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Adds buyer fields to the award and contract objects to indicate the buyer(s) for an individual award or contract, if different from the buyer(s) involved in the contracting process as a whole.

OCDS indicates the (lead) buyer in a contracting process with the buyer field. If a contracting process involves multiple buyers, each buyer can be added to the parties array with a 'buyer' role.

However, in some cases, for a given award, a subset of the buyers decide on the supplier and sign the contract. Only use this extension in such cases.

In the European Union, this extension's fields correspond to eForms OPT-300-Contract-Signatory. For correspondences to eForms fields, see OCDS for eForms.

Ejemplo

Contracts

Two contracts are issued with a different buyer for each.

{
  "contracts": [
    {
      "id": "1",
      "awardID": "1",
      "buyer": {
        "name": "Example Department of Transport",
        "id": "GB-GOV-00000000"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "2",
      "awardID": "2",
      "buyer": {
        "name": "Example Department of Education",
        "id": "GB-GOV-12345678"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Awards

One award is issued with two buyers.

{
  "awards": [
    {
      "id": "1",
      "buyers": [
        {
          "name": "Example Department of Education",
          "id": "GB-GOV-12345678"
        },
        {
          "name": "Example Department of Transport",
          "id": "GB-GOV-00000000"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Changelog

2023-04-12

  • Add awards.buyers field.

Issues

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