Participation Fees

Where a tender process involves payment of fees to access documents, submit a proposal, or be awarded a contract, this extension can be used to provide fee details.

To use this extension, add this URL to your package's extensions array:

Maintained by Open Contracting Data Standard Extensions

Schema

You can download the release-schema.json file in English.

ParticipationFee

The extension defines a new ParticipationFee object with these fields:

Field	Title	Description	Type(s)
`id`	Fee ID	A local identifier for this fee, unique within this block. This field is used to keep track of multiple revisions of a fee through the compilation from release to record mechanism.	string
`type`	Fee type	The type of this fee.	array of strings from closed participationFeeType codelist
`value`	Value	The monetary value of this fee.	Value object
`description`	Description	Additional information about this fee, for example: the specific cases in which the fee is applicable (e.g. hard copies of documents only), the way in which the fee is levied, or the exact nature of the fee.	string
`methodOfPayment`	Method(s) of payment	The accepted ways in which fees can be paid.	array of strings from open methodOfPayment codelist

Tender

The extension defines these fields in the Tender object from OCDS:

Field	Title	Description	Type(s)
`participationFees`	Participation fees	Any fees applicable to bidders wishing to participate in the tender process. Fees can apply for accessing bidding documents or for submitting bids, or there can be a "win fee" payable by the successful bidder.	array of ParticipationFee objects