The data publication covers all procuring entities under Section 21 of the Public Procurement and Concessions Act 2010. Information is excluded where disclosure would be contrary to law, impede law enforcement, not be in the public interest, prejudice legitimate commercial interests, or inhibit fair competition under the PPC Act 2010 and Liberia’s Freedom of Information Act 2010.
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:
553
Planning
Count of planning activities:
206
Tenders
Count of tenders:
208
Count of tenderers:
345
Count of tender items:
240
Awards
Count of awards:
22
Count of suppliers:
22
Count of award items:
22
Contracts
Count of contracts:
0
Count of contract items:
0
Count of transactions:
0
Documents
Count of documents:
434
Milestones
Count of milestones:
0
Amendments
Count of amendments:
33
No extensions or additional fields are used.
Data quality
The dataset has quality issues to take into account, notably:
Suppliers’ roles are not set in parties.roles, however you can use awards.suppliers to identify the suppliers
The tender.value.amount field frequently contains the value of 0 USD, which is likely to be a placeholder
Last reviewed: Aug 2025
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.
Each contracting process is represented as one row in the main sheet. Other sheets link to it via the main_ocid column. In general, each sheet is linked to its parent sheet via the [sheet_name]_id 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.
Each contracting process is represented as one row in the main.csv file. Other files link to it via the main_ocid column. In general, each file is link to its parent file via the [file_name]_id 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.