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.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSV | referenced | 207855 | b4e089c817d78e99ffc3170c9c477303f54a2a5cc42f7b665cd6740a85bab6b8 | source |
| CSV | referenced | 136308 | d891300b992e9eb1254134d899a2b5ac2f8b83af848fe4e2f558d95a6a10145a | source |
| CSV | referenced | 60998 | 6bd5a5cf642f8a2681954707780bf6c52e6ec29bbc6173b5f42d330b0fb72196 | source |
| referenced | 88363 | — | source | |
| referenced | 60808 | — | source | |
| 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 |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:city-of-boston-buying-plan
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/city-of-boston-buying-plan
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/city-of-boston-buying-plan.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- city-of-boston-buying-plan
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |