Nigeria: Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP)
The Bureau of Public Procurement tracks information in the Nigeria Open Contracting Portal (NOCOPO).
The NOCOPO portal, conceived by the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) in line with Section 5(r) of the Public Procurement Act, 2007, was co-created with Civil Society Organisations in fulfillment of Commitment 2 of the Nigeria National Action Plan of the Open Government Partnership. The Public Procurement Act applies to all procurement of goods, works and services carried out by the Federal Government of Nigeria and all procurement entities, excluding the procurement of special goods; works and services involving national defense or national security unless the President’s express approval has been first sought and obtained.
- Available formats:
- JSON
- Excel
- CSV
Overview
- Data date range:
- May 2021 - Nov 2025
- Update frequency:
- -
- Main language:
- English
- OCID prefix:
- ocds-gyl66f
- License:
- http://nocopo.bpp.gov.ng/license
- Publication policy:
- http://nocopo.bpp.gov.ng/policy
- Last retrieved:
- Dec 2025 (retrieved monthly)
- Retrieved from:
- http://nocopo.bpp.gov.ng/OpenData.aspx
Data available
Parties
- Count of parties:
- 114,401
Planning
- Count of planning activities:
- 98,844
Tenders
- Count of tenders:
- 17,557
- Count of tenderers:
- 0
- Count of tender items:
- 46,135
Awards
- Count of awards:
- 17,362
- Count of suppliers:
- 17,362
- Count of award items:
- 0
Contracts
- Count of contracts:
- 17,018
- Count of contract items:
- 43,331
- Count of transactions:
- 13,606
Documents
- Count of documents:
- 0
Milestones
- Count of milestones:
- 296,502
Amendments
- Count of amendments:
- 0
No extensions or additional fields are used.
Data quality
The dataset has quality issues to take into account, notably:
- There are inconsistencies in some date values. For instance, the earliest award date is December 31st, 1949, and the latest is November 25th, 2919.
- There are no
release/datefields before 2021-05-01, and the majority are on the same day (2021-05-03), so they may reflect internal data updates rather than the date the information was first released or published. - The publication policy does not describe the publication details (how the OCDS data is generated, the publication formats, and the frequency of updates), the data scope, the possible uses of the data, or exclusions and omissions, among other relevant information for users.
- Some contracting processes include multiple releases to update the process information. However, in some cases, the releases do not provide an update or additional details.
- 93 contracting processes include an incorrect prefix in the ‘ocid’ field.
Last reviewed: May 2023
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 main_ocid column. In general, each sheet is linked to its parent sheet via the [sheet_name]_id column.
Excel files can have at most 1,048,576 rows. If a year is missing, it had too many rows. Download the CSV files, instead.
CSV
Each contracting process is represented as one row in the main.csv file. Other files link to it via the main_ocid column. In general, each file is link to its parent file via the [file_name]_id 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.