Rwanda: Public Procurement Authority (RPPA)

The Rwanda Public Procurement Authority (RPPA) makes procurement data available through the Umucyo OCDS portal, with the aim of making all information on public procurement accessible online and in open formats to benefit all stakeholders in the public procurement domain, including economic operators, bidders, public procurement entities, oversight agencies, civil society organizations, and the public.

The dataset covers all central and local government agencies in Rwanda, excluding security organs procuring classified items. Smaller entities below the district level, such as sectors, health centres, and schools, do not use the system for procurement, although they report offline activities. All procurement processes with values starting from 3,000,000 RWF are included. Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are excluded from the data publication. The data covers procurement processes conducted via open, selective, and direct tendering methods. As per RPPA’s legal mandate, the dataset includes tender and award data for each contracting process. Where available, contract data is also provided.

Available formats:
JSON
Excel
CSV
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Overview

Data date range:
Jul 2016 - Sep 2024
Update frequency:
Daily
Main language:
English
OCID prefix:
ocds-ozzobm
License:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 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

The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

Under the following terms:

  • 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.
  • NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
  • ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
  • No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Publication policy:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jWmaDd-Or5XWtxA9Bq6kL7BhrisKCmGO/edit#heading=h.3as4poj
Last retrieved:
Dec 2024 (retrieved monthly)
Retrieved from:
https://ocds.umucyo.gov.rw/OpenData

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:
87,767

Planning

Count of planning activities:
53,570

Tenders

Count of tenders:
25,980
Count of tenderers:
0
Count of tender items:
274,957

Awards

Count of awards:
47,142
Count of suppliers:
47,142
Count of award items:
0

Contracts

Count of contracts:
29,115
Count of contract items:
361,674
Count of transactions:
0

Documents

Count of documents:
143,618

Milestones

Count of milestones:
0

Amendments

Count of amendments:
0

These extensions are used: techniques, pagination. The lots and the submission terms extensions are used but not declared in the package metadata.

Data quality

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

  • Values of contracts/value/amount are sometimes not commensurate with the values of awards/value/amount, with discrepancies exceeding the range of 50% to 150% of the award value.
  • The total value of the top 1% of the fields contracts/value/amount and awards/value/amount is higher than that of the remaining values, indicating the presence of extreme outliers in those fields.
  • The top 3 specific values for tenders and awards each occur in more than 10% of cases, potentially suggesting the use of defaults or placeholder values during data entry. This may potentially skew data analysis toward these frequent values.
  • The value of the numberOfTenderers field is sometimes not equal to the number of entries in the tenderers array.

Last reviewed: Dec 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. Download the CSV files, instead.

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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