African public procurement
Helps market-entry teams and DFI analysts read public-spending flows across SADC by normalizing procurement data across publishers so they can size demand and identify suppliers before competitors do.
Tender, award and party records built directly on the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) — with supplier, buyer and monthly roll-ups, and natural-person parties stripped from every published table.
Proof: 275,733 tenders · 2,247 distinct buyer names · 44,310 awards · organizations only (natural persons structurally excluded) · refreshed from the live OCDS feed · live metrics /v1/quality-metrics/af-tender · 4 provenance guarantees
What buyers do with AF-TENDER.
Demand sizing
A strategy team totals category spend by country before market entry. Output: CSV + report. Value: a defensible TAM in an afternoon.
Supplier & buyer intelligence
Rank counterparties from award and roll-up tables — who wins, who buys, at what cadence. Output: API / Parquet. Value: counterparty maps without manual collation.
Public-spend tracking
Monitor category and buyer flows as tenders publish — reallocation patterns surface in the monthly roll-ups. Output: API / MCP. Value: early reads on spending shifts.
Tenders, awards, parties — and the analytics on top.
Tenders
One row per ocid — title, status, category, value and buyer, sourced from the official OCDS release feed.
Awards & parties
Award values and the organizations behind them. Party records are classified; natural persons are excluded from publication.
Analytics
Pre-built supplier, buyer and monthly roll-ups so you can rank counterparties and track spend over time without rebuilding the joins.
Data dictionary (core tender table).
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
ocid | string | Open Contracting ID — the globally unique process identifier. |
country | string | ISO country code of the procuring jurisdiction. |
title | string | Tender title as published. |
status | enum | Tender status from the OCDS release. |
category | string | Procurement category (goods / works / services). |
value_amount | number | Tender value where disclosed. |
value_currency | string | ISO currency of the value. |
release_date | date | OCDS release date. |
buyer_name | string | Procuring entity (organization only). |
source_ref | string | Reference back to the OCDS release package. |
license_class | string | License Register code (OCDS feed is openly licensed — see Trust). |
Party tables carry a party_type classification (organization / natural_person / unknown). Only organization parties reach the published product — enforced in the model layer, not by convention.
Validate the OCDS lineage yourself.
Like every Certvas product, AF-TENDER ships with its dictionary, a provenance annex and a measured metrics file. The free sample lets you validate the OCDS lineage and the natural-person exclusion for yourself.