Re: [ubl-dev] UK switching to OCDS

Yes, you are right, Mikkel - the announcement is not about post-award fulfillment/transaction processes. It's about e-tendering and e-notification.

On 13 May 2016 at 14:42, Mikkel Hippe Brun <mhb@tradeshift.com> wrote:

Hi Mark,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

I don't think that OCDS will impact the use of UBL in post-award scenarios (ordering, invoicing etc.).
UBL is already heavily used within the UK National Health Services via OpenPEPPOL (see https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-e-procurement-strategy).

Best
Mikkel

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Mark Ballard <markjballard@googlemail.com> wrote:
You UBL folks may be interested to see this UK government announcement from yesterday.

UK committed to implement OCDS in its 2016-18 Action Plan under the Open Government Partnership.

See page 17 - Commitment 5:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-open-government-national-action-plan-2016-18

UK Crown Commercial Service, the purchasing body handling cross-government framework agreements, will handle all procurements using the Open Contracting Data Standard by October 2016.

All UK government procurement will be done in OCDS by June 2018.

The UK already weakened its link to UBL and the EU's related eSender XML format in March 2015 when it relaunched its Contracts Finder national procurement portal. Private portal operators were have since then been required to transmit any public procurement records to the national portal in a different format to eSender, which until then was the de facto EU procurement standard.

Mark Ballard.

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