Qualification Operations

When auction is over the qualification process starts. The status of tender is active.qualification then. Right after results are submitted to Central DB, there is award generated for auction winner.

Listing awards

The pending award can be retrieved via request to list all awards available:

GET /tenders/64e93250be76435397e8c992ed4214d1/awards

The award is with pending status meaning the fact that procuring entity has to review documents describing the bid and other bidder documents.

Disqualification

The protocol of Qualification Committee decision should be uploaded as document into award and later its status should switch to either active (if it is accepted) or unsuccessful (if rejected).

POST /tenders/64e93250be76435397e8c992ed4214d1/awards/{}/documents

The Qualification Comittee can upload several documents, like decisions to prolong the qualification process to allow the bidder to collect all necessary documents or correct errors. Such documents would help to have procedure as transparent as possible and will reduce risk of cancellation by Complaint Review Body.

PATCH /tenders/64e93250be76435397e8c992ed4214d1/awards/{} HTTP/1.1

{
    "data":{
        "awardStatus": "unsuccessful"
    }
}
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Location: /tenders/64e93250be76435397e8c992ed4214d1/awards/ea36a10ad89649ccac253f23d8e0e80d HTTP/1.1

Note that after award rejection the next bid in the value-sorted bid sequence becomes subject of subsequent award. For convenience you can use the Location response header from the response above that is pointing award in “pending” state.

Contract Awarding

Protocol upload:

POST /tenders/64e93250be76435397e8c992ed4214d1/awards/{}/documents

Confirming the Award:

PATCH /tenders/64e93250be76435397e8c992ed4214d1/awards/{} HTTP/1.1

{
    "data":{
        "awardStatus": "active"
    }
}
HTTP/1.1 200 OK

The procuring entity can wait until bidder provides all missing documents (licenses, certificates, statements, etc.) or update original bid documents to correct errors. Alternatively they can reject the bid if documents provided does not satisfy the pass/fail criterias of tender (even before full package of supplementary documents is available).

Influence of Complaint Satisfaction

If decision of the procuring entity is considered unfair any bidder can file complaint and after proper review the whole awarding process can start from the award in question. When Complaint Review Body satifies the complaint, all awards registered in the system that were issued (including the one that complaint was filed against) are cancelled (switch to cancelled status). New pending award is generated and Procuring Entity is obliged to qualify it again, taking into consideration recommendations in the report of Complaint Review Body.