The Treasury of New South Wales (NSW) is responsible for NSW eTendering, the system used by NSW government agencies to publish information about procurement opportunities and concluded contracts.
According to the NSW Procurement Policy Framework, all NSW government agencies, excluding state-owned corporations and local councils, must publish the following on eTendering:
All open tenders
All procedures with an estimated value at or above the following thresholds, except when using a list of pre-qualified suppliers or when limited tendering is exceptionally allowed:
$680,000 for goods and services
$9,584,000 for works
All contracts with a value at or above $150,000 (including VAT) within 45 working days of being concluded
Accredited agencies must also publish an annual procurement plan on eTendering.
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A contracting process has several stages: tendering, awarding, contracting and implementation. You can learn about the contracting stages in this tutorial.
Parties
Count of parties:
0
Planning
Count of planning activities:
0
Tenders
Count of tenders:
29,387
Count of tenderers:
66,091
Count of tender items:
29,388
Awards
Count of awards:
16,262
Count of suppliers:
16,262
Count of award items:
16,264
Contracts
Count of contracts:
0
Count of contract items:
0
Count of transactions:
0
Documents
Count of documents:
76,198
Milestones
Count of milestones:
0
Amendments
Count of amendments:
44,147
The OCDS data includes over 60 additional fields related to tenders, tenderers, and awards, whose semantics are undocumented and unclear.
Data quality
The dataset has minor issues that should not interfere with most uses. They include:
Some fields are incorrectly formatted:
tender/tenderers/address/postalCode is not a string
awards/title is not a string
tender/tenderers/address/region is not a string
awards/suppliers/name is not a string
tender/tenderers/name is not a string
The tender/tenderers field includes duplicate entries
Last reviewed: Jul 2018
Access data
This OCDS dataset is available for download in JSON, Excel or CSV format. You can download the data for contracting processes in a specific year or for all time.
JSON
Each contracting process is represented as one line of JSON text in the .jsonl file.
The .jsonl file is compressed using Gzip. Windows users need 7-Zip, WinRAR or WinZip to decompress the .gz file.