Any natural or legal person or public entity or group of such persons and/or entities, including any temporary association of undertakings, which offers the execution of works and/or a work, the supply of products or the provision of services on the market. Information about the party submitting the qualification. A placeholder for the data related to only one Economic Operator (EO) that tenders solely to a procurement project, to one of the EOs that tender as part of a group (e.g. a Consortium), or to one possible sub-contractor of the EO. Consortia grouping more than one EO need to draft and submit as many ESPDResponses as Economic Operators and sub-contractors participate in the tender.

Cardinality
1..1
Namespace
espd-cac urn:grow:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:ESPD-CommonAggregateComponents-1
Child elements
Card Name Description
0..1 espd-cbc:SMEIndicator

SME indicator
Indicates whether the economic operator can be categorized as an SME (true) or not.According to the EC, SME are enterprises with less than 250 employees, a turnover less than EUR 50 m and a balance sheet total less than EUR 43 m.

Example value: false

0..n espd-cac:RepresentativeNaturalPerson

Representative Natural person
Information about individuals who in one way or the other represent the economic operator.

1..1 cac:Party

Party

Rules
Identifier/Error message Flag
EHF-ESPD-RES-B05101
Element 'cac:Party' MUST be provided.
fatal
EHF-ESPD-RES-B05102
Document MUST NOT contain elements not part of the data model.
fatal
Description

The economic operator must be identified in a ESPD Response, hence information about the party is required, such as party name, identification, endpoint id, and country.

Information on representative is not mandatory.

Example of economic operator
<espd-cac:EconomicOperatorParty>
    <espd-cbc:SMEIndicator>false</espd-cbc:SMEIndicator>
    <espd-cac:RepresentativeNaturalPerson>
        <espd-cbc:NaturalPersonRoleDescription>Daglig leder</espd-cbc:NaturalPersonRoleDescription>
        <cac:PowerOfAttorney>
            <cac:AgentParty>
                <cac:Person>
                    <cbc:FirstName>Jens</cbc:FirstName>
                    <cbc:FamilyName>Jensen</cbc:FamilyName>
                    <cac:ResidenceAddress>
                        <cbc:CityName>Oslo</cbc:CityName>
                        <cac:Country>
                            <cbc:IdentificationCode listID="CountryCodeIdentifier" listAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW" listName="CountryCodeIdentifier" listVersionID="1.0.2">NO</cbc:IdentificationCode>
                        </cac:Country>
                    </cac:ResidenceAddress>
                </cac:Person>
            </cac:AgentParty>
        </cac:PowerOfAttorney>
    </espd-cac:RepresentativeNaturalPerson>
    <cac:Party>
        <cbc:EndpointID schemeID="NO:ORGNR">987654325</cbc:EndpointID>
        <cac:PartyIdentification>
            <cbc:ID schemeID="National_Number">987654325</cbc:ID>
        </cac:PartyIdentification>
        <cac:PartyName>
            <cbc:Name>Edisys</cbc:Name>
        </cac:PartyName>
        <cac:PostalAddress>
            <cbc:StreetName>Hovedgaten 32</cbc:StreetName>
            <cbc:CityName>Bergen</cbc:CityName>
            <cbc:PostalZone>1234</cbc:PostalZone>
            <cac:Country>
                <cbc:IdentificationCode listID="CountryCodeIdentifier" listAgencyID="EU-COM-GROW" listName="CountryCodeIdentifier" listVersionID="1.0.2">NO</cbc:IdentificationCode>
            </cac:Country>
        </cac:PostalAddress>
    </cac:Party>
</espd-cac:EconomicOperatorParty>