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 - Jan 2024
Update frequency:
Unknown
Last retrieved:
Feb 2024 (retrieved monthly)
OCID prefix:
ocds-gyl66f
License:
http://nocopo.bpp.gov.ng/license
Language:
English
Retrieved from:
http://nocopo.bpp.gov.ng/OpenData.aspx

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:
29,881

Planning

Count of planning activities:
25,136

Tenders

Count of tenders:
5,706
Count of tenderers:
0
Count of tender items:
12,949

Awards

Count of awards:
5,549
Count of suppliers:
5,549
Count of award items:
0

Contracts

Count of contracts:
5,467
Count of contract items:
12,310
Count of transactions:
4,014

Documents

Count of documents:
0

Milestones

Count of milestones:
77,676

Amendments

Count of amendments:
0

BPP does not publish extensions or additional fields.

Data quality

Summary

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/date fields 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 _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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