Mandatory validation on the link between the section Lot and LotResult
We would like to ask why Result notices include mandatory validation that each defined Lot must be connected to the section LotResult.
There are cases of tenders divided e.g. into 3 lots, when a user needs to publish first a result of lot 2 and then, e.g. after 2 months, he needs to publish the result of lot 1 and 3.
In our system (based on SDK 1.8), result notices are pre-filled with data published in previous Competition notices which means that they include all the defined lots. In the above-mentioned example, the user must delete the lots which have no result at that moment.
This situation may lead to unintentional user errors as the orientation in eForms is very complicated.
Another issue may appear in Result notices including more lots that are not preceded by a Competition notice (negotiated procedure without prior publication). In such case a user publishes the result of lot 1 in the first result notice (the validation rule does not enable to fill in information about all the lots in the section Lot) and later on, he publishes the result of lot 2, but in both notices, lot 1 and 2 will have the same identifier „LOT-0001“. This may be a problem when processing eForms for statistical/data storage purposes.
In our opinion, it would be more appropriate to cancel the validation rule and keep all lots defined in section Lot in all the Result notices.