A contracting process has several stages: tendering, awarding, contracting and implementation. You can learn about the contracting stages in this tutorial.
The dataset has quality issues to take into account, notably:
Contracts for which the award referenced in .awardID does not exist.
Discrepancies between organization identifiers in the data and in the IDNO register
All contracts have status ‘pending’
The dataset has minor issues that should not interfere with most uses. They include:
Blank and empty fields, including:
bids/details/documents/description
tender/items/deliveryAddress/description
awards/description
tender/documents/description
bids/details/documents
Placeholder values, including:
bids/details/documents/description
bids/details/statusDetails
awards/statusDetails
tender/lots/statusDetails
Awards and contracts for incomplete tenders
Tender amendments with a date which is before the tenderPeriod/startDate
Address data is provided using the addressDetails extension rather than the address.locality, address.region and address.country fields.
Last reviewed: Nov 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.