Panama: Dirección General de Contrataciones Públicas
The General Directorate of Public Procurement (Dirección General de Contrataciones Públicas) tracks information about public procurement processes in their electronic procurement system (Panamá Compra) and publishes open contracting data in “Panamá Compra en Cifras”.
The publication includes contracting data from local and centralized government agencies in Panamá without amounts thresholds restrictions, including all procurement processes but framework agreements. Panamá’s OCDS publication is updated weekly through a process that gets “Panama Compra” registries and standardizes them before publication.
- Available formats:
- JSON
- Excel
- CSV
Overview
- Data date range:
- Jan 1900 - Feb 2023
- Last retrieved:
- 25 Feb 2023
- Update frequency:
- Monthly
- OCID prefix:
- ocds-emvi6n
- License:
-
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (ODC PDDL)
You are free:
- To share: To copy, distribute and use the database.
- To create: To produce works from the database.
- To adapt: To modify, transform and build upon the database.
As long as you:
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- Language:
- Spanish
- Retrieved from:
- https://ocds.panamacompraencifras.gob.pa/swagger/index.html
Data available
Parties
- Count of parties:
- 1,745,792
Planning
- Count of planning activities:
- 0
Tenders
- Count of tenders:
- 544,467
- Count of tenderers:
- 656,858
- Count of tender items:
- 2,021,977
Awards
- Count of awards:
- 25,213
- Count of suppliers:
- 25,207
- Count of award items:
- 87,632
Contracts
- Count of contracts:
- 0
- Count of contract items:
- 0
- Count of transactions:
- 0
Documents
- Count of documents:
- 0
Milestones
- Count of milestones:
- 0
Amendments
- Count of amendments:
- 0
Besides core OCDS fields, DGCP also publishes additional bid details through the Bid statistics and detail extension.
Data quality
Summary
We have not yet prepared a data quality summary for this dataset.
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 _link_main column.
Excel files can have at most 1,048,576 rows. If a year is missing, it had too many rows.