Bid opening

Adds an object to describe the date, time, place and other details of the public bid opening.

This extension must be used with the Location extension.

Guidance

If you are using the Lots extension, follow its guidance on whether to use tender.lots fields or tender fields.

Legal context

In the European Union, this extension's fields correspond to eForms BT-132 (Public Opening Date), BT-133 (Public Opening Place), BT-134 (Public Opening Description). For correspondences to Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), see OCDS for the European Union.

Example

Tender

{
  "tender": {
    "bidOpening": {
      "date": "2019-10-16T15:00:00+01:00",
      "address": {
        "streetAddress": "Town Hall, St Aldate's",
        "region": "Oxfordshire",
        "locality": "Oxford",
        "postalCode": "OX1 1BX",
        "countryName": "United Kingdom"
      },
      "location": {
        "description": "Central Oxford",
        "geometry": {
          "type": "Point",
          "coordinates": [
            51.751944,
            -1.257778
          ]
        },
        "gazetteer": {
          "scheme": "GEONAMES",
          "identifiers": [
            "2640729"
          ]
        },
        "uri": "http://www.geonames.org/2640729/oxford.html"
      },
      "description": "We recommend that people who wish to attend the opening register on this page: https://wwww.example.org/register"
    }
  }
}

Lots

{
  "tender": {
    "lots": [
      {
        "id": "1",
        "bidOpening": {
          "date": "2019-10-16T15:00:00+01:00",
          "address": {
            "streetAddress": "Town Hall, St Aldate's",
            "region": "Oxfordshire",
            "locality": "Oxford",
            "postalCode": "OX1 1BX",
            "countryName": "United Kingdom"
          },
          "location": {
            "description": "Central Oxford",
            "geometry": {
              "type": "Point",
              "coordinates": [
                51.751944,
                -1.257778
              ]
            },
            "gazetteer": {
              "scheme": "GEONAMES",
              "identifiers": [
                "2640729"
              ]
            },
            "uri": "http://www.geonames.org/2640729/oxford.html"
          },
          "description": "We recommend that people who wish to attend the opening register on this page: https://wwww.example.org/register"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Issues

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

Changelog

2023-06-07

• Clarify that the extension is for bid openings that are public events.

2023-02-13

• Add Lot.bidOpening field.

2020-04-24

• Add minProperties, minItems and/or minLength properties.

This extension was originally discussed as part of the OCDS for EU profile, in pull requests and in open-contracting/standard#749.