| The Open Contracting Partnership is pleased to share for
broad consultations the Beta Release of the Open Contracting Data Standard
(OCDS).
The Standard, which aims to enhance and promote disclosure and
participation in public contracting, is a core product of the Open
Contracting Partnership (OCP). The objective of the Data Standard
is to support governments to publish contracting data in a more
accessible, interoperable and useful manner and to enable the widest
possible range of stakeholders to use contracting data
effectively.
This Beta Release of the Open Contracting Data Standard
provides:
- A description of the overall Open Contracting Data Standard Model,
and
- A JSON Schema for open contracting releases and records that
includes a set of recommended fields.
The development of the Open Contracting Data Standard is an
open process and inputs and feedback are encouraged. Although this
will be an ongoing process, those comments provided before September
30 will be more likely to fully inform version 1.0 of the Standard.
These comments will help refine the standard, both the structure and
fields, in preparation for the initial release version.
You can share your comments in two ways:
- Inline comments on the document - Log in to the Open Contracting Data Standard Github site and
then highlight portions of text to add comments. To "reply" to an
existing comment, highlight the same portion of text, and then add
your comment. See instructions at the top of the Github login page for
more help on commenting.
- Mailing list - If you have more general comments that don't fit
well as inline comments, please join the OCDS mailing
list and start a discussion with your thoughts.
We appreciate you taking the time to go through this
information and helping us improve the final details of the Standard
before the launch of the Version 1.0 later this year.
For specific details on the process of the development of the
standard please email [hidden email].
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The Open Contracting Data Standard is a core product of the Open Contracting Partnership (OCP). Version 1.0 of
the standard is being developed for the OCP by the World Wide Web Foundation, through a project
supported by The Omidyar Network and the World Bank. | 
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