EU Single Procurement Document

Single self-declarative document for EU procurement.

Definition

ESPD covers Parties (procurement procedure information, economic operator), Exclusion grounds (criminal convictions, tax/social security, professional misconduct, insolvency), Selection criteria (suitability, economic financial standing, technical professional ability), Reduction of candidates. XML schema based on UBL. EU eESPD service deprecated 2019, national services took over (France DUME, Italy DGUE).

Origin

Directive 2014/24/EU Article 59, Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/7 of 5 January 2016.

Usage

Mandatory for all economic operators responding to EU public procurement >= thresholds. Generalized adoption in 27 Member States.

Related terms

• France DUME — implémentation française.
• eForms Annex 2 — spec apparentée.
• eCertis — service certificats associés.