Putting Open Contracting Data to Work

Open contracting is the idea that procurement information — from planning through implementation — should be published as open, structured data. IPW supports the approach because it turns thousands of scattered tenders into something analysable: repeat winners, price outliers, and unusually concentrated markets become visible at scale. For a small watchdog, structured open data multiplies what a handful of monitors can review, and it lets journalists and researchers build on each other's work.