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Procurement Data Crash Course
Procurement Data Crash Course
  • About this course
    • Course introduction
  • Module 1: How the public procurement process works
    • 1.1 Understanding the public procurement process
      • ❓Why the public procurement process exists
      • ⚖️What rules govern the public procurement process?
      • ⚙️RFQ or RFP? An introduction to the different types of tender
      • 📋The key stages of the procurement process
        • 📑Stage 1: Planning
        • 🚴‍♂️Stage 2: Initiation
        • ✔️Stage 3: Selection & award
        • 🤝Stage 4: Contract
        • 🏗️Stage 5: Implementation
      • 🛡️Why monitoring the procurement process is important
      • Test yourself: Understanding the public procurement process
    • 1.2 What does procurement data look like?
      • 💰Budgets & IRPs
      • 📃RFPs & RFQs
      • 🏆Awards
      • 📖Annual Reports
      • 🏛️The Auditor General's report
    • 1.3 Where is public procurement data published?
      • 🔍Where to find procurement data
      • 📚Maintaining your own library of procurement data
    • 1.4 Procurement oversight and monitoring for NPOs and media
      • ✋Procurement oversight guide for CSOs
      • 📺Procurement oversight guide for media
  • Module 2: Working with procurement data
    • 2.1 Whey we need machine readable data
      • Important data formats: CSVs, Excel and Google Sheets
    • 2.2 Turning websites and PDFs into machine readable data
      • Scraping data with Tabula
      • Simple web scraping with Google Sheets
      • Web scraping by inspecting network traffic
  • Useful resources and libraries
    • 3.1 Procurement data online resources
      • Importance reference resources
      • Online data repositories
  • Course testing & feedback
    • 🎓Extended course exam
    • 📝Surveys & feedback
    • ⏱️Quick course exam
  • MODULE4: Explore the OCPO procurement dashboard
    • 4.1 A walk through the OCPO COVID-19 reporting dashboard
      • Summary and Supplier page of the dashboard
      • Find supplier information from external sources
      • Navigating COVID19 Item Spend Page
      • Navigating the Transactions List Page
    • 4.2 Keep the Receipts Tool
      • Background and Introduction
      • Download data from Keep the Receipts
    • 4.3 Using KeeptheReceipts and Google Sheet for Procurement Data Analysis
      • Infrastructure Order Analysis
      • Mask Price Analysis
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  • Find Supplier Information with B2BHint and BizPortal
  1. MODULE4: Explore the OCPO procurement dashboard
  2. 4.1 A walk through the OCPO COVID-19 reporting dashboard

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Find Supplier Information on BizPortal

The official place to look for information about a company is the, this platform is developed by Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC). You can log in the below page with your SA ID number.

Once you are logged in, you will see a button "View BizProfile". Click on it, then select search by enterprise name, type in digital vibes. Click on the returned result Digital Vibes, the company information will show up.

Find Supplier Information with B2BHint and BizPortal

Sometimes Biz Portal doesn't return a company when you search with its name. So it could be hard to find a company based on its name.

Another approach is to search for a company by its enterprise number.

Search for digital vibes on the platform, it will return a few results. We select the South African company from the result list. On the company detail page, we will see the enterprise number, this is the information we are looking for.

We could then search for digital vibes with this information on the BizPortal. On the search page of BizProfile, select search by enterprise no, then paste the copied enterprise number to BizProfile.

Unfortunately, this information is not in the supplier analysis page of the dashboard. We could use to find this information.

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