UK Government £650 Billion Pipeline.
The UK Government has released plans for the investment of £650 billion of public and private cash into infrastructure projects across the country over the next decade under its new National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline. The investment will support more than 400k jobs between 2021 and 2025, through more than 500 projects.
In 2022 alone, £31 billion ...
You Don’t Care About Open Data.
We only charge for commercial use of our data. Non commercial users get it for free.
That means that our data is open.
If you're a business you probably don't care about the data being open.
But you should.
Here's why.
Every day people are gathering and analysing our data for their own research. That means it gets used a ...
Procurement Transparency Suffers Under Covid-19
Government publishing of procurement notices has fallen significantly following the global spread of Covid-19. The total number of tender notices published globally has fallen by nearly 40%, with the numbers in Asia falling by 68%.
In many cases, the pandemic has forced buyers to focus on emergency procurements, particularly of personal protective equipment for medical staff. These ...
Review All Open Covid Contracts Here
In October, we openly published all the contracts let by the UK public sector around Covid.
In light of today's report by the National Audit Office on their Investigation into government procurement during the COVID-19 pandemic, we thought it useful to share our portal again, with all available published data on government contracts around Covid.
The table is ...
Consultancy contracts published
Today we're publishing all of the recent consultancy contracts for the UK. This data is free to download and reuse.
There has been high levels of interest in the roles that larger consultancies are playing in the delivery of the 'Test and Trace' service here in the UK, so we've decided to publish all of the data ...
Opening Covid Contracts
Today we're openly publishing all of the contracts let by UK public sector for medical equipment and protective workwear. This data is free for anyone to download and reuse in their work.
The data we are publishing is selected on the basis of the category codes that are selected by each buyer when they publish details of ...
Giving Away Data Makes Business Better
-Ian Makgill
Giving away all your data for free sounds like a bad idea, especially when you're a business whose aim is to sell data.
It sounds counter-intuitive, as if our principles have overridden our ambitions and we're doing something that will ultimately damage us.
We sound like people whose hearts rule their heads.
Nothing could be further from the ...
UK Leading Procurement Transparency Alongside Columbia and Ukraine.
By Fiona Hunt.
The recent report on global government spending by Open Contracting Partnership and Spend Network, brought to light for the first time, the extraordinary size of the global procurement market and, alarmingly, the lack of open contracting.
Of the $13 trillion spent per annum by governments globally, only $362billion (2.8%), is published openly. Imagine the increased ...
What Needs To Happen to Open Public Procurement- Skills
-Ian Makgill, Founder, Spend Network.
Our last post on what needs to happen to open procurement covers the skills you need to maintain a procurement publication service. Governments often focus too much on the technology needed to publish procurement data, ignoring the need to maintain and run the service in the long term.
Once set up, you will ...
What Needs To Happen To Open Public Procurement – Technology
-Ian Makgill, Founder, Spend Network
Another key element to open public procurement is technology. Getting data into the public sphere can often be over complicated, but it needn't be. If you already have a system for collecting data on tenders and contracts, you'll need to talk to your provider about making that data available openly. The main ...
What Needs To Happen to Open Public Procurement- Policy
-Ian Makgill, Founder, Spend Network
There are three basic requirements for implementing a contracting transparency initiative, the first is policy.
Creating new policies is easy, as long as you never have to implement them. Creating a policy that is designed to be implemented is much harder. Fortunately, the Open Contracting Partnership have, yet again, done all the heavy ...
How Transparency Benefits Suppliers
Why suppliers gain from better data on their markets.
-Ian Makgill, Founder, Spend Network.
Better information creates better outcomes for those bidding into a market.
Which is why incumbents have a significant advantage going into a tender: they have more information. This asymmetry of information is a particular problem in public sector markets, where the process for providing bidders ...
Our Partnership With Open Contracting
-Ian Makgill, Founder, Spend Network
We're passionate advocates for contracting transparency. Not just because it makes it harder for corrupt officials and their partners, but also because there's good evidence that it makes public markets more competitive and more efficient.
That's why we work so closely with the Open Contracting Partnership, they're the ones doing the heavy lifting ...
Data Quantity on Contracts Finder: The Long View.
Covid-19 has shown us the importance of transparency in procurement. A transparent process allows suppliers and buyers to clearly identify each other, and set benchmarks on how others are buying and selling.
Contracts Finder has made great strides in facilitating this transparency over recent years. The Public Contracts Regulations 2015, an Act of Parliament, established the existence ...
Why Beneficial Ownership Data Should Interest You.
The Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS) is an open data standard for publishing data on company ownership and control. You can find out more about the standard and the initiative to publish BODS data here.
Over 80 countries are already committed to using the standard, so we can expect to see more of this data in the ...