Award criteria breakdown

Adds an award criteria array to the Lot and LotGroup objects, to break down award criteria by price, cost and quality.

Legal context

In the European Union, this extension's fields correspond to eForms BG-707 (Award Criteria).For correspondences to eForms fields, see OCDS for eForms. For correspondences to Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), see OCDS for the European Union.

Directive 2014/24/EU Article 67(5) describes weightings and orders of importance.

Examples

Lots

Weight

The award criteria for the lot are 50% service quality and 50% price.

{
  "tender": {
    "lots": [
      {
        "id": "1",
        "awardCriteria": {
          "criteria": [
            {
              "type": "quality",
              "name": "Service quality",
              "numbers": [
                {
                  "number": 50,
                  "weight": "percentageExact"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "type": "price",
              "name": "Price",
              "numbers": [
                {
                  "number": 50,
                  "weight": "percentageExact"
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Fixed

The price of the lot is fixed at $100,000, such that tenderers compete on quality only.

{
  "tender": {
    "lots": [
      {
        "id": "1",
        "awardCriteria": {
          "criteria": [
            {
              "type": "price",
              "name": "Fixed price",
              "numbers": [
                {
                  "number": 100000,
                  "fixed": "total"
                },
                {
                  "number": 0,
                  "weight": "decimalExact"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "type": "quality",
              "name": "Service quality",
              "numbers": [
                {
                  "number": 1,
                  "weight": "decimalExact"
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Lot group

The award criteria for the lot group is 100% price.

{
  "tender": {
    "lotGroups": [
      {
        "id": "1",
        "awardCriteria": {
          "criteria": [
            {
              "type": "price",
              "name": "Price",
              "numbers": [
                {
                  "number": 100,
                  "weight": "percentageExact"
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Issues

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

Changelog

2022-04-25

• Add expressions of interest to the criterionThreshold.csv code descriptions.
• Generalize AwardCriterionNumber to CriterionNumber for reuse in other extensions.

2022-02-27

• Add LotGroup.awardCriteria field.

2020-04-24

• Add minProperties, minItems and/or minLength properties.

This model was discussed in eForms/eForms#119, OP-TED/ePO#157 and OP-TED/ePO#203. This extension was originally discussed as part of the OCDS for EU profile, in pull requests and in open-contracting/standard#443.