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:
5,255
Planning
Count of planning activities:
3,525
Tenders
Count of tenders:
3,525
Count of tenderers:
0
Count of tender items:
3,525
Awards
Count of awards:
3,525
Count of suppliers:
1,730
Count of award items:
0
Contracts
Count of contracts:
3,525
Count of contract items:
0
Count of transactions:
1
Documents
Count of documents:
3,525
Milestones
Count of milestones:
6,202
Amendments
Count of amendments:
0
The location extension is used, and there is one additional field, parties/details/femaleChaired, to identify female-chaired user committees.
Data quality
Summary
The dataset has quality issues to take into account, notably:
parties/identifier/id is set to null for some organizations. Therefore, organization names should instead be used to disambiguate organizations.
There are no differences between award.date and contract.dateSigned.
The dataset has minor issues that should not interfere with most uses. They include:
Award values incorrectly formatted as strings rather than numbers.
The data includes blank or empty fields and arrays, including:
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.