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.
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.