kSIST-TS FprCEN/TS 17011-4:2025
(Main)Electronic Public Procurement - Architecture - Part 4: Technical architecture
Electronic Public Procurement - Architecture - Part 4: Technical architecture
The purpose of this deliverable is to specify and describe the reference architecture applied as the basis for the development of Business Interoperability Interface specifications in the eProcurement domain by the TC 440 technical committee.
Elektronische öffentliche Auftragsvergabe - Architektur - Teil 4: Technische Architektur
Der Zweck dieses Dokuments besteht darin, die Referenzarchitektur festzulegen und zu beschreiben, die vom Technischen Ausschuss TC 440 als Grundlage für die Entwicklung von Spezifikationen für geschäftliche Interoperabilitätsschnittstellen im Bereich der elektronischen Auftragsvergabe verwendet wird.
Marchés publics électroniques - Architecture - Partie 4 : Architecture technique
Elektronska javna naročila - Arhitektura - 4. del: Tehnična arhitektura
General Information
Standards Content (Sample)
SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-september-2025
Elektronska javna naročila - Arhitektura - 4. del: Tehnična arhitektura
Electronic Public Procurement - Architecture - Part 4: Technical architecture
Elektronische öffentliche Auftragsvergabe - Architektur - Teil 4: Technische Architektur
Marchés publics électroniques - Architecture - Partie 4 : Architecture technique
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: FprCEN/TS 17011-4
ICS:
35.240.20 Uporabniške rešitve IT pri IT applications in office work
pisarniškem delu
35.240.63 Uporabniške rešitve IT v IT applications in trade
trgovini
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.
FINAL DRAFT
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
SPÉCIFICATION TECHNIQUE
TECHNISCHE SPEZIFIKATION
July 2025
ICS 35.240.63
English Version
Electronic Public Procurement - Architecture - Part 4:
Technical architecture
Marchés publics électroniques - Architecture - Partie 4 Elektronische öffentliche Auftragsvergabe -
: Architecture technique Architektur - Teil 4: Technische Architektur
This draft Technical Specification is submitted to CEN members for Vote. It has been drawn up by the Technical Committee
CEN/TC 440.
CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and
United Kingdom.
Recipients of this draft are invited to submit, with their comments, notification of any relevant patent rights of which they are
aware and to provide supporting documentation.
Warning : This document is not a Technical Specification. It is distributed for review and comments. It is subject to change
without notice and shall not be referred to as a Technical Specification.
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Contents Page
European foreword . 4
Introduction . 5
1 Scope . 6
2 Normative references . 6
3 Terms and definitions . 6
4 Symbols and abbreviated terms . 7
5 Alignment with the European Interoperability Reference Architecture (EIRA). 7
5.1 General . 7
5.2 Mapping between EIRA Components, Architecture Building Blocks and the 4-Corner
Model . 8
6 The 4-Corner Model. 10
6.1 General . 10
6.2 The 4-CornersPe . 10
6.3 SMP & SML. 11
6.4 Transaction process . 12
6.5 Advantages . 12
7 Transport infrastructure . 13
7.1 Legal requirements . 13
7.1.1 General . 13
7.1.2 Transparency and Non-Discrimination . 14
7.1.3 Data protection and privacy . 14
7.1.4 Electronic identification and trust services . 14
7.1.5 Security standards . 14
7.1.6 Archiving and traceability . 14
7.2 ASiC-E container . 15
7.2.1 General . 15
7.2.2 mimetype . 15
7.2.3 sbdh.xml (SBDH) . 15
7.2.4 Business documents . 15
7.2.5 Additional documents . 15
7.2.6 META-INF/asicmanifest*.xml . 16
7.2.7 META-INF/signature*.p7s . 16
7.2.8 Additional rules . 16
7.2.9 ASiC-E example . 16
7.3 Encryption of Tender and Qualification documents . 17
7.4 REM Evidence Profile . 17
7.5 SBDH Profile . 18
8 Pre- and post-award Interoperability Architecture . 18
8.1 Transition between pre- and post-award . 18
8.2 ePO mapping . 18
8.3 Mapping between different syntax bindings . 32
9 Process Control Architecture . 33
9.1 General . 33
9.2 Extending process control to post-award . 34
9.3 Seamless integration across phases . 34
10 Security and Data Privacy (Covered as part of 7) . 35
11 Integration with other systems . 35
12 Compliance and regulation (Covered as part of 7) . 35
13 How to claim conformance . 35
Annex A (informative) Overview of the clauses and subclauses which fall under derivative use
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Bibliography . 37
European foreword
This document (FprCEN/TS 17011-4:2025) has been prepared by Technical Committee
CEN/TC 440 “Electronic Public Procurement”, the secretariat of which is held by DIN.
This document is currently submitted to the Vote on TS.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
This document falls under a CEN-CENELEC pilot on derivative use (as approved by the CEN/CA
(Administrative Board) through decision 37/2019). For more information about the implementation of
derivative use in CEN/TC 440 see here: https://www.cencenelec.eu/areas-of-work/cen-cenelec-
topics/public-procurement/cen-tc-440-electronic-public-procurement/
This document is part of a series of multi-part documents prepared, or under preparation, by
CEN/TC 440:
— 17011-series: eProcurement Architecture, providing a set of specifications outlining different
aspects of the eProcurement architecture for Business Interoperability Specifications.
— 17014-series: eTendering Business Interoperability Specifications, providing a set of
specifications outlining business choreography, transaction, syntax binding specifications and
guidelines required to support the eTendering processes.
— 17015-series: eCatalogue Business Interoperability Specifications, providing a set of
specifications outlining business choreography, transaction, syntax binding specifications and
guidelines required to support the eCatalogue processes.
— 17016-series: eOrdering Business Interoperability Specifications, providing a set of
specifications outlining business choreography, transaction, syntax binding specifications and
guidelines required to support the eOrdering processes.
— 17017-series: eFulfilment Business Interoperability Specifications, providing a set of
specifications outlining business choreography, transaction, syntax binding specifications and
guidelines required to support the eDelivery processes.
The terms “shall”, “shall not”, “should”, “should not”, “may”, “can” and “cannot” are interpreted according
to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations Part 3:2022, Clause 7 .
Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national standards body.
A complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CEN website.
https://boss.cen.eu/reference-material/refdocs/pages/
Introduction
Derivative use pilot
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(Administrative Board) through decision 38/2019).
CEN has the copyright to all CEN publications, including their entire content and associated metadata, as
described in CEN-CENELEC Guide 10 “Policy on dissemination, sales and copyright of CEN-CENELEC
Publications”. However, through the derivative use pilot, CEN gives permission to the copying, replication
and translation of content from CEN/TC 440 deliverables in specific circumstances.
Under the derivative use pilot, specific sections of CEN/TC 440 publications may be copied, replicated
and translated in cases where this is a necessary condition for the meaningful implementation of the
publication. The sections which fall under derivative use will typically be elements, such as semantic
definitions and rules related to the use of information elements, and the name, definition and description
of processes and transactions, which are needed in software solutions, whether intended for sale in the
private market or for use in the public sector, and documents guiding the implementation and use in
specific countries and/or business sectors.
Under derivative use, a
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