A New Data Architecture for the Israeli Government Procurement Systems

A comprehensive mapping of the Israeli government procurement systems, to define a new data architecture.

The Procurement Agency in the Israeli government hired us to map and analyze the data architecture of the government procurement systems. The goal was to define a new data architecture that would allow for better data analysis and reporting, and to improve the transparency and efficiency of the procurement process.

In order to define the data architecture, we mapped the procurement systems in the government and various ministries according to the definition of the procurement administration. For this process, we used interviews that had already been conducted with some of the system leaders in addition to the completion of procurement administration personnel. The mapping included information about the nature of the system, how the information is stored and where, who the users are, whether there are BI reports today, how to access the information, what the process looks like in the system, and at what stages in the procurement it responds.

Furthermore, an analysis of the specific fields in several key procurement systems was conducted using database schemas (as far as we could get such schemas for information security reasons or other reasons). The fields in the schema were mapped to the Open Contracting Partnership’s information standard so that we could ensure a Proof of Concept (details on this later).