EUROPEAN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT DATA STRATEGY

European Public Procurement Data Strategy

Start date :2021
End date :
Name of responsible governmental body :
  • DG GROW (;)
Description :
  • The European Public Procurement Data Strategy will define the building blocks and objectives for a European Public Procurement Data Space.
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Objectives:
  • The European Public Procurement Data Strategy (European PPDS) will define the building blocks and objectives for an end-to-end digital Common European Public Procurement Data Space, with the aim to bring together EU public procurement data, national public procurement data and other datasources so that informative and analytical power of otherwise dispersed data repositories can be enriched. The European PPDS will establish a set of initiatives and a roadmap to meet that objective in line with the Digital Public Procurement Policy in the EU, the EU public procurement legal framework, and the European Strategy for Data.
  • According to the European strategy for data (Feb 2020): “The data spaces for public administrations will […] focus on law and public procurement data”, while a data initiative for public procurement should cover „both the EU dimension (EU datasets, such as TED) and the national ones”
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Estimated budget expenditure (range per year):
  • 1M-5M
Background including shifts in the policy initiative:
  • Today the public procurement data landscape consists of multiple sources of data that is generated at various stages of the procurement process (i.e. in the pre-award, award and post-award phases) by actors at all levels of government across Europe (local, regional, national and EU-level). The Public Procurement Directives have established a framework for data sharing at EU level that specifies obligations for information on public procurement procedures to be shared when the value is above a specific threshold. Contracting authorities can share information on procedures below the threshold value at EU level on a voluntary basis or publish these on national portals (e.g. open data portals), however, such data can also be kept in national databases that may not be directly openly accessible. In addition, there are tertiary data sources that can enrich the view on public procurement data when integrated appropriately, such as data from various government registers (e.g. contract registers, business registers, social security, tax, etc.) as well as private sector data (e.g. private databases containing financial information and corporate ownership links, sectorial information, geospatial data, etc.). Bringing together these sources can open a wide array of possibilities for further data analytics and the use of more advanced analytics capabilities (including Artificial Intelligence capabilities) to gain more insights from the vast amount of data that is generated in the domain of public procurement.
Policy initiative is a structural reform:
  • No
Evaluated:
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Funding from the private sector:
  • No
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National strategies, agendas and plans

  • Type : National strategies, agendas and plans
  • Name in English : DEP
  • Country : European Union
  • Strategy mainly prioritises : Connectivity and digitalisation
  • Societal challenge(s) emphasised : Other
  • - Other : Digitalisation of the public administration
  • Implementation mechanism : Dedicated budget allocations
Last updated : Jul 5, 2024
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