A: Pending an updated standard which will have two different, explicit, ABIEs please see Rules R17, R18, R19 and R20 below.
[R17] For the Invitation to Tender it is RECOMMENDED that you create two different Bills of Quantities, one describing the project (Project Decription) with the descriptions and quantities, and the other for prices (Price List).Back to FAQ Index
[R18] For the Tender (Offer) it is RECOMMENDED that your create a Breakdown Statement containing just the prices, and add the "Project Description" Breakdown Statement from the Invitation to Tender for complete information and to calculate the tender amount(s).
[R19] For the Project Description Breakdown Statement the TenderBreakdownStatement/Name SHOULD be "Project Description" AND TenderBreakdownStatement/Type SHOULD be "PRD".
[R20] For the Price List Breakdown Statement the TenderBreakdownStatement/Name SHOULD be "Price List" AND TenderBreakdownStatement/Type SHOULD be "PRI".
A: See Rules R4, R5, and R6 below.
[R4] The Tender SHOULD include the Price List Breakdown Statement (now priced) AND the Project Description Breakdown Statement (not priced) to allow for computation of total prices and/or control the pricing context, for example where the prices in the price list are restricted to this tender.Back to FAQ Index
[R5] The GroupedBasicWorkItem/IDs, or ItemBasicWorkItem/IDs MUST be present AND MUST be the same as the IDs in the Invitation to Tender (details).
[R6] The descriptions SHOULD be repeated in the Tender Breakdown Statement(s) for auditability purposes.
A: See Rules R1 and R2 below.
[R1] In the Project Description Breakdown Statement, ItemBasicWorkItem/TypeCode MUST be "UPR" (from the EBPRT Code List).Back to FAQ Index
[R2] In the Project Description Breakdown Statement, ItemBasicWorkItem/PriceListID MUST be the ItemBasicWorkItem/ID of the referred to item in the Price List Breakdown Statement AND ItemBasicWorkItem/ID/@schemeID MUST be the TenderBreakdownStatement/ID of the Price List Breakdown Statement.
A: See Rule R3 below.
[R3] In the Project Description Breakdown Statement: TotalCalculatedPrice/TypeCode MUST be "INF" (from the EBPRT Code List).Back to FAQ Index
A: The preferred way to deal with items that refer to common descriptions is to use GroupedWorkItems for the common parts of the description so that the full description of a BasicWorkItem is the concatenation of it's "parent" GroupedWorkItems descriptions. The hierarchy of common descriptions in a Description Breakdown Statement and the hierarchy of common descriptions in a Price List Breakdown Statement should be consistent. An alternative way is to reference common description items outside the hierarchy. Also see Rules R7, R8, R9 and R10 below, which apply to both solutions.
[R7] In an Invitation to Tender Details, an ItemBasicWorkItem, or ItemGroupedWorkItem with a common description, the TypeCode MUST be “DES“, from Code List EBWIT, which indicates a description common to all Work Items that reference this Work Item.Back to FAQ Index
[R8] In an Invitation to Tender Details, an ItemBasicWorkItem, or ItemGroupedWorkItem with a common description, the RequestCode MUST be “NTP“ for “not to be priced“."
[R9] An ItemBasicWorkItem, or ItemGroupedWorkItem with a specific price referring to a common description MUST have a Work Item Type “RGD“ which indicates that the description incorporates a common description.
[R10] An ItemBasicWorkItem, or ItemGroupedWorkItem with a specific price referring to a common description MUST have a ReferenceID with a value of the ID of the common description item or GroupedWorkItem to which it refers.
A: The ID is a unique "internal" ID which is used to identify an Item or GroupedWorkItem in a Bill of Quantities. It is not intended that this ID is displayed to users. The PrimaryClassificationCode should define the structure of the project. The AlternativeClassificationCode can be used to index a Breakdown Statement in as many ways as required such as a reference to a Standard Library.
[R23] To display an Item Reference to users you SHOULD use PrimaryClassificationCode and SHOULD NOT use ID.Back to FAQ Index
[R24] The PrimaryClassificationCode SHOULD define the structure of the project. By default, the structure is based on the hierarchy of the Bill of Quantities and the PrimaryClassificationCode SHOULD be consistent with this hierarchy.
[R25] The AlternativeClassificationCode MAY be used to index a Breakdown Statement in as many ways as required.
A: They are used to link the item offered to that in the tender and data in a database. Rules R11 and R12 below apply.
[R11] Item ID's MUST be unique for the issuer and mention the corresponding Code List Scheme adopted.Back to FAQ Index
[R12] Item ID's MUST be unique in the identification scheme to which they refer.
A: A naming convention has been proposed, concatenating the following parameters: Procurement Project ID (with a 12 character limit), Lot number (LotNN), Variant number (VarianteNN), Bidder ID (with a 12 character limit), VXY: V+ version number, .ZZZ: file extension (.xml for ebXML documents). See Rules R13, R14 and R15 below.
[R13] It is RECOMMENDED that this naming convention is used until a format is internationally agreed.Back to FAQ Index
[R14] The parameters in the filename SHOULD be separated by an underscore ( _ ) character with the exception of the file extension which MUST be preceded by a decimal point character (.).
[R15] It is RECOMMENDED that the filename, excluding the file extension, is given in TenderInvitationDocument/ID and TenderDocument/ID.
A: A file containing all EdiBuild Code Lists is included in the XML Schema Pack.
[R16] In some cases there are several Code Lists can be used. Therefore for all code Elements, the attributes "list Name" and "List Agency Name" MUST be included.Back to FAQ Index
A: Please see table below.
Code values to use at the Breakdown Statement level (only yellow parts are mandatory) | |||
Case 1: Project description and Price list (including item descriptions) are in separate Breakdown Statements | |||
Case 2: Project description and Price list are merged in a single Breakdown Statement | |||
Document Type | Breakdown Statement Type Code (Code List EBBQT) | Tendering Request Code (Code List EBREQ) | Information Status (NOTE SUPERSEDED ELEMENT. NOW ASSOCIATED ABIE. NO CODE LIST.] |
List of common code values | PRD (Project description) | TBR (To be returned) | Quantified and priced |
PRI (Price list) | NTR (Not to be returned) | Quantified and unpriced | |
PDP (Project description and price list) | TBQ (To be quantified) | Not quantified and unpriced | |
NTQ (Not to be quantified) | Not quantified and priced | ||
TBP (To be priced) | |||
NTP (Not to be priced) | |||
InvitationToTenderDetails (Case 1) | PRD (Project description) | TBR (To be returned) or NTR (Not to be returned) (default value) and | Quantified and unpriced (default value) |
TBQ (To be quantified) or NTQ (not to be quantified) (default value) and | Not quantified and unpriced | ||
NTP (Not to be priced) (default value) | |||
PRI (Price list) | TBP (To be priced) | Not quantified and Unpriced (default value) | |
InvitationToTenderDetails (Case 2) | PDP (Project description and Price list) | TBP (To be priced) | Unpriced (default value), quantified; (default value) or Not Quantified |
Tender (Case 1) | Project description should not be returned | ||
PRI (Price list) | Priced | ||
Tender (Case 2) | PDP (Project description and Price list) | Priced | |
Coded values are available in the Code Lists spreadsheet included in the EdiBuild Europe e-Tendering Bundle. | |||
Yellow = mandatory | |||
The code values at Grouped Work Item or Basic Work Item levels are needed only if different from the upper level values. |
A: Unit Prices go in UnitCalculatedPrice/ChargeAmount elements and Total Prices go in TotalCalculatedPrice/ChargeAmount elements at the relevant level within the Breakdown Statement.
A: A Lump Sum can be indicated in the Unit of Measure and/or the Price Type. If the Bidder is required to submit a Lump Sum price for an item then the Unit of Measure in the Item Description will be a Lump Sum Item (Case 1). If the item has a quantity and unit of measure e.g. m2 but the Bidder wants to indicate that his price for that item is a Lump Sum (rather than a rate), and is therefore not dependent on the quantity, then he indicates that by marking the Price as a Lump Sum (Case 2). These two Cases are are dealt with in Rules R21 and R22 below.
[R21] Case 1: In the Invitation to Tender Details Breakdown Statement ItemBasicWorkItem/TotalQuantity MUST be 1 AND ItemBasicWorkItem/TotalQuantity/@unitCode="LS". In the Tender Breakdown Statement the UnitCalculatedPrice/ChargeAmount MUST be 0 (nil) AND TotalCalculatedPrice/ChargeAmount MUST be the lump sum amount.Back to FAQ Index
[R22] Case 2: In the Invitation to Tender Details Breakdown Statement ItemBasicWorkItem/TotalQuantity SHOULD be the appropriate quantity AND ItemBasicWorkItem/TotalQuantity/@unitCode SHOULD be the appropriate Unit of Measure. In the Tender Breakdown Statement the UnitCalculatedPrice/ChargeAmount MUST be 0 (nil) AND TotalCalculatedPrice/ChargeAmount MUST be the lump sum amount AND TotalCalculatedPrice/TypeCode MUST be "LSI" (from Code List EBPRT).
A: Use code values "STR" or "NST" (from Code List EBREQ) in the RequestCode element.