January 2, 2024

Dataset Disclosure for Study of Hajdu, M. & Tóth, I.J. (2023). Corruption Risk and Education at the Regional Level.

Datasets (ZIP [CSV] & ZIP [CSV])

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June 1, 2022

Public contracts in CSV and DTA format with data description (zip)

Suggested citation:

CRCB. 2022. Disclosure of Hungarian Public Procurement Data 2005-2021. Budapest: Corruption Research Center Budapest. June 1, 2022.

May 23, 2022

Public contracts in CSV and DTA format with data description (zip)

Suggested citation:

CRCB. 2022. Disclosure of Hungarian Public Procurement Data 2005-2021. Budapest: Corruption Research Center Budapest. May 23, read more

CRCB is committed to foster transparency and access to public information.

The importance and benefits of governmental transparency, open government, and digital governance have been widely discussed. The disclosure of public data is an important goal supported by international organizations, governmental partnerships, and global civil society organizations (Open Government Partnership, European Commission, The World Bank, and OECD).

Based on the expectations of OECD digital openness and read more

2019. szeptember 10.

A közbeszerzési adatok rendezett formában, adattáblában való közlésével a CRCB segíteni szeretné a magyar állampolgárok tájékozódását.

Véleményünk szerint az az adatközlési forma a legjobb, amely áttekinthető és megkönnyíti a szerződés szintű adatok statisztikai elemzését. Mindez a transzparenciát és korrupció elleni fellépést szolgálja. A transzparencia ugyanis nagyon fontos eszköz a korrupció elleni fellépésben. Minél read more

April 2, 2019

One of the aims of CRCB is to improve the transparency of the public procurement in EU and to help the researchers, the journalists and other stakeholders have access to public procurement data. Accordingly, we decided to make a part of public procurement database built by CRCB easy accessible and publish some main indicators of public tenders of Croatia: the publication date, the name of issuer, the name of winner, the contract value, e.t.c. We used the webpage of the Croatian Public Procurement Authority read more

One of the aims of CRCB is to improve the transparency of the Hungarian public procurement and to help the researchers, the journalists and other stakeholders have access to public procurement data. Accordingly, we decided to make a part of uncleaned version of public procurement database built by CRCB accessible and publish some main indicators of public tenders: publication date, name of issuer, name of winner, contract value, number of bidders, and the links of tenders on the Hungarian Public read more

The database created by CRCB contains contract level data of public procurement of Zagreb from January 2011 to September 2017 with balance sheet data of the winner companies.

The project was commissioned for the Centre for Peace Studies, Zagreb. The research was part of project under grant awarded by Central financing and contracting Agency  (CFCA) of Republic of Croatia, reference: EuropeAid/135874/ACT/ID/HR, Building Local Partnerships for Open Governance and Fight against Corruption in read more

September  18, 2017

The head of CRCB participated as an expert in the consultation with the Commission of Budgetary Control of the European Parliament on Monday, September 18th, in Budapest, and presented the CRCB’s research results on corruption risks, intensity of competition, and the phenomenon of political favouritism in Hungarian public procurement.

The presentation: (PDF)

The handout: (PDF)

Data publication. The list of public tenders won by Orban’s close friends and read more

Corruption risk demonstrates a deterioration in public spending. Transparency and publishing the list of tenders with highest corruption risks is a tool to fight against future corrupt activities.

The data reported/published here by CRCB aim to provide significant information by sharing all important elementary data of tenders with highest corruption risks in Hungary for the period 2010-2016 in a well-structured format. The source of information was the Hungarian government website (http://www.kozbeszerzes.hu/), read more

This is true for EU funds collected from taxpayers of developed EU Member States. The data reported here by CRCB would like serve this aim by sharing all important elementary data of EU funded Hungarian projects and supported organizations for the period 2004-2012 in a well structured format. The sources of information were the Hungarian government websites, though they do not allow to download elementary data with a simple, structured format (xlsx or read more