Govwise procurement vocabulary (GPV) - An alternative to the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

Internship Report presented as the partial requirement for obtaining a Master's degree in Information Management, specialization in Knowledge Management and Business IntelligenceIn recent years, the world has witnessed emerging legislation on open data. Some of the main goals include stimulating economic growth with the re-use of the data, addressing societal challenges, enhancing evidence-based policymaking, and increasing efficiency in the public administrations, fostering the development of new technologies, such as AI, along with the enhanced participation of the citizens in political decisions and its transparency (European Commission, Open Data, 2021). Govwise is an Advanced Analytics Platform developed to provide a wide range of data analytics to governmental organizations, via a SaaS model. The goal is to make use of the open data policies, by producing valuable information, tackling the challenges that such a data deluge arises. These challenges constitute the scope of the internship here reported, the whole process is described, starting with the data sources and the respective ETL process, on a more high-level structure, until the production of the analysis and dashboards, that constitute the product of Govwise. The focus will, however, be on the classification model developed to address a major necessity of the company to cluster the portuguese public procurement contracts. These are initially classified with a CPV code (common procurement vocabulary code), which does not satisfy the needs of Govwise. Therefore, the end goal of the model is to generate an alternative classification for contracts and tenders of the portuguese public procurement, the GPV (Govwise procurement vocabulary)