Personal identifiers

Suppliers and tenderers can be organizations or individuals (natural persons). Such individuals are often referred to as "sole traders" or "self-employed individuals".

Details of natural persons can be disclosed using the parties section in OCDS only if:

• The natural person is a tenderer or supplier; and

• The laws in your jurisdiction permit the publication of such details

Subject to the above, you can disclose identifiers for natural persons using the Identifier building block.

There are two components to an identifier in OCDS:

• a code indicating the list or register from which the identifier is drawn (the scheme); and

• the identifier itself (the id).

Follow the guidance from the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard to construct a scheme value for the personal identifier:

the scheme should have the pattern {JURISDICTION}-{TYPE} where JURISDICTION is an uppercase ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code and TYPE is one of PASSPORT, TAXID or IDCARD

Worked example

In the example below:

• A self-employed individual submits a bid for a tender in Colombia

• The individual is listed in the parties section with 'tenderer' in .roles

• The individual's ID card number is published in .identifier.id

• .identifier.scheme is constructed from the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Colombia ('COL') and the type of the identifier ('IDCARD')

{
    "uri": "https://standard.open-contracting.org/examples/releases/ocds-213czf-000-00001-02-tender.json",
    "publishedDate": "2010-03-01T09:30:00Z",
    "publisher": {
        "scheme": "GB-COH",
        "uid": "09506232",
        "name": "Open Data Services Co-operative Limited",
        "uri": "https://standard.open-contracting.org/examples/"
    },
    "license": "http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/",
    "publicationPolicy": "https://github.com/open-contracting/sample-data/",
    "version": "1.1",
    "extensions": [],
    "releases": [
        {
            "ocid": "ocds-213czf-000-00001",
            "id": "ocds-213czf-000-00001-02-tender",
            "date": "2010-03-15T09:30:00Z",
            "language": "en",
            "tag": [
                "tender"
            ],
            "initiationType": "tender",
            "parties": [
                {
                    "id": "COL-IDCARD-1234567",
                    "name": "VICTOR HUGO GONZALEZ PEREZ",
                    "roles": [
                        "tenderer"
                    ],
                    "identifier": {
                        "id": "1234567",
                        "scheme": "COL-IDCARD",
                        "legalName": "VICTOR HUGO GONZALEZ PEREZ"
                    },
                    "contactPoint": {
                        "name": "VICTOR HUGO GONZALEZ PEREZ"
                    }
                }
            ],
            "tender": {
                "id": "ocds-213czf-000-00001-01-tender",
                "title": "Planned cycle lane improvements",
                "description": "Tenders solicited for work to build new cycle lanes in the centre of town.",
                "status": "active",
                "tenderers": [
                    {
                        "id": "COL-IDCARD-1234567",
                        "name": "VICTOR HUGO GONZALEZ PEREZ"
                    }
                ],
                "items": [
                    {
                        "id": "0001",
                        "description": "string",
                        "classification": {
                            "scheme": "CPV",
                            "id": "45233130",
                            "description": "Construction work for highways",
                            "uri": "http://cpv.data.ac.uk/code-45233130"
                        },
                        "additionalClassifications": [
                            {
                                "scheme": "CPV",
                                "id": "45233162-2",
                                "description": "Cycle path construction work",
                                "uri": "http://cpv.data.ac.uk/code-45233162.html"
                            }
                        ],
                        "quantity": 8,
                        "unit": {
                            "name": "Miles",
                            "value": {
                                "amount": 120000,
                                "currency": "GBP"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                ],
                "minValue": {
                    "amount": 600000,
                    "currency": "GBP"
                },
                "value": {
                    "amount": 1100000,
                    "currency": "GBP"
                },
                "procurementMethod": "open",
                "procurementMethodRationale": "An open competitive tender is required by EU Rules",
                "awardCriteria": "bestProposal",
                "awardCriteriaDetails": "The best proposal, subject to value for money requirements, will be accepted.",
                "submissionMethod": [
                    "electronicSubmission"
                ],
                "submissionMethodDetails": "Submit through the online portal at http://example.com/submissions/ocds-213czf-000-00001-01/",
                "enquiryPeriod": {
                    "startDate": "2010-03-01T09:00:00Z",
                    "endDate": "2010-03-14T17:30:00Z"
                },
                "hasEnquiries": false
            }
        }
    ]
}