Is Catalogue provisioning a kind of contract forming?

[Jan Algermissen <algermissen1971@mac.com>]

I saw yesterday that a contract needs to be acknowledged by the receiver. Is that an essential part of the sourcing process?

Could this acknowledgement be 'skipped'?

I am asking because I am using UBL for a little 'experiment'[1][2] and would like to avoid bending the intended UBL semantics too much.

In this particular case, I plan to make a catalogue available as a Web resource and while the catalogue creation can be requested by the client (the receiver) it would be kind of odd to send an ack message to the server (the provider) to indicate agreement to the catalogue.

OTH, if that agreement is vital I would still like to include it in my experiment.

BTW: I is there any material that covers such issues or is that common procurement knowledge (that I just happen to lack)?

Jan

[1] http://www.nordsc.com/blog/?p=202
[2] http://www.nordsc.com/blog/?p=204




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