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Method: Dates that cannot be right

Award dates printed years before or after the report they appear in.

Why people look at this

A transparency record is only as good as its dates. This is a publishing error, not a spending pattern.

How it is worked out

  1. Provincial awards whose printed award date is after the report's period, or more than three years before it.

Data used

What it cannot tell you

Shown as published; the site does not correct dates.

The Open Contracting Partnership's guide to red flags puts it this way: a red flag is not evidence that anything wrong happened. It points at something that may be worth a closer look.

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