[okfn-discuss] Good News regarding Open Procurement Data in Switzerland

Wed Dec 17 15:14:01 UTC 2014

Hello Muriel,

This is great news. I think it might already have been sharing on this
list, but in case not, the recently launched Open Contracting Data Standard
could be useful in operationalising some of this. Details and documentation
at http://standard.open-contracting.org/

One of the things we worked hard to do in building the standard and
specification was to combine technical field-level specs for representing
data, with some more policy oriented implementation guidance at
http://ocds.open-contracting.org/standard/r/1__0__RC/en/implementation/publication_levels/
which sets out different levels of breadth and depth of publication that
authorities can move towards.

All the best

Tim

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Muriel Staub <muriel.staub at opendata.ch>
wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> we’re glad to inform you that the Swiss Council of States approved a
> motion which calls for the "publication of the basic data of all
> procurements done by the Swiss Federal Government being higher than 50’000
> Swiss Francs (~42’000€)“.
> The need to lower the threshold from 230’000 CHF (WTO standard) to 50’000
> CHF is mainly the result of past misemployment. As a consequence of the
> acceptance of the motion, future illegitimate breakdown in smaller mandates
> (below the threshold of 230’000) which are assigned to the same company are
> going to be uncovered and de facto impossible.
>
> The motion was handed in by the co-president of the swiss parliamentary
> group „digital sustainability“, Edith Graf-Litscher, at the beginning of
> this year. After the Swiss Federal Council suggested the acceptance of this
> motion, the National Council approved it in June 2014 and the Council of
> States did likewise last week.
>
> The legal basis for this adoption will be provided with the revision of
> the Ordinance on Government Procurement. Furthermore the requirement for
> open publication of procurement data will be integrated in the general
> terms and conditions of the Confederation.
>
> Our very best wishes from Switzerland,
> Muriel for Opendata.ch
>
> Muriel Staub
> Opendata.ch
> Swiss Chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation
> muriel.staub at opendata.ch
> +41 79 752 78 69
>
>
>
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