@ghitabahaj 

yes you can access outside variable in onLoad catalog client script which applies on MRVS

Syntax is this

var val = g_service_catalog.parent.getValue("no_of_children");

I created blog for this in past

Access value of catalog item variable within MRVS client script 

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