City of Boston Buying Plan

The Boston Archive

Dataset

City of Boston Buying Plan

The Buying Plan shows what the City of Boston plans to purchase in the next year. The Buying Plan is intended to give a broad sense of what we are planning to purchase, but have not advertised or published bid documents for. We will continue to add opportunities as more information becomes…

Dataset

Publisher: Office of Economic Development
Spatial coverage: Boston, Massachusetts
Fields: 14
Keywords: budget, buying plan, economic development, procurement, supplier diversity
Publisher's page: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/city-of-boston-buying-plan

Artifacts

“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.

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PDF	referenced	88363	`—`	source
PDF	referenced	60808	`—`	source
PDF	referenced	41605	`—`	source

Column dictionary

The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.

Column	Type	Description
`ID`	text
`Procurement Name`	text
`Procurement Description`	text
`Department`	text
`Category`	text
`Solicitation Opens`	text
`Work Starts`	text
`Work Ends`	text
`Estimated Total Value (Range)`	text
`Expected Procurement Method`	text
`UNSPSC`	text
`Department Contact Name`	text
`Department Contact Email`	text
`Bonding & Prequalification Requirements`	text

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/bd221008bc2c9e4480360f33d555d8ab/city-of-boston-buying-plan-columns.json — 1336 bytes, SHA-256 bd221008bc2c9e44…, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Questions this record answers

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Who publishes City of Boston Buying Plan, and under what license?

Office of Economic Development publishes it. The archive accessioned it under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain), and holds the publisher's own column dictionary verbatim rather than reworded into the archive's vocabulary — how a publisher names a column is evidence about the publisher.