Chile: Dirección de Compras y Contratación Pública - API
The Dirección de Compras y Contratación Pública (Chile Compra), publishes their contracting information through the site Mercado Público.
Law 19,886 regulates the procurement of goods and services of 850 institutions of the State administration, including ministries, intendancies, municipalities, public hospitals, armed forces, state universities, decentralized public services, and the Comptroller General of the Republic, among others. Each of these agencies is responsible for its bidding processes, which must be carried out through the platform Mercado Público, managed by the ChileCompra Directorate.
Public companies are excluded from this law so they are not obliged to use Mercado Público, and so their data is not being published by this portal.
The armed forces must procure everything through Mercado Público except for war material. Agencies executing public works (Ministry of Public Works, Ministry of Housing, and Urbanism) are obliged to procure everything through Mercado Publico except for public works.
All procurement methods but “Compra ágil” are published in their OCDS API: Licitación (tender), Trato Directo (direct negotiation), and Convenio Marco (framework agreement). Licitación has data from 2009, while the Framework Agreements and Direct Negotiation have data from 2019.
However, their API is slow (it can take more than a month to download all the available data), so we only download data from 2022 onwards.
- Available formats:
- JSON
- Excel
- CSV
Overview
- Data date range:
- Jan 2022 - Nov 2024
- Update frequency:
- Real time
- Main language:
- Spanish
- OCID prefix:
- ocds-70d2nz
- License:
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- Publication policy:
- https://api.mercadopublico.cl/APISOCDS/Utilidades/Politicas/Actualizacion
- Last retrieved:
- Nov 2024 (retrieved every 6 months)
- Retrieved from:
- https://datos-abiertos.chilecompra.cl/descargas/procesos-ocds
Data available
Parties
- Count of parties:
- 9,141,075
Planning
- Count of planning activities:
- 0
Tenders
- Count of tenders:
- 3,912,370
- Count of tenderers:
- 1,759,116
- Count of tender items:
- 1,946,412
Awards
- Count of awards:
- 3,880,871
- Count of suppliers:
- 3,941,018
- Count of award items:
- 10,387,324
Contracts
- Count of contracts:
- 5,523
- Count of contract items:
- 11,299
- Count of transactions:
- 0
Documents
- Count of documents:
- 3,454,262
Milestones
- Count of milestones:
- 0
Amendments
- Count of amendments:
- 0
Besides core OCDS fields also publishes other relevant information through some OCDS extensions, such as budget breakdown, location, planning items, and a local extension to disclose the date of creation of the contract.
Data quality
The dataset has quality issues to take into account, notably:
- Some awards have multiple suppliers, but a single contract is associated with the award. As such, it isn’t possible to determine the awarded value and items for each supplier.
Last reviewed: Oct 2021
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. Download the CSV files, instead.