{"id":747,"date":"2018-08-27T08:16:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T07:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/public-procurement\/?p=747"},"modified":"2018-08-27T10:58:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T09:58:44","slug":"new-developments-on-public-contracts-scotland-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/public-procurement\/2018\/08\/27\/new-developments-on-public-contracts-scotland-pcs\/","title":{"rendered":"New developments to Public Contracts Scotland (PCS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have just released new developments to Public Contracts Scotland (PCS) in line with the Scottish Government open contracting strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Information from all notices published on PCS which were already available to download in various formats (HTML, XML and pdf) and were only available on a notice-by-notice basis will now be available in bulk download, and in more formats.<\/p>\n<p>This has delivered four new features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ability for users to download the information from the statistics tab in each buyer profile in CSV and MS Excel<\/li>\n<li>A dedicated open contracting area, with a link directly from the PCS homepage<\/li>\n<li>The ability for users to perform bulk downloads of notices, rather than on a one-by-one basis in the following formats &#8211; CSV, MS Excel, and XML<\/li>\n<li>An application programming interface (API) which means that the notice information will be available in machine-readable JSON format.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of the above are open and available to the public without the need to register on PCS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New features including ability to download notices in bulk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,2],"tags":[5,4,254],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contract-notices","category-public-contracts-scotland","tag-pcs","tag-public-contracts-scotland","tag-scottish-open-government-strategy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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