Creating a Pan-European Public Entities Register: Spend Network’s Data Enrichment Solutions

Spend Network is an organisation specialising in collecting, standardizing, and disseminating procurement data on a global scale. It maintains the largest Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) database, comprising over 180 million lines of information from more than 100 countries. This extensive dataset provides valuable insights into the USD 13 trillion global public procurement market, enabling transparency and accountability. Spend Network offers services to both public and private sectors, helping them to analyse procurement activities, ensure compliance, and foster market competitiveness.

Spend Network’s role in the EnRichMyData project involves leveraging its extensive procurement data expertise to create the European Register of Entities from Known Actions (EUREKA). The organisation will utilise its data collection, standardisation, and reconciliation capabilities to build and maintain an open, comprehensive, and structured register of European public bodies. This register will support various use cases, including government collaboration, private-sector market analysis, and citizen engagement. Spend Network will also integrate enRichMyData tools to enhance data processing, enrichment, and commercialisation efforts.

This initiative addresses the current lack of an open, structured, pan-European registry of public entities, which is critical for various stakeholders, including government departments, private companies, NGOs, and citizens. The primary goal is to use procurement data to identify, validate, and maintain an authoritative list of public entities, facilitating better cross-border collaboration, market analysis, and public accountability.

Spend Network’s existing procurement dataset, which includes over 180 million lines of data from more than 100 countries, will form the backbone of this register. The data will be enriched and validated using the enRichMyData toolbox, which includes tools for discovering new data sources (DiscoverR), extracting and profiling entity information (ProfilR), cleansing data (CleanR), linking records to existing datasets (LinkR), structuring data (StructR), and more. These tools will help ensure the data is accurate, comprehensive, and up-to-date.

The EUREKA register will be accessible in two formats: an open-access platform for NGOs, journalists, researchers, and citizens, and a commercial offering for private and public sector bodies. The commercial service will provide bulk data packages through APIs or CSV exports and business intelligence tool integrations. This dual approach will enable widespread use and ensure financial sustainability through revenue generation.

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