TheyBuyForYou: Enabling Procurement Data Value Chains

The release of a growing amount of open procurement data means that we are increasingly able, and even have the obligation, to scrutinize and analyse public spending for delivering better quality of public services, optimizing costs, preventing fraud and corruption, and building healthy and sustainable economies. The TheyBuyForYou project addresses this challenge by developing an integrated technology platform, with a cross-lingual and cross-border procurement knowledge graph, core services, open APIs, and online tools, and validating them in several business cases in public/corporate procurement in Slovenia, Spain and Italy. This paper gives an overview about the project’s goals and challenges.