public procurement data eu
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Public procurement Data
Tenders Electronic Daily DatabaseTED
Public Procurement?
• The procedure through which public authorities, using public money, purchase works, services or supplies from the private sector.
• Principles: Transparency, non-discrimination, equal treatment, proportionality
Public Procurement!
• Why is it so important: around 14% of the GDP of the EU is spent via public procurement.
• Why is it interesting? – Large amounts of data are being generated daily, which indicate trends in public investments, how this part of the market performs, as well as problems and deficiencies of the system.
Tenders Electronic Daily - TED
• This is an online version of the 'Supplement to the Official Journal' of the EU.
• Covers: notices from the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
• Around 1.700 notices each day• For above threshold (5,2m € works, 135k €
services and supplies, with some exceptions)
Tenders Electronic Daily - TED
• Many below-threshold notices are also present, non-obligatory.
• Data provided "as is", sometimes with mistakes as given by contracting authorities. Current steps being taken to clean up (if you want to clean up a lot for your projects, please contact us - synergies)
Tenders Electronic Daily - TED
• The data comes from public procurement standard forms, based on EC Regulations filled in by contracting bodies and sent to TED.
• The data is in (CSV) format.• The variables correspond to the fields in the
forms – There are 3 levels: Contract Award Notices (CAN) – result, Contract Awards (CA) – within a CAN, and Contract Notices (CN) – future
• Usually enough to work in CANs
Tenders Electronic Daily - TEDWhat information is interesting:Who is buying?What are they buying?Who responds and participates?Who is awarded the contract in the end?Which procedure, which award criteria?What is the value of the contract?For ease of classification of the "what", CPV codes are used: http://simap.ted.europa.eu/cpv
How to get involved
The European Commission is interested in the results of research on public procurement.
We would be grateful to receive any output based on the data (e.g. papers, reports, links to applications) at [email protected].
More information: TED Wiki
To support the exchange of ideas, especially between practitioners and academics, the Commission hosts an open wiki with ideas for research questions and existing examples of reuse related to this dataset. This website can be a useful inspiration for instance if you are a student looking for a thesis topic.
Thank you!
DG GROW: Sandro Čavrak G1, Jachym Hercher [email protected] Links: https://open-data.europa.eu/en/data/dataset/ted-csv https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/EPROC/TED+Open+Data+Wiki.