South Africa: National Treasury
The National Treasury of South Africa via its Office of the Chief Procuremet Officer (OCPO) tracks public procurement data information in the eTender Publications Portal.
As stated in the eTender portal, OCPO has a mandate to_ ensure that public sector organizations in South Africa honour the provisions of the section 217 of the Constitution when spending taxpayer’s money on procurement of goods,services and works. _
The procurement data on the eTender portal includes procurement plans, tender advertisements, awards, and contracts, which are automatically made available on the transparency portal once captured or published.
As state in their publication policy, the data covers entities across all spheres of government that share their procurement data with the National Treasury. This includes organs of state but excludes municipal governments and state-owned entities unless they voluntarily share their data. The data does not represent a complete record of all procurement processes in South Africa due to the voluntary nature of data sharing by some entities. Moreover, the data publication is fully compliant with the Promotion of Personal Information Act (POPIA), ensuring that personal information related to bidders or contractors is excluded unless consent for publication has been given.
- Available formats:
- JSON
- Excel
- CSV
Overview
- Data date range:
- Feb 2017 - Aug 2024
- Update frequency:
- Unknown
- Last retrieved:
- Aug 2024 (retrieved monthly)
- OCID prefix:
- ocds-9t57fa
- 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:
- English
- Retrieved from:
- https://ocds-api.etenders.gov.za/swagger/index.html
Data available
Parties
- Count of parties:
- 4,650
Planning
- Count of planning activities:
- 25,644
Tenders
- Count of tenders:
- 25,644
- Count of tenderers:
- 1,243
- Count of tender items:
- 0
Awards
- Count of awards:
- 4,650
- Count of suppliers:
- 4,650
- Count of award items:
- 0
Contracts
- Count of contracts:
- 581
- Count of contract items:
- 0
- Count of transactions:
- 0
Documents
- Count of documents:
- 26,663
Milestones
- Count of milestones:
- 0
Amendments
- Count of amendments:
- 0
The data does not include any extensions in addition to core OCDS fields.
Data quality
Summary
The dataset has quality issues to take into account, notably:
- There are a few duplicate releases with identical release IDs and content
- The data includes empty fields, empty arrays, and invalid values including:
planning/documents(empty array)planning/rationale(empty string)planning/budget/description(invalid placeholder value e.g. “ - ”)tender/status(empty string)awards(empty array)parties(empty array)contracts(empty array)
- The
partiesarray is missing for a majority of the contracting processes, the organizational IDs for buyers and suppliers can be looked up usingbuyer/idandawards/supplier/idfields, respectively
Last reviewed: Jul 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.