The Public Procurement Services Platform incorporates new fields to prepare for integration with the Public Contract Register

On 22/05/2024, the following services were added to the Public Procurement Services Platform: eLicita a new version of the services that incorporates changes and new functionalities. At the end of this publication you can find the version's new features document with details of all the additions.

The main one is that the new fields detailed below are added to the Publication Manager forms, with the aim of preparing the functionality of integrating this tool with the Public Contracts Registry, which is planned to be implemented during the summer of 2024 and from which, those publications that contain all the necessary mandatory data, can be automatically sent to the RPC.

New fields and validations:

  • Type of supplies
  • BIM methodology (not mandatory for the local scope of the service)
  • Price review
  • Country of origin of the product
  • Linguistic clause
  • Ethics clause
  • Studies and opinions (not mandatory for the local scope of the service)
  • Social technical prescriptions
  • Environmental technical prescriptions
  • Unit price
  • Main CPV / secondary CPVs
  • Offers/Awarded companies/Contracting companies – Country
  • Tenders/Awarded companies/Contracting companies – Municipality
  • Offers – Not open
  • Tenders/Awarded companies/Contracting companies – Third sector
  • Tenders/Awarded companies/Contracting companies – UTE – Company name
  • Offers/Awarded companies/Contracting companies – UTE – Country
  • Tenders/Awarded companies/Contracting companies – UTE – Municipality
  • Extension – Identifier of the extension
  • Extension – Has several types of VAT
  • Extension – VAT percentage
  • Extension – Amount awarded with VAT
  • Extension – Identifier of the extension
  • Modification – Identifier of the modification
  • Other action execution – Identifier other action execution
  • Other performance execution – Identifier other contractual performance
  • Settlement – ​​Contract evaluation report (not mandatory for the local scope of the service)
  • New rules for existing fields required for integration with RPC:
    • Mandatory field of Extension - Amount awarded
    • Mandatory field of Extension – VAT adjudication amount
    • Obligation of the Extension field – Extension start date
    • Compulsory field of Extension – Extension end date
    • Mandatory field Liquidation - Final price
    • Mandatory field Liquidation – Resolution date
    • It is not possible to overlap two extensions based on the start/end date of execution
    • The execution actions "Modification", "Extension" and "Other execution actions" must have a unique identifier
    • Settlement: The date of receipt must be less than or equal to the settlement date

Fields will initially be included in this release on a non-mandatory basis, to give time to third-party case managers who integrate with the PSCP, to make the necessary adaptations to add these fields to their applications, until, become mandatory in order to allow the transfer of data to RPC in a careless manner, to the next version 3.7, which is expected to be implemented during the summer of 2024.

These changes and the new integration will impact the current integration web services available for both tools, detailed below:

Aspects to take into account for entities that have developed integration with the PSCP from their recruitment file managers:

Integrators should take into account the integration document published in the post below that already adds these new fields and the detail of those that will have to be reported mandatorily.

Aspects to take into account for entities that have developed integration with the RPC from their hiring file managers.

Initially, the new integration services will coexist with the RPC, from the PSCP, and the web services of the RPC already existing, for third-party contracting managers. However, these directly integrated applications will receive a -1 error for those contracts that attempt to pass and have already been sent by the PSCP previously,

This error -1 may contain one of the messages below, which integrators must take into account to interpret correctly in order to keep the registration number in the RPC of the contracts that are already sent, and give these messages as vàlids from your system.  

Contract Answer:

                "There is a contract with the same file number, the existing registration number is (…)" 

                "A contract cannot be modified through the JCCA."

                "A contract validated by the JCCA cannot be modified."

Settlement Response:

                "The data of a settlement sent to the JCCA cannot be updated."

                "The data of a settlement validated by the JCCA cannot be updated.

Check the details of these and other new features in the version at version 3.6 news document

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