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International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective

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Quality Issues of Public Procurement Open Data

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The previous decade has witnessed numerous open data initiatives by various levels of government around the globe to promote transparency and accountability. One crucial area is government spending or public procurement. This paper reports on an attempt to utilize purchasing data published under the international open data program of the European Union aimed at making available all expenditure data over certain thresholds from 33 European countries. The data had been planned to be used in research aimed at investigating spending and contract awarding patterns within the EU. However, the structure and quality of the data as it has been published in CSV format leave questions about accountability, and this paper serves as a functional primer warning beginner-users of the experientially-based issues of utilizing this and other open data. Key messages include that given its size and complexity this dataset is not for the faint of heart and that no current quality frameworks appear readily able to help.

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Acknowledgments

This paper has been written with the support of the National University of Public Service in the framework of the priority project KÖFOP-2.1.2-VEKOP-15-2016-00001 titled “Public Service Development for Establishing Good Governance” - Ludovika Digital Governance Research Group. The authors wish to thank the staff of the European Commission for use of the TED csv dataset and also acknowledge the contribution of Prof. Clifford McCue of Florida Atlantic University.

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Csáki, C., Prier, E. (2018). Quality Issues of Public Procurement Open Data. In: Kő, A., Francesconi, E. (eds) Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective. EGOVIS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11032. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98349-3_14

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