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 - Apr 2024
- Update frequency:
- Daily
- Last retrieved:
- Apr 2024 (retrieved 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:
- Blank: This section is intentionally left blank. The PDDL imposes no restrictions on your use of the PDDL licensed database.
- Language:
- Spanish
- Retrieved from:
- https://ocds.panamacompraencifras.gob.pa/swagger/index.html
Data available
Parties
- Count of parties:
- 919,472
Planning
- Count of planning activities:
- 0
Tenders
- Count of tenders:
- 341,300
- Count of tenderers:
- 70,882
- Count of tender items:
- 1,075,792
Awards
- Count of awards:
- 37,154
- Count of suppliers:
- 37,143
- Count of award items:
- 131,755
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
The dataset has quality issues to take into account, notably:
- The publication includes records containing both duplicated releases and duplicated release identifiers.
- There are discrepancies between the API download alternatives (records, release, and bulk download) in the total quantity of processes they provide. The bulk download option provides the largest number of processes.
- Release tags do not reflect the sections that are provided in each release.
- The
'awards.supplier.id'values do not match any identifier value from the parties array.
Last reviewed: Feb 2023
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.