Finance Procurement Contracts
Contracts
by Local Government Association (LGA)
The Local Government Transparency Code requires that governments publish details of contracts, commissioned activity, purchase orders, and other agreements with a value exceeding £5,000. The Local Government Association developed a common format for local councils to publish contracts, providing a data template as well as a standardized schema for local governments to use
Assessment
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Open License Yes
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Transferable to Other Jurisdictions No
Field headers use British government and business terminology
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Stakeholder Participation Yes
The Local Government Association consists of local government officials who collaborate to develop best practices for local authorities, the would-be stakeholders.
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Consensus-Based Governance No
Although schemas and documentation are held on GitHub, changes can only be decided by the LGA
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Extensions No
The schema contains many optional fields, but additional fields are not supported.
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Human Readable Yes
CSV template has readable headers
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Machine Readable Yes
CSV format required
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Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data No
Contract and spending data are released quarterly
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Metadata No