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.
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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
There is an additional tender/tenderers/x_tenderedAmount field and tender/parties object.
Data quality
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.