Delaware State Government Current Contracts

Delaware's data.delaware.gov publishes a weekly updated list of active state contracts. It includes details like Contract Title, Agency, Contract Number, and key dates. The dataset is sourced from the Delaware Bids & Contracts platform.

Use Cases

• Analyze procurement trends by Agency and Expiration Date to forecast contract renewals.
• Categorize contracts by UNSPSC code to understand spending distribution across product/service categories.
• Identify contracts with Extension Available flags for potential renewal planning.
• Monitor the volume of active contracts via the Count field for workload or budgetary analysis.
• Track contract lifecycle using Effective Date and Expiration Date to assess average contract duration.

Strengths

• Updated weekly, ensuring current contract information.
• Contains 11 distinct columns including contract identifiers, dates, and categorization codes.

Limitations

• Unknown total row count and temporal coverage range.
• Sample data unavailable, preventing assessment of data completeness and value distribution.
• Potential geographic bias limited to Delaware state government contracts.

Provenance

Source

data.delaware.gov, sourced from Delaware Bids & Contracts platform.

Collection Method

Aggregated from postings on a government procurement platform.

Freshness

Weekly updates

Geography

Delaware, USA