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Who We are

We make procurement in Europe more accessible.

TheyBuyForYou is a consortium of 10 leading companies, universities, research centres, government departments and local authorities in the UK, Norway, Italy, Spain and Slovenia.

We receive funding from the EU Horizon 2020 programme to make the European procurement market more accessible.

The TheyBuyForYou project started in January 2018 and is completing at the end of December 2020. However, our online tools will be available long after this date – we want to change the European procurement market for the better over the years to come.

To achieve this, our engineers are busy building procurement APIs and user interfaces that are open source and available to everyone. To this day, we have collected more than 112 million records with intelligence on 1.2 million tenders, 1.3 million awards and 100,000 companies. We’re designing bespoke online tools so that everybody can access our data, be it SMEs looking for contract opportunities, local authorities that search for suppliers, or data journalists who care about public accountability.

TheyBuyForYou brings together leading procurement experts and data architects from research centres, governments and companies in five different countries. We’re testing our tools in seven rigorous business cases to make sure we get it right. The Government of Slovenia is already using our tools to detect patterns of fraud in public spending. A local authority in Spain employs TheyBuyForYou technology to make procurement decisions more transparent. And a large credit information service in Italy integrates our tools to offer public authorities and businesses better value.

WHO WE ARE

A team of procurement experts behind the wheel.

Till C. Lech

Head of Smart Data Research, SINTEF Digital

Elena Simperl

Professor of Computer Science, King's College London

Oscar Corcho

Professor of Computer Science, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Ian Makgill

Head of Services, Spend Network

Alan Buxton

Chief Technology Officer, OpenCorporates

Brian Elvesæter

Research Scientist, SINTEF Digital

Francisco Yedro Martínez

Software Engineer, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Matej Kovačič

Jožef Stefan Institute

Matej Posinković

Jožef Stefan Institute

Annie Ferrari Uliana

Oesía Group

Maria Jesús Fernández Ruiz

Head of the Technical Office for Participation, Transparency and Open Government, Zaragoza City Council

Alex Yeung

Research Manager, Spend Network

Tom Blount

Research Fellow, University of Southampton

Divna Djordjevic

Senior Data Scientist, Cerved

Mitja Medvešček

Secretary at the Public Procurement Directorate, Government of Slovenia

Ivan Bashkirov

Software Engineer, OpenCorporates

Carlos Badenes-Olmedo

PhD Candidate, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Juljan Krause

PhD Researcher, University of Southampton

WHo We Are

Our Project Partners

Spend Network

Spend Network

UK

OpenCorporates

OpenCorporates

UK

SINTEF

SINTEF

Norway

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Spain

King's College London

King's College London

UK

 Grupo Oesía

Grupo Oesía

Spain

Cerved

Cerved

Italy

Jožef Stefan Institute

Slovenia

Ministry of Public Administration

Ministry of Public Administration

Slovenia

Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza

Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza

Spain

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