Refactoring & Modification of functionality of Opentender.eu portal
About our client
GTI Government Transparency Institute Ltd (GTI)
GTI is a non-partisan think tank researching and advocating good governance. GTI was born from the research and civil society activism of its founder Mihály Fazekas at the University of Cambridge in 2015. GTI aims to provide an independent, research-driven voice to the causes of transparency, anti-corruption, and good governance in Europe as well as globally. GTI conducts innovative research on the causes, characteristics, and consequences of low-quality governance with interdisciplinary analysis, drawing on political science, economics, law, and data science. It is financed by private donations, research grants, and government contract work, and works independently of political parties or special interest groups.
Value delivered
Refactoring & Modification of functionality of Opentender.eu portal
Technologies
E-Stock national pharmaceuticals inventory tracking system
Recipient
GTI Government Transparency Institute Ltd
Delivery period
July 2022 – March 2023
Goal
Refactoring and development of additional functionality of https://opentender.eu.
Results
- improving the speed of the portal, search, ease of downloading new datasets, improving the quality of dataset processing, reducing ongoing infrastructure costs, new functions.
Services
- Development of registration pop-up for downloading with e-mail validation, analytics outputs
- Indicators for countries if they are provided in the dataset
- Improvements of indicators and language
- Development of infrastructure
- Improve performance for lower costs and better spee
- Update of Elastic Search to more functional version
- Import script refactoring to work with updated ElasticSearch and without old plugin
- Setup of CI/CD pipeline for data upload via S3 bucket
- New filtering functionality
- Adding new countries: Serbia, North Macedonia, Albania
- Requests optimisation to improve performance for lower costs and better speed
