Brazil: Medicamentos Transparentes

PNCP publishes all their contracting data as open data in their portal. However, most of the items are not classified under a common classifier that could be used to identify if the purchased items are medicines or no. Every month, TB collects new tenders and awarded items from the PNCP public endpoints. Then, among all the items available, they filter medicine items based on the presence of active ingredients in their descriptions. Then, they use a language model (LLM) to associate each PNCP item with an item from the Materials Catalog adopted by the Federal Government (CATMAT) (identified by codeBr), based on the similarity between the descriptions. Contracts are available for items described as drugs and medicines under Class 6505 of CATMAT. The project was developed by Transparência Brasil with the support of the Open Contracting Partnership and in partnership with the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) and the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services (MGI).