The data is not exhaustive: some portals are not harvested yet.
The decree of April 14, 2017, amended by the decree of July 27, 2018, entered into force on October 1, 2018, obliged the 70,000 French public buyers (communities, ministries, public hospitals, etc. ) to publish essential data of their public contracts on their buyer profile for contracts over 40,000 euros.
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It is part of an international context by being compatible with the standards of Open Data licenses developed abroad and in particular those of the British government (Open Government License) as well as other international standards (ODC-BY, CC-BY 2.0).
A strong requirement of transparency of data and quality of sources by making compulsory the mention of authorship.
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:
1,103,147
Planning
Count of planning activities:
0
Tenders
Count of tenders:
0
Count of tenderers:
0
Count of tender items:
0
Awards
Count of awards:
519,020
Count of suppliers:
584,127
Count of award items:
517,829
Contracts
Count of contracts:
519,020
Count of contract items:
517,829
Count of transactions:
0
Documents
Count of documents:
0
Milestones
Count of milestones:
0
Amendments
Count of amendments:
0
The data includes a field “decpUID” with the unique ID (French scope) of the source data object.
Data quality
Summary
The dataset has quality issues to take into account, notably:
There are some releases with unlikely dates, including years 5021 and 2921
There are a few organizations with non-unique identifiers due to data source issues, so it is not always possible to uniquely identify organizations.
Release tags do not always reflect the data that is contained within releases
The “decpUID” additional field is not documented
Last reviewed: Mar 2020
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.