> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://openup.gitbook.io/training-content/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://openup.gitbook.io/training-content/procurement-data-crash-course/useful-resources-and-libraries/3.1-procurement-data-online-resources/online-data-repositories.md).
# Online data repositories
## Open data portals and platforms
### What is a data repository?
A data repository is a large database infrastructure — or several databases — that collect, manage, and store data sets for data analysis, sharing and reporting.
* A data repository is also known as a data library or data archive. This is a general term to refer to a data set isolated to be mined for data reporting and analysis.
### What is open data?
* Open data is data that is openly accessible, exploitable, editable and shared by anyone for any purpose, even commercially. Open data is licensed under an open licence.
### **Where to find procurement data in open data portals and platforms?**
Following concerns about misuse of funds allocated for emergency spending, The Office of the Chief Procurement produces dashboards which cover spending related to [Covid-19 procurement](http://ocpo.treasury.gov.za/COVID19/Pages/Reporting-Dashboard-Covid.aspx) and [disaster response funds](http://ocpo.treasury.gov.za/COVID19/Pages/Reporting-Dashboard-DisasterResponse.aspx) (such as recepts from flooding in kwaZulu Natal).
While these dashboards are excellent, accessing the underlying data can be tricky. For this reason, OpenUp maintains a repository of data which is collected from the COvid-19 dashboard at [Keep The Receipts](https://keepthereceipts.org.za/).
## Other important **general repositories** and resources
### Contextualising South Africa
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### **South African Budget Data Portals**
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### Raw data files of procurement data
* [**Public sector tender data**](https://data.openup.org.za/dataset/public-sector-tender-data)
* [**OCPO COVID19 procurement data**](https://data.openup.org.za/dataset/ocpo-covid19-procurement-reporting-dashboard-data)
* [**OCPO Disaster response procurement data**](https://data.openup.org.za/dataset/disaster-response-procurement-data)
### National Treasury procurement **data**
* [**Disaster Response Transactions Dashboard**](http://ocpo.treasury.gov.za/COVID19/Pages/Reporting-Dashboard-DisasterResponse.aspx)
* [**Government wide Covid-19 Transactions Dahsboard**](http://ocpo.treasury.gov.za/COVID19/Pages/Reporting-Dashboard-Covid.aspx)
* [**Transversal Contracting — Publication of Bidders**](http://www.treasury.gov.za/divisions/ocpo/ostb/bidders/default.aspx)
* [**Database of Restricted Suppliers**](http://www.treasury.gov.za/publications/other/Database%20of%20Restricted%20Suppliers.pdf)
* [**Deviations and Expansions Data** ](http://ocpo.treasury.gov.za/Suppliers_Area/Pages/Deviations-and-Exspansions.aspx)
* [**Procurement Watch Report on Procurement Risk Trends by Corruption Watch**](https://www.corruptionwatch.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/ProcurementWatch-report-revised-version-11Nov.pdf)
### **The E-tender portal**
* [**Public sector tender opportunities in South Africa**](https://www.etenders.gov.za/)
### Auditor-General South Africa
* [**Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) consolidated general reports**](https://www.agsa.co.za/Reporting/PFMAReports.aspx)
* [**The Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA) consolidated general reports**](https://www.agsa.co.za/Reporting/MFMAReports.aspx)
* #### [Special audit reports (including COVID-19 audit reports)](https://www.agsa.co.za/Reporting/SpecialAuditReports.aspx)
### **Entrepreneurship**
Company information is useful when we are trying to know better about a supplier (its director, areas of businesses etc.)
* [**B2BHint**](https://b2bhint.com/en) **(Company info)**
* [**BizPortal**](https://www.bizportal.gov.za/login.aspx) **(CIPC portal for company registration information)**
* **World Bank** [**Doing Business Data**](https://www.doingbusiness.org/en/data/exploretopics/entrepreneurship) **and** [**New Business Density Survey**](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IC.BUS.NDNS.ZS)
* [**Global Entrepreneurship Monitor**](https://www.gemconsortium.org/data) **(GEM) Data**
* [**Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute**](https://thegedi.org/datasets/) **(GEDI) Data**
### **Other examples of useful data sources or resources**
* [**Procurement module of Vulekamali**](https://vulekamali.gov.za/datasets/procurement-portals-and-resources/)
* [**OpenUp data portal**](https://data.openup.org.za/dataset)
* [**Nemisa k4i Digital Skills Survey**](https://surveys.4irdigitalskills.co.za/index.html)
* [**OpenGazettes**](https://openup.org.za/projects/open-gazettes)
* [**CIPC Business and IP Search**](http://www.cipc.co.za/index.php?cID=251)
* **Open Knowledge Foundation** [**Global Open Data Index**](https://index.okfn.org/place/)
* [**UN Data**](http://data.un.org/)
* **University of Cape Town’s** [**DataFirst**](https://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/dataportal/index.php/catalog/central/about) **microlibrary**
* **African Development Bank’s** [**Data Portal**](https://projectsportal.afdb.org/dataportal/?lang=en)
* **National Research Foundation (NRF)** [**South African Data Archive**](http://sada.nrf.ac.za/)
* [**Open Data Africa**](https://opendataforafrica.org/data#menu=topic)
* [**OpenAfrica Data Portal**](https://africaopendata.org/)
* **National Research Foundation (NRF)’s Committee on Data for Science and Technology’s** [**Database of Data Resources in Africa**](http://stardata.nrf.ac.za/html/fastlinkDatap.html)
* **Africa: Tracking Internet Progress in** [**Data & Numbers**](https://www.oafrica.com/data/)