Covered By

This extension adds a field to indicate the international legal instruments that the contracting process is covered by.

For example, the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) is a treaty that requires members to indicate whether a contracting process is covered by it. The Clean Vehicles Directive is a legal act that provides for member states of the European Union to indicate associated information in procurement notices. The coveredBy field should be used to meet such requirements.

To disclose the laws or regulations that govern the contracting process and that grant legal authority to the procuring entity, use the legalBasis extension instead.

Guidance

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

If you need to refer to a treaty that is not in the coveredBy codelist:

1. If the treaty has a national or subnational scope, pick a relevant ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g "CA" for Canada).
2. If the treaty has a subnational scope, pick a relevant ISO 3166-2 region code (e.g "NT" for Northern Territories, a province of Canada).
3. Concatenate the code(s) to the acronym of the treaty, separating each part with a dash (e.g "CA-NT-BIP").
4. Add this code to the coveredBy array.
5. Document the new code (see Extending open codelists).

Legal context

The Revised Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) includes: "each notice of intended procurement shall include … l. an indication that the procurement is covered by this Agreement."

The European Union is a party to the GPA, and as such its Directive 2014/24/EU (Public contracts — setting out clear ground rules) includes: "Part C: Information to be included in contract notices … 29. Indication whether the contract is covered by the GPA."

Example

The coveredBy field is an array of strings, whose values are selected from the coveredBy.csv open codelist.

Tender

{
  "tender": {
    "coveredBy": [
      "GPA"
    ]
  }
}

Lot

{
  "tender": {
    "lots": [
      {
        "id": "LOT-0001",
        "coveredBy": [
          "EU-CVD"
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

Issues

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

Changelog

2024-10-08

• Add 'EU-FSR' to the coveredBy codelist.

2024-02-07

• Add 'CPTPP' to the coveredBy codelist.

2023-03-02

• Add 'EU-CVD' to the coveredBy codelist.
• Add coveredBy to the Lot object.

2020-11-04

• Add guidance on the creation of new codes for the coveredBy codelist.

2020-04-24

• Add minProperties, minItems and/or minLength properties.