Norwegian ESPD EHF version 1.0
Background
The new procurement regulation has introduced the European Self-declaration Form (ESPD) provision for procurement of the EEA thresholds. The self-declaration form shall serve as preliminary documentation that the supplier meets the eligibility criteria and any selection criteria and that there are no grounds for rejection.
It is compulsory for public contractors to fill out the form electronically. Suppliers must complete and submit the form electronically if the client has facilitated electronic submission.
An update of the Norwegian regulations, expected to enter force first quarter of 2018, will make it mandatory for the electronic ESPD to be in accordance with the standardised Norwegian format (EHF). The format will be named EHF ESPD v1.0. EHF ESPD is based on the commissions data model version 1.0.2: https://github.com/ESPD.
EHF ESPD is planned to go into production 15th of February. When EHF ESPD guide is ready, a link to the specification will be published on this site.
The OpenPEPPOl strategy for developing and implementing an ESPD BIS to be used in the PEPPOL e-Delivery network, follows the basic OpenPEPPOL policy of only developing BIS profiles fors stabilized and aproved standards.
Due to urgent need of a PEPPOL BIS amongst some of our members OpenPEPPOL have decided to develop a PEPPOL ESPD BIS version 1 this spring, based on the released ESPD exchange data modelv1.0".
When the next version of the ESPD exchange data model are publised in a finalized and stabelized version OpenPEPPOL will develop a PEPPOL ESPD BIS version 2, and implement it acording to the OpenPEPPOL migration policy.
As It is already known to OpenPEPPOL that the ESPD exchange data model v2, are solving issues and closing gabs in the currently released model, OpenPEPPOL follows with great interest the work of ESPD INT, and is prepared to contribute even more directly to making this version ready for publication.
AS the ESPD v2 is not backward compatible, OpenPEPPOL are planning to establish a Pre-Award Work Group to outline and handle a plan for mandatory migration from v1 to v2, and for mitigating the risk caused by running the two versions in paralell during migration.