Guatemala: Ministerio de Finanzas Públicas
The Ministerio de Finanzas Públicas tracks information in the Sistema de Información de Contrataciones y Adquisiciones del Estado “Guatecompras” procurement system.
All public bodies in Guatemala, from the national to local levels, including all government branches NGOs that receive public funds and other public state entities are required to use Guatecompras for the purchase, sale and contracting of goods, supplies, works and services, as per the Article 1 of the Decree number 57-92 of the Congreso de la República de Guatemala. The value thresholds by procurement method include:
- “Baja cuantía”: from Q.00.01 to Q.25,000.00;
- “Compra directa”: from Q.25,000.01 to Q.90,000.00;
- “Cotización” from Q.90,000.01 to Q.900,000.00;
- “Licitación”: from Q.900,000.01 onwards.
The OCDS publication excludes the following information:
- Information on contests with Guatecompras Operation Number (NOG) prior to 2020-01-01.
- Publications of the Número de Publicación Guatecompras (NPG) module of GUATECOMPRAS.
- Publications of execution and payments corresponding or registered in the administrative financial systems of the Sistema de Gestión, Sistema de Contabilidad Integrada, Sistema de Contabilidad Integrada de Gobiernos Locales (SIAF).
The excluded information can be consulted in the publication policy.
- Available formats:
- JSON
- Excel
- CSV
Overview
- Data date range:
- Jan 2020 - Aug 2024
- Update frequency:
- Daily
- Last retrieved:
- Aug 2024 (retrieved monthly)
- OCID prefix:
- ocds-xqjsxa
- License:
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
You are free to:
- Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
- Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.
Under the following terms:
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Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
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No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
- Language:
- Spanish
- Retrieved from:
- https://ocds.guatecompras.gt/descarga-datos
Data available
Parties
- Count of parties:
- 4,336,352
Planning
- Count of planning activities:
- 0
Tenders
- Count of tenders:
- 1,064,210
- Count of tenderers:
- 1,940,337
- Count of tender items:
- 1,921,001
Awards
- Count of awards:
- 814,027
- Count of suppliers:
- 814,028
- Count of award items:
- 0
Contracts
- Count of contracts:
- 52,280
- Count of contract items:
- 0
- Count of transactions:
- 0
Documents
- Count of documents:
- 3,753,379
Milestones
- Count of milestones:
- 0
Amendments
- Count of amendments:
- 0
Besides core OCDS fields, Guatemala also publishes other relevant information through some OCDS recommended extensions, such as bids and status details. They also use community extensions to disclose data related to item attributes, among others.
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.