Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) (csv subset) – public procurement notices

TED - Contract award notices 2006. TED data has multiple levels. Contract awards (CAs) is the fifth section of a CAN standard form. Each CAN has one or more CAs. ID_award_ca is an ID of a CA.

These levels serve different purposes. To give an example, a CAN generally informs on the result of the procurement (“The ministry has bought furniture”); and the three individual CAs, nested within the CAN, inform about the specific detail (“The ministry has bought a chair from company A”; “The ministry has bought a table from company B”; “The ministry has bought a cupboard from company B”).

2.6. Older data has lower quality, because the data collection structure was less developed (see “XSD_version” variable in the codebook below). Furthermore, in September 2008, the common procurement vocabulary was changed . For these reasons, it may often be best to only use data from 2009 onwards.