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Procurement method rationale classifications

Adds an array to the tender object to classify the procurement method rationale.

Legal context

In the European Union, this extension's fields correspond to eForms BT-136 (Direct Award Justification Code). For correspondences to eForms fields, see OCDS for eForms. For correspondences to Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), see OCDS for the European Union.

Example

{
  "tender": {
    "procurementMethodRationaleClassifications": [
      {
        "id": "D_NO_TENDERS_REQUESTS",
        "description": "No tenders or no suitable tenders/requests to participate in response to a procedure with prior call for competition",
        "scheme": "TED_PT_AWARD_CONTRACT_WITHOUT_CALL"
      },
      {
        "id": "D_FROM_LIQUIDATOR_CREDITOR",
        "description": "Purchase of supplies or services on particularly advantageous terms from the liquidator in an insolvency procedure, an arrangement with creditors or a similar procedure under national laws and regulations",
        "scheme": "TED_PT_AWARD_CONTRACT_WITHOUT_CALL"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Issues

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

Changelog

2023-04-05

• Add 'eu-direct-award-justification' to the +itemClassificationScheme.csv codelist.

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.