Area countries	The number of bids received from tenderers from other European Economic Area countries. Category EU
`foreignBidsFromNonEU`	Bids from firms in non-European Economic Area countries	The number of bids received from tenderers from non-European Economic Area countries. Category EU
`tendersAbnormallyLow`	Tenders excluded because they were abnormally low	The number of tenders excluded because they were abnormally low. Note that in some EU datasets this might have been converted from a boolean, such that a value of 1 would indicate "1 or more" tenders were excluded. Users need to evaluate and interpret data accordingly. Category EU

bidStatus.csv

You can download the bidStatus.csv file in English.

Code	Title	Description
`invited`	Invited	A bid has been invited from the listed tenderer(s).
`pending`	Pending	A bid has been submitted but not yet evaluated.
`valid`	Valid	The submitted bid met the qualification requirements in order to be evaluated.
`disqualified`	Disqualified	The submitted bid did not meet the qualification requirements in order to be evaluated.
`withdrawn`	Withdrawn	The submitted bid was withdrawn by the tenderer(s).