Dataset
City of Boston Discretionary Spending
The City of Boston reports on our discretionary spending as part of our commitment to transparency and to growing pathways to equitable procurement for diverse suppliers. This dataset contains all discretionary spending data from Fiscal Year 2019 - Fiscal Year 2026, Quarter 3. Discretionary…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Procurement & Supplier Diversity
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 13
- Keywords
- Equitable Procurement, Procurement, Supplier Diversity
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/city-of-boston-discretionary-spending
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 | unavailable | 148864857 | — | source |
| referenced | 36250 | 92cabf3a8241a639d0fc920f3d33546b29162e400a1172ec7c54dad45cda0bac | 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 |
|---|---|---|
voucher_voucher_id | text | |
voucher_line_voucher_line_num | text | |
distrib_line_distrib_line_num | text | |
fy_voucher_entered_dt | text | |
fyq_voucher_entered_dt | text | |
vendor_name1 | text | |
distrib_line_account | text | |
gl_account_tbl_descr | text | |
distrib_line_deptid | text | |
dept_tbl_descr_3_digit | text | |
distrib_line_monetary_amount | text | |
city_or_state_mbe_wbe_certified | text | |
city_slbe_sbe_certified | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:city-of-boston-discretionary-spending
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/city-of-boston-discretionary-spending
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/city-of-boston-discretionary-spending.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-discretionary-spending
- 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 |