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The full text of municipal contracts with vendors, including the amount, awardee (name, address), and date awarded. The data should include if there have been changes to a contract, with information on the final payments as well as the initial contract award amount. Contracts should also be categorized according to the type of purchase and the purchasing department or agency. (More info)
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licensed | No | Falls under the copyright of the Price George's Country website (all rights reserved) and does not state other license for the PDF not ebid data. |
| Available in bulk | Yes | Yes the PDf list, no for the additional details from the ebid site. |
| Up-to-date | No | It is difficult to determine the frequency of updates given the month of March just began and the current document available is as of January 2018 and not having any previous versions of the document linked. |
| Available free online | Yes | Available as a PDF download from the PG County website. |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| In an open format | PDF only | |
| findable | 1 | Didn't immediately return in the search queries and only identify able as a "related document" on the bottom of the office page. Found the PDF easily, but to try to get at the award details. Look through the bid and awards website which links to a registration to get at further award details such as bid open, meeting, and close date. There is some information called plan/spec cost noted as well in the ebid interface. |
| findable_steps | Queried the PG County website for procurement contracts and navigated through the pages to find the office which happens to link to the document then searched for the bidding information to see if further details were available | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 1 | Requires extraction from PDF |
| collector_name | Prince George's Contracts Administration and Procurement Office | Also states Office of Central Services on the PDF of the contracts, but says to contact the Contracts Administration and Procurement Office for information. |
| characteristics | Purpose or description, Awardee | The ebid site says when the bidding closes, but not the award date. The PDF only states contract end date. Neither disclose the award amount that I could locate. |
| location | https://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/834/Contract-Admi - PG County website with link to procurement PDFs, https://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/DocumentCenter/Vi - PDF of PG County current contracts as of January 2018, https://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/DocumentCenter/Vi - PDF of forecasted procurement contracts and incumbent contractors for those if applicable, https://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/Bids.aspx?CatID=s - Contracts awards search view | Lists available in PDF format, but with selectable text for extraction. Only other access is an embedded search results for contracts and often award details are linked, but behind registration for an ebid site. |