Changelog

T021 - Unsubscribe from procedure and T022 - Unsubscribe from procedure confirmation were added as new eTendering transactions. The transactions provide electronic messaging support for the process to unsubscribe from a procedure. Profile identifiers and Transaction identifers of T001 and T002 have been raised to 1.2.0 due to the new profile feature.

The xsi:type of the rim:Slot[@name='Minimum'] and rim:Slot[@name='Maximum'] of rim:Slot[@name='EstimatedValue'] in T011 was changed from rim:FloatValueType to rim:IntegerValueType. The corresponding Business Rule PEPPOL-T011-R046 has been adjusted.

New field NoticePublicationDatePreferred added in T015 to support eForms usage. Corresponding Business Rules have been added.

The BIS P010 Tendering Message Response - 1.1 was added as a new eTendering profile. The profile provides electronic messaging support for the process to notify of errors in the provided message to the sender. The profile can only be used to communicate technical difficulties.

The BIS P011 Qualification - 1.1 was added as a new eTendering profile. The profile provides electronic messaging support for the business process of qualifying for a tendering process in a restricted procedure. The profile is executed between a contracting body or his representative and a publication body to announce business opportunities.

The new guideline describes the choreography to execute open procedures using Peppol. Thus, the Notification & Open Procedure Guideline is a procedural specification. The guideline does not define individual transactions but it refers to Peppol several BISs and underlying standards, in which the transactions and the transaction information requirements are listed and defined.

CENBII T004 rules, CENBII T005 rules, CENBII T006 rules have been integrated into a new set of PEPPOL rules. Rules have been renamed, removed or modified.

Since the new transactions in P001, the removal of the CENBII schematrons, a changed rim:ValueType in P006 and the new field in P008 are breaking changes, the version number of profiles, transactions and rules has been raised from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0.

Updated BIS eDelivery guide for pre-award - Version 1.3

Updated BIS eDocuments guide for pre-award - Version 1.3

P001 - P011

The structure of profile identifers and specification identifiers has been changed and aligned with Peppol Post-Award. The new BIS P006-P009 (see below) adopt the same structure. References to years and CEN BII transactions were removed to get a short, clear and comprehensive structure:

The use of scheme identifiers for electronic address identifiers and party identification has been changed from rule based schemeIDs to code list based scheme identifiers to align better with the methods used in Peppol Post-Award. The new BIS P006-P009 (see below) adopt the same structure. Corresponding examples are given in the documents. Scheme identifiers for endpoints and parties are now adopted from the following code lists:

Since the new profile identifers and specification identifiers are a breaking change, the version number has been raised from 1.0.1 to 1.1.0 in all specification and profile IDs. The new BIS P006-P009 (see below) adopt the same version number.

The BIS P006 Search Notices - 1.1 was added as a new eTendering profile. The profile provides electronic messaging support for the business process to retrieve a bulk download of relevant notices from a publisher by any interested party.

The BIS P006 Search Notices - 1.1 was added as a new eTendering profile. The profile provides electronic messaging support for the business process of the withdrawal of a tender or of participation in a tendering process by an economic operator.

The BIS P006 Search Notices - 1.1 was added as a new eTendering profile. The profile provides electronic messaging support for the business process to publish a prior information notice, a contract notice or a contract award notice. The profile is executed between a contracting body or his representative and a publication body to announce business opportunities and contract awards in public procurement procedures.

The BIS P006 Search Notices - 1.1 was added as a new eTendering profile. The profile provides electronic messaging support for the business process of notification by a contracting body that a contract has been awarded to a particular economic operator.

Essentially editorial changes were made to the profiles to consolidate the validity of the content. No substantial changes or new features were added. All links and references to external and internal documents have been checked for validity and availability, and they have been updated if necessary. The Implementation Guidelines section of the profiles has been reworked to increase the comprehensibility of the implementation of a profile according to the underlying specifications, standards and schemas. Since the eSENS project does not longer exist and PEPPOL maintains and updates the pre-award specifications now and in the future, references to the eSENS project (in profiles, transactions, schematron rules, syntax mappings and code lists) were removed to reduce confusion and contradictory statements in respect to the specifications.

The Profile P004 - "Call for Tenders Questions and Answers" was added as a new eTendering profile. The profile describes a process providing electronic messaging support for the business process of answering questions of economic operators about a call for tenders. Thereby the profile supports contracting authorities to distribute answers to all economic operators having expressed their interest in the procedure.

The Profile P005 - "Tender Clarification" was added as a new eTendering profile. The profile describes a process providing electronic messaging support for the business process of answering questions of contracting authorities about a tender. Thus, this profile supports the contracting authority to clarify questions on a tender which has been submitted by an economic operator.