Currently, the Sobre Digital tool does not have a specific functionality for submitting offers anonymously.

However, we transfer below a recommendation from the Administrative Contracting Advisory Board, to comply with article 187.1 of Law 9/2017 of November 8, on public sector contracts, through the possibilities of configuring limited access to the envelope opening space offered by the tool:

  • Configure the project competition file to submit proposals using the Digital Envelope tool, taking into account that the jury members should not be able to access the envelope opening area. The personnel of the contracting unit should access the envelope opening area, download the documentation and send it to the jury members via email or other similar means, taking into account changing the file name if it contains information about the bidding company, to maintain the anonymity of the offers. In this way, the electronic submission of offers using the Digital Envelope tool could be complied with and the anonymity of the projects with respect to the jury members could be maintained.

Following this recommendation from the JCCA, this issue should be included in the tender documents, both in terms of maintaining anonymity in the proposals (no names, data, logos or any type of identifier) and in terms of access to the opening tool by the contracting unit, specifying that jury members will not access project proposals through the Digital Envelope tool.