The OpenTender platform – run by the Government Transparency Institute – collects, transforms and publishes contracting data from 35 jurisdictions: 27 European Union (EU) member states, EU Institutions, Georgia, Iceland, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, and the UK. The data come from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) and from national procurement portals.
The data from TED covers contracts whose monetary values exceed the thresholds set by EU directives. The thresholds are adjusted for inflation every 2 years.
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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:
1,086,226
Planning
Count of planning activities:
0
Tenders
Count of tenders:
566,336
Count of tenderers:
0
Count of tender items:
1,399,021
Awards
Count of awards:
534,428
Count of suppliers:
522,555
Count of award items:
310,345
Contracts
Count of contracts:
0
Count of contract items:
0
Count of transactions:
0
Documents
Count of documents:
1,187,564
Milestones
Count of milestones:
0
Amendments
Count of amendments:
0
The dataset also includes other relevant information through some OCDS recommended extensions, such as lots, bids, and requirements.
Data quality
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.