"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

Analysis of the procurement documents interconnectivity 2005-2012

Publications, Reports

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 for statistical analysis.

This study is a by-product of this work and it analyses the connection problems of the – otherwise inconsistent – public procurement documents that are managed by the Hungarian state. The following document pairs will be discussed: call for tenders  – contract award notices; corrigendum – call for tenders; corrigendum – contract award notices; contract amendments – contract award notices ; contract fulfilment – contract award notices.

We know that this work would not be our job, but the Hungarian state’s.

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