The European Commission has selected Amazon Web Services and NTT Data to implement the Public Procurement Data Space initiative, which aims to provide authorities in European Union member states with streamlined access to public procurement data.
Currently, such information can be accessed through the Tenders Electronic Daily portal but only 20 percent is searchable due to data fragmentation. Procurement data is distributed across different systems, which have varying standards and formats, preventing an EU-wide analysis of public procurement activity, trends and insights to inform policymaking and public spending.
Under the partnership with the EC, AWS and NTT Data will address the issue through the creation of a PPDS platform hosted on the AWS Cloud infrastructure. The platform will incorporate AWS cloud services, namely the Amazon Elastic Container Service, Simple Queue Service and Simple Storage Service, and tools that enable integrating, visualizing and analyzing data from various sources.
With the platform’s deployment, the accessible procurement data is expected to increase to 100 percent. Besides informed policymaking and decision-making, providing consolidated data will also result in enhanced procurement processes and outcomes, easier access to public procurement contracts for small and medium enterprises, and public spending transparency, AWS said.