Nigeria: Budeshi

Budeshi tracks information from over 90 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in Nigeria at the federal level.

The information is obtained through freedom of information requests sent to MDAs in line with the Freedom of Information Act (2011). Budeshi makes over 300 FOI requests yearly and converts the hard copy datasets into OCDS.

Available formats:
JSON
Excel
CSV
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Overview

Data date range:
Sep 2016 - Nov 2021 (This dataset is no longer updated by the publisher)
Update frequency:
Unknown
Last retrieved:
Feb 2022
OCID prefix:
ocds-azam7x
License:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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.

  • ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

  • No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Language:
English
Retrieved from:
https://budeshi.ng/Api

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:
15,933

Planning

Count of planning activities:
3,780

Tenders

Count of tenders:
4,536
Count of tenderers:
0
Count of tender items:
72

Awards

Count of awards:
10,785
Count of suppliers:
10,713
Count of award items:
13

Contracts

Count of contracts:
10,749
Count of contract items:
9
Count of transactions:
0

Documents

Count of documents:
2,960

Milestones

Count of milestones:
0

Amendments

Count of amendments:
0

The publisher provides a tender/tenderers/x_tenderedAmount field and tender/parties object in addition to core OCDS fields.

Data quality

Summary

The dataset has quality issues to take into account, notably:

  • There are some invalid codes in mainProcurementCategory, currency, procurementMethod and status fields, so this data has not been mapped correctly to OCDS closed codelists and may not provide a sound basis for data categorization
  • The data has invalid dates in tender/awardPeriod/endDate, award/date, contract/dateSigned, contract/implementation/documents/dateModifiedandcontract/period` start and end fields so automated processing of all contracting process dates will not be possible
  • The releases field is missing from some records so the source of the record data may not be available for additional scrutiny.
  • Some organization data is given in `tender/parties’ fields, so automated tools extracting information from the correct location will miss this data.

Last reviewed: May 2021

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.

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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