New York City Procurement Spending By Agency And Industry

Procurement data for New York City agencies is aggregated by industry for fiscal years 2011 through 2014. The dataset, published by data.cityofnewyork.us, contains annual contract values and counts. It was last updated in February 2020.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in procurement value by industry using the '2011 FY Value', '2012 FY Value', '2013 FY Value', and '2014 FY Value' columns.
• Compare the volume of contracts awarded by different agencies to specific industries using 'Agency' and the 'FY Count' columns.
• Identify which agencies had the largest changes in procurement spending between fiscal years by comparing value columns across consecutive years.
• Assess industry concentration in public contracts by calculating the share of total 'FY Value' or 'FY Count' per industry.

Strengths

• Provides multi-year coverage with data for four consecutive fiscal years (2011-2014).
• Includes both monetary value and transaction count metrics for procurement analysis.
• Data is sourced from the official New York City open data portal (data.cityofnewyork.us).

Limitations

• Data is stale, with the latest fiscal year covered being 2014 and no updates since February 2020.
• The dataset lacks row count and sample data, making it impossible to assess its completeness or granularity.
• No information is provided on the specific industry classification system used.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofnewyork.us

Collection Method

Aggregated summary of procurement transactions.

Time Range

Fiscal years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

Freshness

Last updated 2020-02-08; update frequency is null.

Geography

New York City, USA