FOPPA: an open database of French public procurement award notices from 2010-2020.

ABSTRACT: Public Procurement refers to governments' purchasing activities of goods, services, and construction of public works. In the European Union (EU), it is an essential sector, corresponding to 15% of the GDP. EU public procurement generates large amounts of data, because award notices related to contracts exceeding a predefined threshold must be published on the TED (EU's official journal). Under the framework of the DeCoMaP project, which aims at leveraging such data in order to predict fraud in public procurement, we constitute the FOPPA (French Open Public Procurement Award notices) database. It contains the description of 1,380,965 lots obtained from the TED, covering the 2010-2020 period for France. We detect a number of substantial issues in these data, and propose a set of automated an

SUBMITTER: Potin L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10199036 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature