What does the specification of a Belgian TED notice contain?
It describes the works, supply, or service the buyer is asking for. This page has no standard contents list: AOEX shows a file only when TED publishes one, and does not write a template.
The document that describes the request
In a public contract, the specification is the document in which the buyer describes the expected works, supply, or service. You look there for the object, the place, the contract timing, and the papers the buyer asks to enclose when the document says so.
The file name varies by buyer: cahier des charges, bestek, specification, or a plain document name. The file name does not tell you what is inside.
What TED actually publishes
TED publishes the notice. It sometimes also publishes a file, such as a PDF or an archive. AOEX offers that file when the address leads directly to the file.
A Belgian notice can point to a document workspace that is not an open file. AOEX does not turn that link into a specification and does not write one. The page then says that TED does not publish a downloadable specification, and the link to the official notice stays.
The notice PDF is not the specification
The TED PDF is the official publication of the notice. On its own it does not prove that a full specification is attached. If there is no specification file, open the notice to see where the buyer puts the documents.
What the page does not do
AOEX does not summarise a specification that is absent from the fields received, and it does not invent a bid template. If the notice does not list the pieces to attach, they stay marked unknown. If the notice fields say what to file, that text is copied as published. If they do not say, the page says that they do not say.
This note describes public documents and how AOEX works. It is not legal advice.
Edited by Rachid Bouhmou.
