DIN SPEC 77227:2016-03

This DIN SPEC has been prepared by a workshop (temporary committee) in the course of the PAS procedure. This DIN SPEC has been prepared and adopted by the authors named in the foreword. Service standards are particularly suitable as an instrument for quality assurance and for ensuring transparency of conditions when awarding public contracts. Both public contracting authorities and companies, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), participating in public tenders can benefit from this. However, the legally compliant use of service standards in the award procedure requires that the standards themselves are compatible with the requirements of German and European public procurement law. The DIN SPEC contains a guideline for the formulation of service standards that are compatible with procurement law. For this purpose, interfaces between service standards and relevant legal provisions of public procurement law are identified. It also describes the requirements of public procurement law for the use of service standards at the various stages of the award procedure. Coordination with the legal requirements of public procurement law is a cross-cutting issue that is relevant to a large number of service fields. The DIN SPEC is primarily aimed at participants in national, European and international standardization bodies. It is intended to enable those involved in the preparation of a service standard to identify the requirements of public procurement law during the standardization process and to take them into account in the formulation of the standards.