Procurement & Tendering
Tenders, bids, awards (incl. public procurement)
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Incomplete
4 bundles · 7 layers · 0 findings · 0 questions
solicitation Announcing the competition
notice
tender publication, lots and criteria
clarification
questions, answers and addenda
bidding Competing
submission
sealed bids and attachments
evaluation
compliance checks and scoring
award Deciding
decision
award, standstill and notification
challenge
protests and their outcomes
assurance Securing performance
security
bid and performance bonds and guarantees
Note: Legacy card: layers named, findings and questions never written.
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- World Models
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- standalone-mm
- Navigation path
- NAV.SOC.ECO.PRC2
- Domain
- SOC.ECO.PRC2
- Industry
- Cross-industry
- Tags
- procurementsoc.eco.prc2
- Also called
- O7
What it is Derived, awaiting review
This meta-model describes how organizations buy through competition: tenders and their lots, clarifications, sealed bids, evaluation against published criteria, awards and their challenges, and the securities that back performance.
Note: First sentence of the legacy card introduction.
Why it exists Filled
Tenders, bids, awards (incl. public procurement)
Distinguishing features Derived, awaiting review
- It is its own model because the competitive process has strict sequencing and confidentiality rules that no general agreement model provides, and it ends where the contract model begins.
What robots and AI may and may not do Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Moral aspects Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Owners Filled
Steward
The procuring organization owns the tender file; each bidder owns its bid until opening under the sealed custody contract; public tenders additionally carry registration and publication duties via the public register.
Links to other meta-models Filled
references
- world.organization - procurers and bidders; individual bidders via world.person (H1).
- world.priceValuation - estimates and benchmark prices inform criteria and evaluation.
- world.publicRegister - public tenders are registered and their notices published there.
- world.disputeResolution - challenges are heard there.
- world.stewardship - ownership and access grants over the tender file and bids.
- world.accessGrant - ownership and access grants over the tender file and bids.
composes
- world.commercialContract - the award concludes in an agreement modelled there.
- world.auditTrail - audit facets on submission, opening, evaluation and award events.
imports
- ocds - ALIGN: open contracting data model for the public view of tenders and awards.
- uncitral - ALIGN: procurement law vocabulary for procedures and standstill.
requires
- vr.wm-pol-010
- vr.wm-pol-013
- vr.wm-pol-014
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Incomplete
Identity and identifiers required Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Institutional or informational subject: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Capabilities and actions required Derived, awaiting review
- tenderPublished: the competition was announced with criteria and deadlines.
- clarificationIssued: a question was answered or an addendum published to all bidders.
- bidSubmitted: a sealed bid entered custody.
- bidsOpened: seals were broken after the deadline, in the recorded order.
- evaluationCompleted: scoring and compliance findings were finalized.
- awardAnnounced: the decision was notified and the standstill window opened.
- awardChallenged: a protest was lodged against the decision.
- bondPosted: a bid or performance security was put in place.
Legacy events listed as state transitions.
Hazards and failure modes optional Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Standards and interfaces required Derived, awaiting review
- sealedBidCustody: bids are held unreadable by everyone, including the procurer, until the opening event.
- publicNoticeFeed: open publication of notices, criteria and awards for public tenders.
- bidderWorkroomAccess: each bidder reads the tender file and its own bid only.
- auditorAccess: full-file access for auditors and challenge forums.
- openContractingView: notices, criteria, awards and winning values for public tenders; omits losing bids' commercial content.
- bidderView: the tender file, own bid and own scores after debrief; omits competitors' bids.
- evaluationMinute: the complete internal evaluation record; omits nothing, access tightly restricted.
Context of use required Filled
- Access is granted by the respective owners under the S1/S2 models of this catalogue.
Sources Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Open questions
- Superseded by a researched world model? Map this legacy card to its successor or retire it.
Machine files
Provenance
legacy MMAS card (world-models v0.2) · legacy
Built from: models/world-o7-procurement-and-tendering/spec.yaml, models/docs/organizations/O7-procurement-and-tendering.md