Ecuador: Servicio Nacional de Contratación Pública de Ecuador (SERCOP)

The Servicio Nacional de Contratación Pública (SERCOP) began publishing information on COVID-19 emergency purchases made in the Sistema Oficial de Contratación Pública del Ecuador (SOCE). However, it currently publishes its general public procurement data on Ecuador’s open procurement portal.

SERCOP publishes information on the implementation of the pre-contractual and contractual phases of the public procurement procedures carried out in the systems:

Sistema Oficial de Contratación Pública del Ecuador, Módulo de Compras Corporativas del Sector Salud and Módulo de Compras Corporativas de Alimentación Escolar, in Ecuador’s open procurement portal. Information on procurement methods included and other issues in the transformation of the data to be taken into account can be found on the portal’s methodological notes site.

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Excel
CSV
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Overview

Data date range:
Jan 2015 - Nov 2025
Update frequency:
Daily
Main language:
Spanish
OCID prefix:
ocds-5wno2w
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Ecuador (CC BY 3.0 EC)

You are free to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

Under the following terms:

  • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Publication policy:
https://datosabiertos.compraspublicas.gob.ec/PLATAFORMA/documentos/politica-publicacion-SERCOP-OCDS.pdf
Last retrieved:
Nov 2025 (retrieved monthly)
Retrieved from:
https://datosabiertos.compraspublicas.gob.ec/PLATAFORMA/datos-abiertos

Data available

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:
6,685,364

Planning

Count of planning activities:
473,732

Tenders

Count of tenders:
2,611,914
Count of tenderers:
1,880,111
Count of tender items:
1,115,879

Awards

Count of awards:
2,622,341
Count of suppliers:
2,622,334
Count of award items:
3,385,135

Contracts

Count of contracts:
2,535,099
Count of contract items:
0
Count of transactions:
0

Documents

Count of documents:
0

Milestones

Count of milestones:
0

Amendments

Count of amendments:
0

These extensions are used: bids, lots, competitive, enquiries, techniques, value breakdown, and local extensions for auctions and the originally entered award value.

Data quality

The dataset has some quality issues to be aware of, especially:

  • There are repeated id values in awards/items. This duplication comes from the source data.
  • For certain processes, the id of parties does not match buyer/id.
  • In some procurement processes the date of each award and contract is prior to the release date.

Last reviewed: Jan 2022

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.

Excel

Each contracting process is represented as one row in the main sheet. Other sheets link to it via the main_ocid column. In general, each sheet is linked to its parent sheet via the [sheet_name]_id column.

Excel files can have at most 1,048,576 rows. If a year is missing, it had too many rows. Download the CSV files, instead.

CSV

Each contracting process is represented as one row in the main.csv file. Other files link to it via the main_ocid column. In general, each file is link to its parent file via the [file_name]_id column.

The .csv files are archived using tar and compressed using Gzip. Windows users need 7-Zip, WinRAR or WinZip to decompress the .tar.gz file.

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