Open Contracting Data Standards

Assessment

• Open License Yes

• Transferable to Other Jurisdictions Yes

  Goal of project is to develop a standard that can be adopted across national borders

• Stakeholder Participation Yes

  Publishers actively engage communities and businesses interested in adopting the standard. Publishers collaborated with stakeholders in order to develop the 'OCDS Demand-side Assessment'. This assessment is meant to address real world needs of publishers and users of public contracting data

• Consensus-Based Governance Yes

  The OCP is committed to the Open Stand principles for standards development. The standard is developed with: Due process, broad consensus, transparency, balance, and openness. Governance of the standard may soon begin to follow formal standards processes (such as an OASIS standard) in its upcoming release

• Extensions Yes

  This standard has a sector specific extension

• Human Readable Yes

  Standard states an objective of being easily understandable. Provides key terms and background on the procurement contracting process

• Machine Readable Yes

  The Open Contracting ID (OCID) is a globally unique identifier. OCDS is based on a JSON schema

• Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data No

• Metadata Yes

  Standard has a .json metadata package. As a globally unique identifier to identify the data package