scope:

This document provides specifications on business processes for exchanging an electronic product catalogues ("catalogues") as part of the business processes in the post-award area and pre-award area (partially), so that catalogues can serve as a basis for placing orders as well as evaluating tenders. The key aspects covered by this choreography specification: • Processes for submitting catalogues from the selling to the buying side; • Processes for submitting catalogue-related data as part of tendering processes. Transaction used in the specified choreographies are out of scope. These transactions are specified in the related transaction specification on "Catalogue Transactions".