The Open Contracting Data Standard & the EU:
Current Progress & Future Impact
Agenda:
Today’s Goal:
Understand how Open Contracting builds on EU Procurement Directives & Data Infrastructure to help deliver better outcomes
Public Contracting is often inefficient, mismanaged, and vulnerable to corruption
Why did we need a global data standard for public contracting?
9.5 Trillion USD per year
Unstructured information
Research & Monitoring = difficult
Tools & methodologies = expensive & bespoke
What is Open Contracting overall?
1.
Set policy goals for public contracting. Establishing performance indicators for the procurement process and contract implementation (efficiency, effectiveness, and other policy priorities - environment, inclusion).
2.
Publish complete and timely records as machine readable open data.
Data and documents are often siloed in different systems and institutions. It is important to bring information together into contracting records from planning to contract completion so you can search and filter for the insights you need!
3.
Get people involved.
Consultation and monitoring are important opportunities for business and civil society to help shape better outcomes -- particularly during project planning.
EU procurement strategy
The EU Procurement Strategy promotes:
EU procurement strategy
The EU Procurement Strategy promotes:
EU single market strategy
The EU Single Market Strategy reinforces the objectives of the procurement strategy and adds the importance of:
Contract registers
The European Commission promotes contract registers as good practice for managing and publishing data on public contracts and defines contract registers as follows:
“repositories of information and data on all public contracts awarded under the national public procurement legal framework.
CRs should contain information of the complete life cycle of the contract (planning, pre-awarding, and post-awarding).”
OCDS & Contract Registers
Contract registers
OCDS recommends data to disclose from each stage of the contracting process and can be used to integrate data from multiple systems
e-procurement system
OCDS-based contract register
Data disclosure
Reusable tools and methodologies
Analysis
Monitoring
Re-use
Contract management system
e-invoicing system
OCDS and e-procurement
OCDS is not an e-procurement system, it’s a standard for the disclosure of data...
e-procurement system
Tender creation
Bid submission
Bid evaluation
Vendor management
Contract award
and more…
OCDS
Data disclosure
Reusable tools and methodologies
Analysis
Monitoring
Use
OCDS and e-procurement
...however, mapping against OCDS can help make sure that systems are collecting all the data required for disclosure.
e-procurement system
Tender creation
Bid submission
Bid evaluation
Vendor management
Contract award
and more…
OCDS
Data disclosure
Reusable tools and methodologies
Analysis
Monitoring
Use
TED and OCDS
The OCDS for the EU profile provides a mapping between OCDS and each field and form in TED.
TED <-> OCDS
Case study: UK
Background
2016 OGP commitment
To implement the Open Contracting Data Standard in the Crown Commercial Service’s operations by October 2016;
We will also begin applying this approach to major infrastructure projects, starting with High Speed Two, and rolling out OCDS across government thereafter.
Case study: UK
The journey so far
The future
Improve compliance, coverage and quality of publication to Contracts Finder so that all above threshold public contracts can be tracked from planning to final spending.
Creating a coalition of partners to promote implementation, accessibility and use of open contracting at the local level...
...encourage local authorities to publish all of the data they can
Case study: France
• Standardize the format of data of public call for tenders
• Release in open data the Official Bulletin of Public Contract Declarations (BOAMP) or those from other publication entities
• Encourage increased publicity of awarded public tenders
Background
Case study: France
Open publication of essential data on public procurement, in compliance with OCDS and including all stakeholders.
Journey so far
Ukraine: competition and value for money
ProZorro provides a central database of procurement opportunities.
From January 2015 to March 2017 OCP evaluation shows:
Higher competition leading to 9.7% reduction in cost offers significant savings against the 45% of national budget spent through procurement.
Timely publication of tender opportunities can increase competition.
OCDS data allows comparison of tender/value and awards/value to analyse savings. Clear supplier identifiers assist competition analysis. When items are classified, and units specified, then item level price comparisons across agencies can also be made.
Paraguay: value for money
Open Contracting
in Kyrgyz Republic
Problem: Procurers apparently prefer to use a non-competitive, non-transparent method for low-value procurement. The alternative, competitive method is slow & bureaucratic. This creates barriers for small & medium enterprises, which are crucial to the country’s transition to a market economy.
Solution: Implement open contracting to create a fairer, level playing field for smaller companies to win government contracts.
Progress so far:
Demonstration Dashboard: �How can we use the data?
I asked Camila to look at UK OCDS data and tell me:
Camila, Lead Data Analyst
Dashboard Exercise:
What can data tell us?
This dashboard uses contracting data from the United Kingdom, published using the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS). It includes information about completed tenders and awards related to work procurement (construction, infrastructure, etc) from 2015 to 2019.
AFGHANISTAN | AUSTRALIA | BUENOS AIRES |
CANADA | CHILE | COLOMBIA | COSTA RICA | ECUADOR| ETHIOPIA | FRANCE | GEORGIA | GUATEMALA | HONDURAS | KENYA | KOSOVO | KYRGYZSTAN | LITHUANIA | MONTREAL | MESSINA | MEXICO CITY | MOLDOVA | NETHERLANDS |NEW SOUTH WALES | NIGERIA | PARIS | PANAMA | PARAGUAY | PORTUGAL | PHILIPPINES |
SCOTLAND | TUNISIA UGANDA | UK | UKRAINE | URUGUAY | VIETNAM | ZAMBIA
http://standard.open-contracting.org/review/
calculation of MAPS indicators): https://www.open-contracting.org/implement/#/5
GETTING STARTED!
resource:
Mapping template