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NIST Special Publication 881-39

Federal Implementation Guideline

for Electronic Data Interchange

ASC X12 003040 Transaction Set 836

Contract Award

Implementation Convention

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NIST Special Publication 881-39

Federal Implementation Guideline

for Electronic Data Interchange

ASC X12 003040 Transaction Set 836

Contract Award

Implementation Convention

Electronic Commerce Acquisition Program Management Office

Standard Management Committee - Secretariat

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001

Editor: Dr. Jean-Philippe Favreau

January 1998

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

William M. Daley, Secretary

Technology Administration

Gary R. Bachula, Acting Under Secretary for Technology

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Raymond G. Kammer, Director
Reports on Information Technology

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)'s Information Technology Laboratory (ITL)

develops standards and guidelines, provides technical assistance, and conducts research for computers

and resources. As part of the overall federal effort to establish a single face to industry for conducting

electronic commerce, ITL has been designated as the organization responsible for coordinating the

development of Federal Implementation Conventions (ICs) for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). ICs are

defined by functional-area experts who create and select options from standard EDI Transaction Sets to

yield the implementations to be used for practical EDI. These ICs are made available to federal agencies

and industry by electronic means and this Special Publication Series.

National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 881-39

Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. Spec. Publ. 881-39, 19 pages (Jan. 1998)

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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1998

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402
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Functional Group ID=

Introduction:

This Draft Standard for Trial Use contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Procurement

Notices Transaction Set (836) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

environment. The transaction set can be used by the buyer to notify the seller or other interested parties of

the award or pending award of a contract which may contain some indefinite features, such as delivery

schedule, location, and/or quantities. This transaction set can also be used for purchasing actions such as the

notification of intent to award or actual award of a small business set-aside purchase, notification of being

outside of the competitive range, notice of receipt of protest, notice of receipt of a late bid, notice of bid

rejection, notice of the disposition of an unsolicited proposal, public notice of the abstract of bids, and the

notification of the award of a requirements type contract.

Heading:

Pos. No.Seg.

ID Name

Req.

Des. MflY iTluAt Ifsp \J J\~

Loop

R.C pCU t

Notes and

V_ Ulll III CII 13 Must Use 010 ST Transaction Set Header M 1

Must Use 020 BCO Beginning Segment For Contract Award M 1

Not Used 021 ITD Terms of Sale/Deferred Terms of Sale O 5

Not Used 022 CTB Restrictions/ Conditions O 5

Not Used 023 CTP Pricing Information O 25

Not Used 024 FOB F.O.B. Related Instructions O 1 LOOP ID -Nl >1

025 Nl Name O 1

026 N2 Additional Name Information O 2

Not Used 027 N3 Address Information O 2

028 N4 Geographic Location O 1

Not Used 029 REF Reference Numbers O >1

Not Used 030 PER Administrative Communications Contact O >1

Not Used 031 FOB F.O.B. Related Instructions O 1 LOOP ID -POl >1

Must Use 035 POl Baseline Item Data M 1

Not Used 040 P03 Additional Item Detail O >1

Not Used 050 CTP Pricing Information O >]

Not Used 060 PID Product/Item Description O >1

Not Used 070 MEA Measurements O >1

Not Used 080 PWK Paperwork O >1

090 REF Reference Numbers O >1

Not Used 100 PER Administrative Communications Contact O >]

Not Used 101 ITD Terms of Sale/Deferred Terms of Sale O 1

102 DTM Date/Time Reference O 10 Not Used 103 CTB Restrictions/ Conditions O 1

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Not Used 110 SLN Subline Item Detail O 1

Not Used 120 PID Product/Item Description O >1

LOOP ID -Nl ——— - -

>1

Not Used 130 Nl Name O 1

Not Used 140 N2 Additional Name Information O 2

Not Used 150 N3 Address Information O 2

Not Used 160 N4 Geographic Location O 1

Not Used 170 REF Reference Numbers O >1

Not Used 1 80 PER Administrative Communications Contact O > 1

Must Use 190 SE Transaction Set Trailer M 1

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ST Transaction Set Header

010

Heading

Mandatory

1To indicate the start of a transaction set and to assign a control number

1 The transaction set identifier (ST01 ) used by the translation routines of the

interchange partners to select the appropriate transaction set definition (e.g.,

810 selects the Invoice Transaction Set).

Data Element Summary

Must Use

Must Use

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ST01

ST02

Data

Element

143

329

Name Attributes

Transaction Set Identifier Code M ID 3/3

Code uniquely identifying a Transaction Set

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Transaction Set Control Number M AN 4/9

Identifying control number that must be unique within the transaction set functional group assigned by the originator for a transaction set

This unique control number is assigned by the originator ofthe

transaction set or by the originators application program. This same

number is carried in SE02.

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BCO

020

Beginning Segment For Contract Award

Heading

Mandatory

1To indicate the beginning of the Contract Award Transaction Set and to transmit

identifying numbers and dates.

1 BCO04 is the contract number.

2 BCO06 is the contract beginning date.

3 BCO07 is the contract expiration date.

Data Element Summary

Ref.

Pes.

Must Use BCO01

Must Use BCO02

Must Use BCO03

Must Use BCO04

Data

Element

353

586

652

127

Name Attributes

Transaction Set Purpose Code M ID 2/2

Code identifying purpose of transaction set

00 Original

01 Cancellation

07 Duplicate

Use to indicate the re-transmission ofa previously

transmitted award announcement.

Request for Quote Reference Number M AN 1/45

Number assigned by the purchaser to identify his request for quote

Use to identify the solicitation number (IFB,RFP, orRFQ) that is applicable to all the line items awarded. If there was no solicitation, cite

the letter N. Ifthere were multiple solicitation resulting in the award,

cite the letter Min this data element and identify the various

solicitations in the l/REF/090 segment.

Request Quotation Control Date M DT 6/6

Date to be used for reference purposes in an RFQ and a response to RFQ.

Use to identify the date ofthe solicitation (IFB,RFP, or RFQ) that

resulted in this award. Ifthere was no solicitation or there were multiple

solicitation resulting in the award, enter six zeros (000000). When there were multiple solicitations resulting in the award, cite the date ofeach

solicitation in the l/DTM/102 segment.

Reference Number M AN 1/30

Reference number or identification number as defined for a particular

Transaction Set, or as specified by the Reference Number Qualifier.

1. Use to identify the number ofthe contract or order awarded.

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Not Used BCO05

BCO06

Not Used BCO07

Not Used BCO08

Must Use BCO09

Must Use BCO10

2. Ifthe award wasfor a contract or purchase order, cite the number of

the awarded instrument (i.e., the PIN).

3. Ifthe award wasfor a delivery order, call or release against a basic

contract, cite a concatenation ofthe basic contract number and the

order number (i.e., the PIN and SPIN).

4. Ifthe award was modification ofan existing contract/order, cite a

concatenation ofthe existing contract/order number and the

modification number.

846 Contract Status Code O ID 2/2

Code designating the current status of the contract

Refer to 003040 Data Element Dictionary for acceptable code values.

373 Date O DT 6/6

Date (YYMMDD)

Use to indicate the date ofaward ofthe cited contract or order.

373 Date O DT 6/6

Date (YYMMDD)

587 Acknowledgment Type O ID 2/2

Code specifying the type of acknowledgment

Refer to 003040 Data Element Dictionary for acceptable code values.

128 Reference Number Qualifier O ID 2/2

Code qualifying the Reference Number.

TN Transaction Reference Number

Use to indicate a unique number assigned by the

originator to identify this transaction set.

127 Reference Number O AN 1/30

Reference number or identification number as defined for a particular

Transaction Set, or as specified by the Reference Number Qualifier.

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Nl Name

025

Nl Optional

Heading

Optional

1To identify a party by type of organization, name, and code

1 At least one of N 102 or N 103 is required.

2 If either N 103 or N 104 is present, then the other is required.

1 This segment, used alone, provides the most efficient method of providing

organizational identification. To obtain this efficiency the "ID Code" (N104)

must provide a key to the table maintained by the transaction processing party.

2 N105 and N 106 further define the type of entity inNlOl.

Use 2 iterations ofthis segment to identify the entity awarded the contract/order

and the buying party.

Data Element Summary

Must Use

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N101

N102

N103

Not Used

N104

N105

Data

Element Name Attributes

98 Entity Identifier Code M ID 2/2

Code identifying an organizational entity, a physical location, or an

individual

BY Buying Party (Purchaser)

Use to indicate the buying office.

SE Selling Party

Use to indicate the entity awarded the

contract/order.

93 Name X AN 1/35

Free-form name

When NIOlis code SE, use to identify the entity awarded the

contract/order.

66 Identification Code Qualifier X ID 1/2

Code designating the system/method of code structure used for

Identification Code (67)

When NI01 is code B Y, use to identify the entity awarding the

contract/order.

1 D-U-N-S Number, Dun & Bradstreet

Use to identify the buying party.

67 Identification Code

Code identifying a party or other code

706 Entity Relationship Code

Code describing entity relationship

X AN 2/17

O ID 2/2

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Refer to 003040 Data Element Dictionary for acceptable code values.

Not Used N106 98 Entity Identifier Code O ID 2/2

Code identifying an organizational entity, a physical location, or an

individual

Refer to 003040 Data Element Dictionary for acceptable code values.

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N2 Additional Name Information

026

Nl Optional

Heading

Optional

2

To specify additional names or those longer than 35 characters in length

Data Element Summary

Ref. Data

Pes. Element Name Attributes

Must Use N201 93 Name M AN 1/35

Free-form name

N202 93 Name O AN 1/35

Free-form name

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N4 Geographic Location

028

Nl Optional

Heading

Optional

1To specify the geographic place of the named party

1 If N406 is present, then N405 is required.

1 A combination of either N401 through N404, or N405 and N406 may be

adequate to specify a location.

2 N402 is required only if city name (N401) is in the USA or Canada.

When N101 is code SE, this segment is REQUIRED to identify the geographic

area where the entity awarded the contract/order is located.

Not Used

Not Used

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N401

N402

N403

N404

Not Used

Not Used

N405

N406

Attributes

O AN 2/30

Data Element Summary

Data

Element Name

19 City Name

Free-form text for city name

156 State or Province Code O ID 2/2

Code (Standard State/Province) as defined by appropriate government

agency

116 Postal Code O ID 3/9

Code defining international postal zone code excluding punctuation and

blanks (zip code for United States)

Required when an award was made to a United States Company.

26 Country Code O ID 2/3

Code identifying the country

Use only when an award is made to a selling party outside ofthe United

States.

309 Location Qualifier X ID 1/2

Code identifying type of location

Refer to 003040 Data Element Dictionary for acceptable code values.

310 Location Identifier O AN 1/30

Code which identifies a specific location

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POl Baseline Item Data

035

POl Mandatory

Heading

Mandatory

1To specify basic and most frequently

1 If PO 1 03 is present, then PO 1 02

2 If PO 1 05 is present, then PO 1 04

3 If PO 1 06 is present, then PO 1 07

4 If PO 1 08 is present, then PO 1 09

5 If PO 1 1 0 is present, then PO 1 1

1

6 If PO 1 1 2 is present, then PO 1 1

3

7 If POl 14 is present, then POl 15

8 If POl 16 is present, then POl 17

9 If POl 18 is present, then POl 19

10 If POl 20 is present, then P0121

11 If PO 1 22 is present, then PO 1 23

12 IfP0124 is present, then POl 25

used line item data

s required.

s required.

s required.

s required.

s required.

s required.

s required.

s required.

s required.

s required.

s required.

s required.

1 See the Data Dictionary for a complete list of ID's.

2 POl 01 is the line item identification.

3 POl 06 through POl 25 provide for ten (10) different product/service ID's per

each item. For example: Case, Color, Drawing No., UPC No., ISBN No., Model

No., SKU.

Notes: /. Use to identify award datafor a line item in the cited solicitation.

2. Use multiple iterations as needed to identify multiple line items, each iteration

will identify only one line item.

3. When BCO01 is code 01, provide all the line items contained in the original

contract award transmission.

Must Use

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PO101

Must Use PO102

Must Use PO103

Data Element Summary

Data

Element Name Attributes

350 Assigned Identification O AN 1/11

Alphanumeric characters assigned for differentiation within a transaction

set Use to indicate the line item number contained in the solicitation.

330 Quantity Ordered X R 1/9

Quantity ordered

Cite the total awarded quantity ofthe line item awarded, not the

solicited quantity.

355 Unit or Basis for Measurement Code O ID 2/2

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Must Use PO104 212

PO105 639

Must Use PO106 235

PO107 234

Code specifying the units in which a value is being expressed, or manner

in which a measurement has been taken

/. Use any code.

2. Cite the unit ofmeasurefor the awarded quantity identified in the

850 transaction set.

Refer to 003040 Data Element Dictionary for acceptable code values.

Unit Price X R 1/14

Price per unit of product, service, commodity, etc.

/. Use to indicate the award price ofthe line item.

2. When PO105 is code NC or NQ cite the number "0".

Basis of Unit Price Code O ID 2/2

Code identifying the type of unit price for an item

ES Estimated

NC No Charge

NQ No Quote

Use to indicate the item is Not Separately Priced,

data maintenance has been submitted to ASCX12

to add a codefor Not Separately Priced. If

approved, we expect this code will be available for

use inASCXU Version/Release 3050. In the

meantime use this code.

PV Provisional Price

Sold on or off the futures market; price not really

fixed; product sold at this price

Use to indicate a price that includes the use of

governmentfurnishedproperty (GFP). Data

maintenance has been submitted to ASC XI2 to add a codefor Price with Government Furnished

Property. Ifapproved, we expect this code will be

availablefor use in ASC XI2 Version/Release 3050.

In the meantime use this code.

Product/Service ID Qualifier O ID 2/2

Code identifying the type/source of the descriptive number used in

Product/Service ID (234)

1. Use any code.

2. As a minimum, there must be one occurrence of a DE235/234 pair

citing either code CN or SV. Other listed codes may be used to further

identify the line item. Code values must correspond to those usedfor the

corresponding line item in the cited contract/order.

Refer to 003040 Data Element Dictionary for acceptable code values.

Product/Service ID X AN 1/30

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PO109

PO110

POlll

POH2

234

235

234

235

Identifying number for a product or service

PO108 235 Product/Service ID Qualifier O ID 2/2

Code identifying the type/source of the descriptive number used in

Product/Service ID (234)

Refer to 003040 Data Element Dictionary for acceptable code values.

Product/Service ID X AN 1/30

Identifying number for a product or service

Product/Service ID Qualifier O ID 2/2

Code identifying the type/source of the descriptive number used in

Product/Service ID (234)

Refer to 003040 Data Element Dictionary for acceptable code values.

Product/Service ID X AN 1/30

Identifying number for a product or service

Product/Service ID Qualifier O ID 2/2

Code identifying the type/source of the descriptive number used in

Product/Service ID (234)

Refer to 003040 Data Element Dictionary for acceptable code values.

POH3 234 Product/Service ID X AN 1/30

Identifying number for a product or service

POH4 235 Product/Service ID Qualifier O ID 2/2

Code identifying the type/source of the descriptive number used in

Product/Service ID (234)

Refer to 003040 Data Element Dictionary for acceptable code values.

POH5 234 Product/Service ID X AN 1/30

Identifying number for a product or service

POH6 235 Product/Service ID Qualifier O ID 2/2

Code identifying the type/source of the descriptive number used in

Product/Service ID (234)

Refer to 003040 Data Element Dictionary for acceptable code values.

POH7 234 Product/Service ID X AN 1/30

Identifying number for a product or service

POH8 235 Product/Service ID Qualifier O ID 2/2

Code identifying the type/source of the descriptive number used in

Product/Service ID (234)

Refer to 003040 Data Element Dictionary for acceptable code values.

POH9 234 Product/Service ID X AN 1/30

Identifying number for a product or service

PO120 235 Product/Service ID Qualifier O ID 2/2

Code identifying the type/source of the descriptive number used in

Product/Service ID (234)

Refer to 003040 Data Element Dictionary for acceptable code values.

P0121 234 Product/Service ID X AN 1/30

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Identifying number for a product or service

P0122 235 Product/Service ID Qualifier O ID 2/2

Code identifying the type/source of the descriptive number used in

Product/Service ID (234)

Refer to 003040 Data Element Dictionary for acceptable code values.

Product/Service ID X AN 1/30

Identifying number for a product or service

Product/Service ID Qualifier O ID 2/2

Code identifying the type/source of the descriptive number used in

Product/Service ID (234)

Refer to 003040 Data Element Dictionary for acceptable code values.

P0125 234 Product/Service ID X AN 1/30

Identifying number for a product or service

P0123

P0124

234

235

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REF Reference Numbers

090

POl Mandatory

Heading

Optional

>1

To specify identifying numbers.

1 At least one of REF02 or REF03 is required.

Use this l/REF/090 segment when the solicitation varies by awarded line item.

When the solicitation is the samefor all ofthe awarded line items, cite the

solicitation number in BCO02.

Data Element Summary

Must Use

Ref.

Pes.

REF01

REF02

Not Used REF03

Data

Element

128

127

352

Name Attributes

Reference Number Qualifier M ID 2/2

Code qualifying the Reference Number.

KS Solicitation

A discreet number assigned by the purchasing

activity to differentiate between different solicitations

Use to indicate the solicitation (IFB, RFP, RFQ)

that contained the awarded line item.

Reference Number X AN 1/30

Reference number or identification number as defined for a particular

Transaction Set, or as specified by the Reference Number Qualifier.

Description X AN 1/80

A free-form description to clarify the related data elements and their

content

I

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DTM Date/Time Reference

102

POl Mandatory

Heading

Optional

10

To specify pertinent dates and times

1 At least one of DTM02 DTM03 or DTM06 is required.

2 If either DTM06 or DTM07 is present, then the other is required.

Use this 1/DTM102 segment to identify the date ofthe solicitation cited in

REF01/02.

Ref.

Pes.

Must Use DTM01

DTM02

Not Used DTM03

Not Used DTM04

Not Used DTM05

Not Used DTM06

Data Element Summary

Data

Element Name Attributes

374 Date/Time Qualifier M ID 3/3

Code specifying type of date or time, or both date and time

993 Request for Quotation

The reference date associated with a specifically

numbered request for quotation

Use to indicate the date ofthe solicitation (e.g.,

IFB, RFP, RFQ) cited in REF01/02.

373 Date X DT 6/6

Date (YYMMDD)

337 Time X TM 4/8

Time expressed in 24-hour clock time as follows: HHMM, or HHMMSS,

or HHMMSSD, or HHMMSSDD, where H = hours (00-23), M = minutes

(00-59), S = integer seconds (00-59) and DD = decimal seconds; decimal

seconds are expressed as follows: D = tenths (0-9) and DD = hundredths

(00-99)

623 Time Code O ID 2/2

Code identifying the time. In accordance with International Standards

Organization standard 8601, time can be specified by a + or - and an

indication in hours in relation to Universal Time Coordinate (UTC) time;

since + is a restricted character, + and - are substituted by P and M in the

codes that follow

Refer to 003040 Data Element Dictionary for acceptable code values.

624 Century O NO 2/2

The first two characters in the designation of the year (CCYY)

1250 Date Time Period Format Qualifier X ID 2/3

Code indicating the date format, time format, or date and time format

Refer to 003040 Data Element Dictionary for acceptable code values.

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Not Used DTM07 1251 Date Time Period X AN 1/35

Expression of a date, a time, or range of dates, times or dates and times

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SE Transaction Set Trailer

190

Heading

Mandatory

1To indicate the end of the transaction set and provide the count of the transmitted

segments (including the beginning (ST) and ending (SE) segments).

1 SE is the last segment of each transaction set.

Must Use

Must Use

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SE01

SE02

Data

Element

96

329

Data Element Summary

Name Attributes

Number of Included Segments M NO 1/10

Total number of segments included in a transaction set including ST and

SE segments

Transaction Set Control Number M AN 4/9

Identifying control number that must be unique within the transaction set functional group assigned by the originator for a transaction set

Cited the same number as the one carried in ST02.

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