OCDS for the Agreement on Government Procurement

To promote open, fair and transparent competition in government procurement markets, a number of World Trade Organization (WTO) members negotiated the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA).

This website provides guidance on how to publish Open Contracting Data Standard data in a way that is consistent with the rules established in the text of the Agreement (PDF). It quotes parts of the GPA, adding annotations on how to publish the information using OCDS.

• Annotated Revised GPA
  • Article VII Notices
  • Article IX Qualification of suppliers
  • Article X Technical Specifications and Tender Documentation
  • Article XIII Limited Tendering
  • Article XIV Electronic Auctions
  • Article XVI Transparency of Procurement Information
• Common operations
  • Create a release

You might also be interested in How open data helps WTO GPA objectives: Step-by-step guidance.

Technical reference

• Reference
  • Schema
  • Codelists
• Changelog
  • 2020-09-14

We want your feedback!

To contribute, please first read this page, and then dive into the guidance. Feedback is discussed openly on GitHub. To browse all issues or to open another issue, visit this website's GitHub issues. You can also send feedback privately to data@open-contracting.org.