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About the project

Disclosed.ca is a web application that collects and publishes data sets for third party contracts awarded by agencies within the Canadian Government.

On March 23, 2004 the Proactive Disclosure Policy was introduced, requiring every government agency to publish information about third party contracts over $10,000.

Every agency publishes the contract data on their website in HTML format. Here's an example for the Canada Border Services Agency contracts.

There are two problems with this:

1. It is difficult for someone with no programming background to extract and work with this data.
2. It is even more difficult to get access to the big picture (contracts and vendors across agencies)

We use web scraping to make the contract data sets available as csv files. Also, http://disclosed.ca/ has a simple search engine that makes it easy for anyone to browse the contract information.

Who is this for?

Journalists, Academics and curious citizens.

The Future

Hopefully one day this data will be available through the government's Open Data website. More on that: http://data.gc.ca/eng/canadas-action-plan-open-government