Providence City and School Purchase Orders from Fiscal Year 2020

Fiscal Year 2020 onwards, this dataset lists purchase orders from the City of Providence and the Providence Public School District. The data is provided by the City of Providence and was last updated on March 22, 2026. It is available in multiple formats including CSV, JSON, RDF, and XML.

Use Cases

• Analyze municipal spending trends based on purchase order volume and timing
• Identify major vendors and procurement categories for the city and school district
• Conduct fiscal accountability and transparency audits based on public purchase records
• Compare procurement patterns between city departments and the public school system

Strengths

• Data covers two major public entities: city government and the public school district
• Provides multiple machine-readable formats (CSV, JSON, RDF, XML)
• Last updated on 2026-03-22, indicating recent maintenance

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download

Provenance

Source

City of Providence

Collection Method

Administrative records of purchase orders

Time Range

Fiscal Year 2020 onwards

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-22 02:43:43.559327

Geography

Providence, Rhode Island, USA