Documentation

Adds an object to describe other requirements to participate in a contracting process.

Guidance

If you are using the Lots extension, follow its guidance on whether to use tender.lots fields or tender fields.

In the European Union, this extension's fields correspond to eForms BG-705 (Other Requirements), although not all the fields have been implemented yet. For correspondences to Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), see OCDS for the European Union.

Example

Tender

{
  "tender": {
    "otherRequirements": {
      "requiresStaffNamesAndQualifications": true,
      "reservedParticipation": [
        "shelteredWorkshop"
      ],
      "qualificationSystemConditions": [
        "The candidates are required to comply with all the technical and financial requisites listed on the National Procurement portal: https://procurement.example.org/requisites",
        "The candidates are required to create an electronic profile on https://procurement.example.org."
      ],
      "qualificationSystemMethods": [
        "Pre-qualification questionnaire",
        "Standard test, based on the results of the pre-qualification questionnaire"
      ],
      "reductionCriteria": "The candidates will be selected according to their technical, financial and legal capacity to undertake the works described in the present notice. More details on the criteria can be found in section 4.3 of the PCG.",
      "securityClearance": "EU Confidential security clearance of Key Management Personnel must be achieved before access to procurement documents be granted"
    }
  }
}

Lot

{
  "tender": {
    "lots": [
      {
        "id": "LOT-0001",
        "otherRequirements": {
          "requiresStaffNamesAndQualifications": true,
          "reservedParticipation": [
            "shelteredWorkshop"
          ],
          "qualificationSystemConditions": [
            "The candidates are required to comply with all the technical and financial requisites listed on the National Procurement portal: https://procurement.example.org/requisites",
            "The candidates are required to create an electronic profile on https://procurement.example.org."
          ],
          "qualificationSystemMethods": [
            "Pre-qualification questionnaire",
            "Standard test, based on the results of the pre-qualification questionnaire"
          ],
          "reductionCriteria": "The candidates will be selected according to their technical, financial and legal capacity to undertake the works described in the present notice. More details on the criteria can be found in section 4.3 of the PCG.",
          "securityClearance": "EU Confidential security clearance of Key Management Personnel must be achieved before access to procurement documents be granted"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Issues

Report issues for this extension in the ocds-extensions repository, putting the extension's name in the issue's title.

Changelog

2023-03-09

  • Add OtherRequirements.securityClearance field.

2022-03-09

  • Add items to the OtherRequirements.qualificationSystemConditions and OtherRequirements.qualificationSystemMethods objects.

2020-04-24

  • Add minProperties, minItems and/or minLength properties.

This extension was originally discussed as part of the OCDS for EU profile and in pull requests.