OCDS guidance for the WTO's Agreement on Government Procurement now available

[James McKinney]

I am pleased to share our guidance on mapping from the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) to OCDS: https://standard.open-contracting.org/profiles/gpa/master/en/

The mapping quotes relevant parts of the GPA, and adds annotations on how to publish the quoted information using OCDS.

This mapping will be especially relevant to GPA parties, and also to countries with trade agreements with GPA parties, given that the GPA's requirements are often included in such agreements.

You might also be interested in reading our guidance on How open data helps WTO GPA objectives, which includes a worked example to calculate a GPA statistical report using Australia's OCDS data.

We did not create any new OCDS extensions for this mapping, given that the GPA's disclosure requirements are a subset of the EU's (the EU is a party to the GPA). You can see our earlier work on mapping EU requirements to OCDS.

I would like to acknowledge the great work by Colin Maudry in completing the profile.

Best regards,

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James McKinney

Head of Data Products and Services

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