Profile BII38 Advanced invitation to tender describes electronic messaging support for the business process of inviting economic operators in a pre-award phase.
The key aspects covered by this profile are:
- The contracting body has decided to invite an economic operator to participate in a pre-award procedure.
- The economic operator decides whether he participates in the tendering process, but no communication needs to be sent back to the contracting body if he decides not to..
In this Profile BII38 Advanced invitation to tender much information about the call for tenders is structured. In BII Profile 52 Invitation to tender, most information is defined in (unstructured) attachments.
This profile BII38 Advanced Invitation to tender is used in an restricted procedure to invite specific (e.g. pre-qualified) economic operators to submit their tenders. If, in an open procedure, all economic operators in the market are to be invited, profile BII22 Advanced Call for Tenders is used instead of this profile.
If the invitation to tender includes a request to submit a pre-award catalogue, profile BII40 Advanced invitation to tender with pre-award catalogue request is used instead of this profile.
This profile is identified in the transactions by the ProfileID urn:www.cenbii.eu:profile:bii52:ver3.0