Contracts and modifications awarded by the City of Chicago since 1993. This data is currently maintained in the City’s Financial Management and Purchasing System (FMPS), which is used throughout the City for contract management and payment.
Legacy System Records: Purchase Order/Contract Numbers that begin with alpha characters identify records imported from legacy systems. Records with a null value in the Contract Type field were imported from legacy systems.
"Comptroller-Other" Contract Type: Some records where the Contract Type is "COMPTROLLER-OTHER" are ordinance-based agreements and may have start dates earlier than 1993.
Depends Upon Requirements Contracts: If the contract Award Amount is $0, the contract is not cancelled, and the contract is a blanket contract, then the contract award total Depends Upon Requirements. A Depends Upon Requirements contract is an indefinite quantities contract in which the City places orders as needed and the vendor is not guaranteed any particular contract award amount.

Blanket vs. Standard Contracts: Only blanket contracts (contracts for repeated purchases) have FMPS end dates. Standard contracts (for example, construction contracts) terminate upon completion and acceptance of all deliverables. These dates are tracked outside of FMPS.

Negative Modifications: Some contracts are modified to delete scope and money from a contract. These reductions are indicated by negative numbers in the Award Amount field of this dataset.

Data Owner: Procurement Services.
Time Period: 1993 to present.
Frequency: Data is updated daily.

Entities, individuals or both are subject to debarment. The following list provides info regarding entities or individuals, date of debarment, length of debarment and cause. Lifetime debarment pertains to individuals, permanent pertains to entities. In addition, this list also identifies individuals and entities that are ineligible to do business with the City pursuant to Section 1-23-020 of the Municipal Code, and Building Code Scofflaws ineligible to do business with the City pursuant to Section 2-92-416 of the Municipal Code.

Cook County Certified Veteran Owned Businesses

Contracts and modifications awarded by the City of Chicago since 1993. This data is currently maintained in the City’s Financial Management and Purchasing System (FMPS), which is used throughout the City for contract management and payment.
Legacy System Records: Purchase Order/Contract Numbers that begin with alpha characters identify records imported from legacy systems. Records with a null value in the Contract Type field were imported from legacy systems.
"Comptroller-Other" Contract Type: Some records where the Contract Type is "COMPTROLLER-OTHER" are ordinance-based agreements and may have start dates earlier than 1993.
Depends Upon Requirements Contracts: If the contract Award Amount is $0, the contract is not cancelled, and the contract is a blanket contract, then the contract award total Depends Upon Requirements. A Depends Upon Requirements contract is an indefinite quantities contract in which the City places orders as needed and the vendor is not guaranteed any particular contract award amount.

Blanket vs. Standard Contracts: Only blanket contracts (contracts for repeated purchases) have FMPS end dates. Standard contracts (for example, construction contracts) terminate upon completion and acceptance of all deliverables. These dates are tracked outside of FMPS.

Negative Modifications: Some contracts are modified to delete scope and money from a contract. These reductions are indicated by negative numbers in the Award Amount field of this dataset.

Data Owner: Procurement Services.
Time Period: 1993 to present.
Frequency: Data is updated daily.

The Department of Procurement (DPS) approves Task Order Requests (TOR), contracts for specific tasks or services to be provided to the City. The below graph displays the average time it takes the Department of Procurement to approve a TOR. The current target for approval time is within 7 days.

The City of Chicago auctions surplus equipment, vehicles, furniture, office equipment, and other goods and materials online in order to raise funds. The below graph provides weekly updates on progress toward the fundraising target of $4.6 million.

Payment totals, by quarter, for Minority Business Enterprises (MBE) and Women Business Enterprises (WBE).

This information provides a snapshot in time and is subject to change based on available data. Also, please note that this information is related solely to contracts awarded through the Department of Procurement Services.

For more information on the MBE/WBE Program, see https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dps/provdrs/cert.html.

The data for the initial launch combined the first two quarters of 2019. Subsequent data generally cover individual quarters but occasionally may also be combined.