Colombian State Virtual Store Purchases in Palmira, 2015-2022

Colombian public procurement records from the State Virtual Store (TVEC) platform for the municipality of Palmira. The dataset covers purchase orders from 2015 to 2022 and is published by the Colombian open data portal. It includes columns for order date, instrument, state entity, purchase order number, status, description, and total amount.

Use Cases

• Analyzing procurement trends over time using the Fecha de la orden and Total columns.
• Identifying the most active state entities in procurement using the Entidad Estatal and Orden de Compra columns.
• Classifying purchase order statuses (Estado) based on their descriptions (Descripcion) and instrument types (Instrumento).
• Forecasting quarterly public spending in Palmira using the Fecha de la orden and Total columns from the 7-year time series.

Strengths

• Covers a 7-year time range from 2015 to 2022.
• Includes key procurement details like order total, status, and entity across 7 available columns.
• Data is provided in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co (Colombian open data portal).

Collection Method

Likely extracted from the Tienda Virtual del Estado Colombiano (TVEC) procurement platform.

Time Range

2015 to 2022.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 19:05:59; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Palmira, Colombia.