The European Commission unveiled, on Thursday 16 March, its plan to create a European data space for public procurement data.
This, and the accompanying analytical toolkit, should be in place by mid-2023 to make public procurement data published at EU level available in the system. By the end of 2024, all participating national publishing portals should be connected. The toolbox would also be expanded.
In concrete terms, the aim of the Public Procurement Data Space would simply be to pool...