Re: [ubl-dev] UK switching to OCDS

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

At 2016-05-13 16:21 +0100, Mark Ballard wrote:
> Yes, you are right, Mikkel - the announcement is
> not about post-award fulfillment/transaction
> processes. It's about e-tendering and e-notification.

Work is underway in UBL 2.2 to add around 17 new pre-award document types.

If attention to this can be brought to those
looking for new or different pre-award document
types, now is the time to get requirements in for
consideration (using the public comment list).

. . . . . . .  Ken

> On 13 May 2016 at 14:42, Mikkel Hippe Brun
> <<mailto:mhb@tradeshift.com>mhb@tradeshift.com> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Thanks for bringing this to our attention.Â
>
> 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>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-e-procurement-strategy).
>
> Best
> Mikkel
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Mark Ballard
> <<mailto:markjballard@googlemail.com>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>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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