France: Direction interministérielle du numérique et du système d'information et de communication de l'État (DINSIC)

The Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Recovery collects, processes and publishes data in various formats including OCDS.

The ministry collects data from the following data sources:

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.

Available formats:
JSON
Excel
CSV

Overview

Data date range:
Nov 1980 - Aug 2024
Update frequency:
Daily
Main language:
French
OCID prefix:
ocds-78apv2
License:
Licence Ouverte / Open Licence

The “Open License” has the following characteristics:

  • Great freedom to re-use information: An open, free and free license, which provides the necessary legal certainty for producers and re-users of public data;
  • Promotes the broadest reuse by authorizing the reproduction, redistribution, adaptation and commercial exploitation of data;
  • 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.
Publication policy:
https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/donnees-essentielles-de-la-commande-publique-fichiers-consolides/
Last retrieved:
Dec 2024 (retrieved monthly)
Retrieved from:
https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/donnees-essentielles-de-la-commande-publique-fichiers-consolides/

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:
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

There is one additional field, decpUID, which is the unique identifier for the corresponding record in the source data, Données essentielles de la commande publique (DECP).

Data quality

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

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.

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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