CEN/TC 440/WG 5 - e-Catalogue

The purpose of this deliverable is to specify and describe choreographies for exchanging an electronic product catalogue (“catalogues”) as part of the business processes in the pre-award and post-award area, so that catalogues can serve as a basis for placing orders as well as evaluating tenders. The key aspects covered by this choreography specification are:
-   processes for submitting catalogues from the selling to the buying side;
-   processes for submitting catalogue-related data as part of a tendering process;
-   processes integrating sell-side procurement systems.
This document does not apply to the transactions used in the specified choreographies. These transactions are specified in EN 17015 2. The relationship between the choreographies and the transaction is described in Clause 8.
The identifier of this choreographies document is EN 17015 1:2024.
How to claim compliance to this choreography is specified in 6.2.3.

The  CEN/TC  440/WG5  has  developed  a  set  of  deliverables  to  support  interoperability  in  the  pre- and  post-award areas of public procurement. In particular, the deliverables cover the exchange of electronic product catalogues and related  documents  between  contracting  bodies  and  economic  operators  respectively  buyers  and  sellers.  An  electronic product catalogue contains specifications of products (goods and services) with their pricing. A catalogue is used to serve as a basis for ordering and all other following post-award processes. To ensure interoperability each electronic communication will be described as follows:
• A choreography describes the sequence of transactions;
• A transaction describes all information elements exchanged between business partners;
• A syntax implementation guideline (SIG) provides the syntax bindings needed to implement the transaction.

This document describes the transaction information requirements of the transactions used in the basic
collaborations described in EN 17015-1 Electronic Public Procurement – Catalogue – Choreographies.
For each transaction there is an overview, the transaction business requirements and the transaction information requirements model containing definitions of terms, usage descriptions and cardinality of the information elements.
The document describes the following transactions:
1) Catalogue;
2) Catalogue Response
3) Pre-award Catalogue Request
4) Pre-award Catalogue
5) Shopping Cart
How to claim compliance to a transaction is described in paragraph 6.
How to claim conformance to a transaction is described in paragraph 6.