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-2016-18UK 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.