Why people look at this
Sections 31 and 32 of the Public Procurement Regulations set a 15-day window for reporting an award to the Chief Procurement Officer and another 15 days for publishing it. How long awards actually take to appear is a measure of how current the public record is.
How it is worked out
- Days from the printed award date to the end of the reporting period of the report it appears in.
- Flagged at more than 90 days.
Data used
What it cannot tell you
Some printed dates are typing errors, which look like very late or future awards. Those are listed under the date check instead.
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.
This page and the calculation are generated from one definition, so they cannot drift apart. See the results.