African Data Revolution: Survey
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All tenders and awards of the national/federal government aggregated by office. Do not consider procurement planning or other procurement phases. Open procurement data may enable fairer competition among companies, allow to detect fraud, as well as deliver better services for governments and citizens. The Index draws on work from the Open Contracting Partnership.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available free of charge | Yes | Users can view the data on the website without needing to subscribe or register. |
| Downloadable | No | Data is only available on the Public Procurement Authority's website and there is no data-set or publication available for download with the information. |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | No | There is no explicit open licence specified, nor is there any legal framework specified in this regard. |
| Up-to-date | Yes | Data is up to date with information on currently open government tenders and all closed and awarded tenders. |
| In an open and machine-readable format | Other | The data is only available as HTML on the website. |
| location | href="https://www.ppaghana.org/tender_search.asp?Ministry=%25&Region=%25&District=%25&Agency=%25&Industry=%25&Submit=Search" https://www.ppaghana.org/tender_search.asp?Ministry=%25">rel="nofollow">https://www.ppaghana.org/tender_search.asp?Ministry=%25 - This web page gives a list of all open tenders, href="https://www.ppaghana.org/contractdetail.asp?Con_ID=7180" https://www.ppaghana.org/contractdetail.asp?Con_ID=7180">rel="nofollow">https://www.ppaghana.org/contractdetail.asp?Con_ID=7180 - This web page gives a list of all contracts awarded. | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | I searched for government procurement data in Ghana. The top and most relevant hit was that of the Public Procurement Authority. Upon exploring the website, I located the procurement data. | |
| characteristics | Tender name & description, Award announcement, Supplier's name | Tender status is not explicitly given, although it is implied by the tender closing date given. Value of award is only specified in the information on contracts that have been awarded. |
| Controlled access | Yes | |
| Collector name | Public Procurement Authority | The body was established through an act of parliament in 2003 (Act663) in a broader exercise to improve the overall public financial management in the country. |