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Decide if contracts have a place on OS as separate category #15

Closed anderspeders closed 11 years ago

anderspeders commented 11 years ago

In countries like Serbia, Ukraine and many EU member states governments provide access to procurement data (in EU named "contract award notices"), while transactional spending data remains off-limits. One could therefore argue that procurement/contracting data is currently the closest we get to transactional spending in many countries when the alternative is a simple budget.

The question is if OpenSpending, should include such procurement data as these are neither budgetary (as they a legal obligations) nor transactional (as the final price may change, if project goes over budget). Thus: a) Should we include contracts/procurement data (when these have amounts, date, company ID, government ID, etc.)? and if so, b) Would we include a separate category next to budget, expenditure etc.?

rufuspollock commented 11 years ago

Strong +1 on including contracts.

anderspeders commented 11 years ago

I'd then suggest we add an additional category to the upload section called: "Contracts"

rufuspollock commented 11 years ago

OK, sounds like this should now be an issue on https://github.com/openspending/openspending/issues?state=open

Also feel you should raise this on list saying: "Hey, people already use OpenSpending to record info related to contracts and this seems like a good idea and it would be good to support this properly ..."

rufuspollock commented 11 years ago

@anderspeders it would be to get this closed in favour of a specific openspending core ticket :-)

anderspeders commented 11 years ago

@rgrp Was raised and now moving forward with add from Cameroon and France.