Why Good Data Matters.
Not all data is the same. It might have come from the same source, but how it gets treated is vital. If a data company doesn't have good data hygiene practices things can get messy very quickly, making it hard to understand the data or undermining your valuable analysis.
These are our rules for ensuring data integrity:
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Why Good Data Matters More Than Ever
Governments spend a lot.
How we spend this money is important for a whole slew of reasons.
We often overlook how effectively procurement functions on a day to day basis. In most countries, our streets are lit, our roads are repaired, our hospitals have drugs and public websites are accessible for all to use. This may feel like ...
Using Government Procurement Data To Propel Growth
In a world of data-driven decision-making, businesses are constantly seeking information to drive growth and competitive advantage. One highly beneficial resource is government procurement data. Accessing and analysing this data can provide companies with invaluable insights, enabling them to identify new opportunities to sell to government, while expanding their customer base, optimising their operations, and ultimately ...
Transforming Public Procurement-Consultation Open
in December 2020, we shared the UK Government's Green Paper consultation on ‘Transforming Public Procurement’ which outlines proposed measures to be included in the Procurement Bill. The Government’s response to the consultation was published in December 2021 including an analysis of 600 responses from government, industry, trade bodies and others. The Procurement Bill was then introduced ...
Deduplication Routines
Deduplication is a deceptively complex problem to handle at scale. There’s a simple, ugly and brutal way to do it, where you compare two records and determine if they are exactly the same, but this doesn’t work if the records are very slightly different. A missing comma is enough to render that algorithm useless.
Doing deduplication properly ...
Get Your Data Sorted.
We collect tens of thousands of documents every day.
We visit more than 700 sources to collect this data.
That's what our customers pay us for: the right data, in the right place at the right time, which means their customers can navigate the complex world of public procurement.
Getting the right data in the right place takes more ...
The Key To A $13trn Market Is Just A Login Away
Developers are a precious resource. You want them deployed on the most critical projects and for their time to be best used.
But what if you had the data on a server ready to go? If your only barrier to millions of tenders, contracts and spend records is a login and password ? What if this data ...
Data Works: Ensuring Quality Through Validation
When is something right?
We process over 150,000 records a month. Our database now has more than 150m rows in it. We can't view every record when we enter it.
Instead, we validate it. We check that each record has what our users need; a deadline date, a description and a buyer.
We also check that our key sources ...