Introduction to Standards

What are Standards?

Standards describe the technical or operating conditions required to achieve Catalogue Compliance.

Standards will be used :

• To express any technical and non-functional requirements

• By Suppliers to understand what is expected of them in order to be compliant

• By the Catalogue Authority to assess Supplier Solutions against in order to award compliance

Standards Model

The Standards are structured in the model below.

• There are a set of Overarching Standards that are applicable to all DSCR Solutions (e.g. Commercial Standard)

• There are Interoperability Standards which contain requirements applicable to all DSCR Solutions and some that are only applicable to certain functionality

• There are Data Standards which contain requirements applicable to all DSCR Solutions

See Standards Structure page for more detail on the structure and content of Standards.