Procurement.gov.ge

Understanding of what we want to have from the procurement site.

• Page with list of tenders
• Example: After clicking one tender
  • This page cannot be printed directly, but can be using their print button (which basically gives the list of all attribute value pairs).
  • It has information in different tabs
  • Every tender has a unique ID: Tender Registration Number SPA130026023
  • I see no direct link between this ID and the webpage of the tender...
  • All information on the tender tab is in the attribute:value format
  • The tender documentation tab contains a searchable PDF. This can be downloaded using the comand below. But the resulting file is not a PDF. wget -O 1385670066.pdf --no-check-certificate "https://tenders.procurement.gov.ge/public/lib/files.php?mode=app&file=615055&code=1385670066"
  • The offers tab has a spreadsheet like format. Or several spreadsheets.
  • The Results tab contains links to documents with an author and a date attached.

Permanent Identifiers

It would be very good if there is a URL which is permanent and which can resolve every tenderID. Something like https://tenders.procurement.gov.ge/public/?tender=SPA130026023&lang=en Problem now is that the ID of the page does not correspond to the ID of the tender. Creates complications.

What TI Georgia likes to have

For every tender a JSON/XML file with all information about the tender. Almost all information has the form of an attribute-value pair. These are easily given in XML or JSON. The list of documents has a more complex structure, so does the list of bids. <tender id='SPA130026023'> <tenderinfo tender_type="Electronic tender" tender_proceeding_status="tender announced" /> <tenderdocumentation> <doc url='URL to PDF' date='' author=''/> .... </tenderdocumentation> <offers> and similar for the offers </offers> <result> ..... </result> </tender>

Identifiers

• Use the company identifiers instead of their names in the documentation on the offers.
• Similarly for the procuring agencies. Thus in the main information tab on the tender instead of Procuring Sub - Department of Cultural Heritage Protection Agency use Procuring 204469280.

Harvesting Protocol

• We would like to have a simple GET based API with the tender ID as a field, and which would give back an XML or JSON file like above.
• We also need to have a daily list of tenderID's which have been changed since last night.
  • New tenders
  • Old tenders for which some data has changed
• In this way, we never need to download information twice, and we can be fairly sure that we have an up-to-date and synchronized copy of the tender database/