open-contracting/european-union-support

BT-769-Lot (Multiple Tenders)

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duncandewhurst commented

This field is effectively a boolean. However, it is mapped to a (new) string field SubmissionTerms.multipleTendersPolicy. Is there a reason not to map it to a boolean field in OCDS?

Also, in keeping with OCDS's terminology, I think the field should be called multipleBids rather than multipleTenders.

jpmckinney commented

I don't think it's a boolean. I uses the permission codelist, which has 3 values: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/concept-scheme/-/resource?uri=http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/permission

We tend to use the Policy suffix for fields that use a permission codelist.

Agree to substitute Bids for Tenders.

duncandewhurst commented

For this field specifically, only the 'allowed' and 'not-allowed' values from the permission codelist are permitted (that's what I meant by effectively a boolean):

The Multiple Tenders business term allows to specify for a given Lot whether a tenderer may submit more than one tender ("allowed") or not ("not-allowed"). This information is marked using the "cbc:MultipleTendersCode" for which only the two previous values of the permission codelist are accepted.

jpmckinney commented

Ah, good catch! (but also what a confusing way to design their schema)

So, yes, the boolean can be named multipleBidsAllowed.

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