Canada: Buy and sell

Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) published an OCDS pilot on Buyandsell.gc.ca.

PWGSC is a central purchasing agency on behalf of government departments and agencies

Available formats:
JSON
Excel
CSV

Overview

Data date range:
Apr 2013 - Nov 2015 (This dataset is no longer updated by the publisher)
Update frequency:
Unknown
Last retrieved:
Sep 2022
OCID prefix:
ocds-34a6hz
License:
Open Government Licence - Canada

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Language:
English
Retrieved from:
https://buyandsell.gc.ca/procurement-data/open-contracting-data-standard-pilot/download-ocds-pilot-data

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:
102,799

Planning

Count of planning activities:
0

Tenders

Count of tenders:
16,379
Count of tenderers:
0
Count of tender items:
22,879

Awards

Count of awards:
31,134
Count of suppliers:
31,134
Count of award items:
31,132

Contracts

Count of contracts:
50,107
Count of contract items:
50,111
Count of transactions:
0

Documents

Count of documents:
88,741

Milestones

Count of milestones:
0

Amendments

Count of amendments:
10,848

Data quality

Summary

We have not yet prepared a data quality summary for this dataset.

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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