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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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  1. Useful resources and libraries

3.1 Procurement data online resources

This lesson is not structured as a learning programme. It is a collection of resources that you wll find useful as you begin to work with procurement data. We've included important lists of guides and reference materials, as well as portals where you will find procurement data ready to download.

These list will be continually updated. If you know of a resource that we have missed, please let us know!

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