EU starts project to link procurement data from three countries

Belgium, France and Ireland are set to connect their public procurement data to a shared European system. The European Commission and the OECD launched an EU-funded project in Paris to make the links, according to a November 10 notice from the Commission’s Public Buyers Community.

The project is intended to make it easier to compare government purchasing across countries. The Commission says national procurement data are currently fragmented. Its announcement gives no date for the three connections to go live.