The project was developed on Open Data Day Hackathon 2017 to solve the challenge Enabling Awardee Search under the theme Public Procurement.
Challenge: Enabling Awardee Search
Type of challenge: Visualization
Description of challenge
Awardee in every procurement includes those who wins/gets the contract. They are the suppliers that may lie in the form of companies, joint ventures (J.V.). They have a legal status i.e. registered according to law and pay taxes to the government.
The objective of the challenge is to build a powerful tool that can keep track on the contract winning companies of J.V. in particular. The following issues would be important to look into at:
- General Info
- Frequency of bidding and winning the bids along with nature of work, date etc
- Legal status of such a company. For e.g. look further into who owns the company (beneficial ownership) in real
- Search if the awardee company has been a party in any cases in the court of law or blacklisted in the past.
Look for
- Name of the winning bidder (the company or the joint venture (JV)); frequency of the winning can be seen if available
- Other Company Related Data could be assessed with the list of blacklisted companies by PPMO or Nepal Kanoon Patrika, Supreme Court of Nepaland some data related to the companies
- Verified tickmark for companies that are registered with Office of the Company Registrar.
- Complete details
- Rating
- Winning vs Applied bids
- Bidding streak
- Clone this repository to your local machine.
- In the directory where you placed the cloned repo, create a virtual environment for Python and project dependencies in a directory called "venv":
pip install virtualenv
virtualenv venv- Activate your virtual environment
source venv/bin/activate- Install Flask and all required packages:
pip install -r requirements.txt- Fire up your local webserver:
python app.py- In a web browser, go to localhost:8000, and you should see the development site! Please not that the terminal window you are running the development site in must stay open while you are using the site.
- When daily development is complete, terminate the local web server by typing
CONTROL + C. Also deactivate the virtual environment:
deactivateThis project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.