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)

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Language:
Spanish
Retrieved from:
https://ocds.panamacompraencifras.gob.pa/swagger/index.html

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:
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.

CSV

Each contracting process is represented as one row in the main.csv file. Other files link to it via the _link_main 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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