Field report 8 · Data sources and registers
Finding public tenders: when portals draw the line
How public tenders from many portals add up to one picture that matches your own profile.
- Status
- Built Built and proven in our own use.
- Published
- Publisher
- SIMO GmbH, Aschaffenburg, Germany
Starting questionHow do we combine public tenders from many portals into one picture that matches our profile?
What we built
We built a search service across numerous procurement and project portals, with caching, text extraction from documents and matching against our own capability profile.
Each portal was tested live for its technical hurdles. Two portals first rated as hard to connect turned out to be easy on a second look.
What it means for business architecture
Data sources differ in how you reach them and in what they are worth. An honest assessment of what a source adds saves effort on integrations that deliver little.
Learnings
- A diagnosis, once made, deserves a second look when assumptions change. Two of our assessments were wrong.
- Many portals overlap in content. The added value of yet another source is often small.
- Behind a login, the question becomes one of terms of use, not of technology.
- public tenders
- procurement portals
- data sources
- situational picture