Feature request: historical opportunities [government product owner, vendors, public]

[mark-a-wilson]

User Stories

As a vendor, I would like to see which of my competitors are being awarded opportunities, what amounts they are being paid, and what work is being delivered for that money.

As a vendor who has been awarded an opportunity in the past, I would like to be able to refer to the terms of the opportunity, and also be able to point new prospective clients to work that we have been awarded and delivered for the Province of British Columbia.

As a government product owner who is interested in posting a CWU or SWU opportunity, I want to be able to see past opportunities that have been offered so I can get a sense of how I might compose my opportunity.

As a concerned taxpayer, I would like to know that my government is being transparent about the money they are spending through procurement, who they awarding it to, and for what.

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I would like to be able to peruse past opportunities and:

• Sort all of the opportunities that have been awarded by ministry (see what opportunities my ministry has awarded in the past)
• Read the full content of the opportunity as it was posted (i.e. all of the Acceptance Criteria, Proposal Eval criteria in the case of CWU)
• See the award amount
• See the name of the vendor/individual who was awarded the opportunity
• See the number of proposals that were submitted
• Find a link to where the work that the opportunity is paying for is being delivered (i.e. link to the public GitHub repo where the work is being delivered)

[dy2288]

Is this something that is on the backlog / roadmap? Aside from the transparency it provides, BCDevExchange historic data was extremely valuable for research and for inspiration for future opportunities.

[dhruvio]

@dy2288

AFAIK it is currently not on the roadmap to incorporate the historical BCDevExchange data into the Digital Marketplace web app. Note that my team (Real Folk) is a vendor, and we can not speak on behalf of the Province or make decisions re: scope and budget. I will bring this up in our next internal product meeting though.

In addition, I am noting some previously-discussed ideas for publishing this data for posterity (in order from least effort to most effort):

1. Host an archived, read-only version of the old BCDevExchange web app as a reference of historical opportunities.
2. Create a new, simple archival website that simplifies the presentation of historical opportunities from the old BCDevExchange website (avoids ongoing overhead of maintaining the old BCDevExchange infrastructure).
3. Migrate the historical opportunities from the BCDevExchange web app to the Digital Marketplace web app.