org.cispec.counterparty

recommended: any CI that is a contract or formal agreement

org.cispec.counterparty identifies the other party to a contract or agreement when that contract is tracked as a Change Item. This is distinct from org.cispec.vendor (who supplies or services a CI to the org) and org.cispec.customer (who the org delivers to) — counterparty names the party on the other side of a contract document that is itself the CI being tracked.

In a contract CI, owner is who in the owning organisation is accountable for the contract, and counterparty is the other signatory. Both are needed to fully describe the agreement.

Value format

The counterparty’s commonly used trading or legal name.

org.cispec.counterparty=Anthropic-PBC
org.cispec.counterparty=Department-of-Defense
org.cispec.counterparty=NHS-England
org.cispec.counterparty=Lockheed-Martin-Corporation

Conformance

org.cispec.counterparty is RECOMMENDED for any CI that is a contract or formal agreement. Not REQUIRED for Declared conformance.

Attestation

counterparty is independently attestable against the contract document itself and, for government contracts, public procurement records.

Resolution and relation

Every contract CI sharing the same counterparty forms a real query — “every contract with Department-of-Defense” is a vendor risk management and contract renewal query.

Document identifier

OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.42387.2.6.8.2
GUID: bfb13628-0034-501b-8404-f05df058bfbf