Argentina: Dirección General de Compras y Contrataciones (Ciudad de Buenos Aires)
The Buenos Aires City tracks information in a centralized system (RIIC, Registro Informatizado de Información de Contrataciones de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires) within the scope of the Ministry of Finance of the City of Buenos Aires and publishes all contracts related to public goods purchases in the Buenos Aires Compras system.
All the entities from the Public Sector of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, including all government branches and state-owned enterprises, but excluding entities whose financing does not come regularly from the General Budget of Expenditures and Calculation of Resources, are required to use the RIIC for all public contracts. Some contracting procedures are excluded, as described in the purchasing and contracting law of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, notably:
- The locations of services or works for individuals;
- Purchases governed by the petty cash regime;
- Those that the City of Buenos Aires celebrates with foreign states, with entities of international public law and with multilateral credit institutions and those that are financed with resources from the states and/or the entities mentioned in the previous paragraph;
- Those included in public credit operations;
- Those of public works, concession of public works and concession of public services;
- Permits for the use of real estate in the public and private domain of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Power of the City.
- The acts of disposition of real estate owned by the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
The OCDS data includes the contracts for goods and services of the City, from the following procurement methods: “Orden de compra abierta”, “orden de compra cerrada”, “compra unificada”, “subasta inversa” and “Convenio Marco”.
- Available formats:
- JSON
- Excel
- CSV
Overview
- Data date range:
- Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
- Update frequency:
- Monthly
- Main language:
- Spanish
- OCID prefix:
- ocds-bulbcf
- License:
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Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Argentina (CC BY 2.5 AR)
You are free to:
- Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
- Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
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.
- 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://datosgcba.github.io/bac-open-contracting/politica-publicacion/
- Last retrieved:
- Oct 2024 (retrieved monthly)
- Retrieved from:
- https://data.buenosaires.gob.ar/dataset/buenos-aires-compras
Data available
Parties
- Count of parties:
- 23,298
Planning
- Count of planning activities:
- 0
Tenders
- Count of tenders:
- 23,298
- Count of tenderers:
- 0
- Count of tender items:
- 23,298
Awards
- Count of awards:
- 13,835
- Count of suppliers:
- 13,835
- Count of award items:
- 13,835
Contracts
- Count of contracts:
- 13,835
- Count of contract items:
- 13,835
- Count of transactions:
- 0
Documents
- Count of documents:
- 37,133
Milestones
- Count of milestones:
- 0
Amendments
- Count of amendments:
- 0
These extensions are used: signatories for listing contracts’ signatories, and competitive and techniques for describing framework agreements.
Data quality
Summary
The dataset has quality issues to take into account, notably:
- The extendedProcurementCategory codelist has additional fields, such as “Salud” and “Agricultura Ganadería y Espacios Verdes”
- Organization identifiers are not provided for some buyers and procuring entities.
- The format specified for some documents is incorrect. e.g null instead of “txt/html”
- There are some releases with different ocids but with almost the same information
Last reviewed: Aug 2022
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.