Contract signatories

Adds a signatories array to the contract object, for when the signatories differ from the buyer for the contracting process and the suppliers for the award.

In OCDS, the signatories to a contract are not explicitly declared in the contracts section. Instead, the signatories are implicitly assumed to be the buyer and the suppliers in the award associated to the contract.

In some types of contracting processes, there can be additional signatories to the contract, or the signatories to the contract can differ from those specified in buyer and suppliers.

Use this extension only if the signatories to a contract differ from its related award's suppliers and the contracting process' buyer. If that is the case, list all signatories to the contract, including the buyer and suppliers.

Guidance

Each signatory should have an associated entry in the parties section.

Example

A contract with a third signatory, in addition to the buyer and supplier:

{
  "buyer": {
    "name": "Ministry of Communications",
    "id": "GB-GOV-12345678"
  },
  "awards": [
    {
      "id": "1",
      "suppliers": [
        {
          "name": "Example Consortium",
          "id": "GB-COH-00000000"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "contracts": [
    {
      "id": "1",
      "awardID": "1",
      "signatories": [
        {
          "name": "Ministry of Communications",
          "id": "GB-GOV-12345678"
        },
        {
          "name": "Example Consortium",
          "id": "GB-COH-00000000"
        },
        {
          "name": "Telecommunications UK",
          "id": "GB-GOV-99999999"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Issues

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

Changelog

2020-04-24

• Add minProperties, minItems and/or minLength properties.