"When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be."
Lord Kelvin

Reports

Needle in a haystack – The “Educatio error”, problems in connection with it and their solutions

Some of the information published online in the Public Procurement Bulletin (e.g. call for bids, tender results) is inaccurate. In cases when the Public Procurement Board (PPB) is informed about the error, for example by the issuer, a correction notice is published subsequently (e.g. rectification or modification) (regulations related to this are NFM 14/2010 [October 29th], and in NFM 92/2011 [December 30th]). Nevertheless, in some other cases, the original, incorrect announcement is published in read more

Extracting data from public procurement documents 1998-2004

Although the Hungarian Public Procurement Authority has made all the information publicly available online for the public procurement tenders between 1998 and 2004, the data format is inappropriate for statistical analysis. The information is stored in basic HTML files which does not provide any interface for sorting and searching among the data. In this technical paper we describe our data extraction process which we used to turn the HTML based information into database format by extracting read more

Analysis of the procurement documents interconnectivity 2005-2012

The Hungarian Public Procurement Authority does not have such a database on Hungarian public procurements, that contains the documentation of each public procurement tender in a uniform structure: namely the call for tenders, the contract award notices, the contract fulfilment, and contract amendment notices or corrigenda.

The goal of CRBC is to solve this deficiency: we would like to build a uniformly structured database based on the publicly available documents of the Authority that is suitable read more

The Quality of Hungarian Legistlation 1990-2012. Preliminary Results

This short paper describes some basic characteristics of the Hungarian legislation in 1998-2012 through publicly accessible online administrative data. Our focus is to compare the 2010-2012 period to former years. We assume that these characteristics – the number of days elapsed between submitting a bill and the publication of the final law; the type of the person/organisation who submitted the bill; number of modifications that become necessary a short time after the publication of the law – can read more

Data publication for Hungarian citizens – II.

Data publication for Hungarian citizens – II. Basic data on Hungarian public procurement spending in 2009-2012 using the MaKAB database, January 23 2014 [in Hungarian: Adatközlés a magyar állampolgárok számára – II.  A magyar közbeszerzések alapadatai 2009-2012 a MaKAB alapján, 2014 január 23.].
 “…ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” [J. F. Kennedy]

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Database for download, 24/01/2014 update (files are compressed with rar compression): por, savdtacsvxlsx

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How to Improve the Public Procurement Authority’s Database?

Public Procurement & Grand Corruption: Report 06. How to Improve the Public Procurement Authority’s Database? – An Analysis of the Admin Modul of Public Procurement Portal and improvement suggestions. [in Hungarian: Hogyan lehetne javítani a Közbeszerzési Hatóság közbeszerzési adatbázisát? A Központi Bejelentkező Modul (KBEJ) elemzése, megoldási javaslatok] September read more

Data publication for Hungarian citizens – I.

Public Procurement & Grand Corruption: Report 05. Data publication for Hungarian citizens – I. Basic data on Hungarian public procurement spending in 2010-2011 using the MaKAB database [in Hungarian: Adatközlés a magyar állampolgárok számára – I. A magyar közbeszerzések alapadatai 2010-2011 a MaKAB alapján] February 2013.

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Political Influence in the Public Procurement Market?

Public Procurement & Grand Corruption: Report 04. Political Influence in the Public Procurement Market? Analysis of market shares 2009-2011 – preliminary results, [in Hungarian: Politikai befolyás a közbeszerzési piacon? A piaci részesedések elemzése 2009-2011 - előzetes eredmények], February read more

Public procurement in Hungary 2010-2011

Public Procurement & Grand Corruption: Report 03. Faults, fixes and preliminary results – public procurement in Hungary 2010-2011 (Hibák, javítások és előzetes eredmények – magyarországi közbeszerzések 2010-2011) [Hibák, javítások és előzetes eredmények - magyarországi közbeszerzések 2010-2011] March read more