Italy: Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport

The OpenData project by the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport publishes notices, tenders and tender results of public contracts in the infrastructure and transport sectors through the Public Contracts Service database. The OCDS data publication is available through their API.

The Public Contracts Service database is a key component of the OpenData project, managed by the General Directorate for Regulation and Public Contracts. It serves as a repository for notices, tenders, and results of public contracts in the infrastructure and transport sectors. The service helps meet legal requirements for transparency and information sharing as set out in the Public Contracts Code, Legislative Decree 50/2016. The service covers:

  • Publishing notices, announcements, and results of public contracts for construction, services, and supplies (according to articles 29 and 73 of the Public Contracts Code and the Decree from December 2, 2016).
  • Releasing biennial procurement plans for goods and services, and triennial plans for public works projects, including their annual updates (as per article 21 of the Public Contracts Code and a decree dated January 16, 2018, no. 14).
  • Disclosing the documents mentioned in Article 29, paragraph 1, of the Public Contracts Code.

The Public Contracts Service also publishes data for unrealized works and infrastructure projects.

Available formats:
JSON
Excel
CSV
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Overview

Data date range:
Jan 2022 - Dec 2023
Update frequency:
Daily
Last retrieved:
Sep 2024 (retrieved monthly)
OCID prefix:
ocds-8mw9gh
License:
-
Language:
Italian
Retrieved from:
https://www.serviziocontrattipubblici.it/ocds-ms/swagger-ui.html#/v1.0

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:
505

Planning

Count of planning activities:
0

Tenders

Count of tenders:
91
Count of tenderers:
0
Count of tender items:
103

Awards

Count of awards:
215
Count of suppliers:
237
Count of award items:
0

Contracts

Count of contracts:
0
Count of contract items:
0
Count of transactions:
0

Documents

Count of documents:
518

Milestones

Count of milestones:
0

Amendments

Count of amendments:
0

In addition to the core OCDS fields, the Public Contracts Service also publishes other relevant information through OCDS extensions, such as links, pagination, OCDS for the European Union, and lots.

Data quality

Summary

The dataset has quality issues to take into account, notably:

  • Some of the dates relating to stages of the contracting process do not follow a coherent timeline.
  • buyer/id does not match its parties.id
  • Some organizations in the parties section are not referenced, e.g. a procuring entity listed in the parties section is not referenced in the tender section
  • There is some duplication of party ids and supplier ids

Last reviewed: May 2024

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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