Alerting services

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Patrizia Cannuli would like to propose a use case on behalf of Consip. It would be based on the use case 2.3 "Alerting services" from the Landscaping report. They would like to analyse deeper this use case in the short-term.

Description from the Landscaping report:
Contracting authorities announce and publish the calls for tender to economic operators, citizens and third parties. Through the use of alerting services, economic operators are informed about published call for tenders that match their profile. In order to automate alerting services, e-Procurement data such as tenders and information about economic operators should be machine processable, so they can be integrated, matched, and the right data should be delivered to the right person (depending on their subscription to the alerting services).
Example:
A Spanish public administration procures stationery and textbooks for the forthcoming year. The public administration publishes the call for tenders on an online platform. Since the call for tenders is published in a machine-readable format, following the structure of the ePO, third-party applications can process the call for tender and send alerts to interested parties who are subscribed in their client bases. Usually, such third party applications offer their clients the ability to define criteria for which they want to be automatically alerted.
Information requirements:
In this case it would be required:

• Of the ePO to model the calls for tenders and the details within it.

Element	Description
Title	Alerting services
Category	Innovation & value added services
Description	Concise text that provides basic information about the actors, the goal and the intended results of the use case
Actors	Further details on the agents (persons, organisations or software programs) involved in the use case
Final recipients	The actors that receive the results or benefits from the use case
Preconditions	Anything that can be said about the situation before the use case begins
Flow	A step-by-step description of the actions taken and responses received by the user: First step Second step Third step Fourth step (if required)
Comments	Any other observation related to the use case

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