A Poverty Index based on Contract Award Notices (CANs)
Since Contract Award Notices (CANs) reflect real, granular economic activity — public spending, infrastructure investment, procurement flow, and sectoral dynamics — they can indeed serve as the foundation for a powerful, data-driven Poverty Index (PI).
Core principle
Poverty is not only a function of income but also of access, opportunity, and distribution.
CANs offer real-time signals about:
- Where money is being spent (geographically and sectorally)
- Who benefits (by company, region, sector)
- How public resources are distributed (contract value per capita, per sector, per region)
Thus, the Poverty Index can be derived indirectly from imbalances in public procurement activity.
An Environmental Vulnerability Index (EVI) based on Contract Award Notices (CANs)
This document explains how to build a robust, procurement-signal–driven Environmental Vulnerability Index (EVI) and refresh it daily from Contract Award Notices (CANs).
The process depends on (i) aligning the EVI with accepted vulnerability frameworks, and (ii) using CANs as high-frequency proxies for exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity.
A Press Freedom Index based on Contract Award Notices (CANs)
Creating a Press Freedom Index from contract award notices (CANs) is a highly unconventional and indirect approach. Standard Press Freedom Indexes, such as the one published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), are based on a wide range of factors directly related to the media environment. These include:
- Political Context: The degree of support for and autonomy of media.
- Legal Framework: Laws and regulations affecting journalism, and the independence of public media.
- Economic Context: Economic constraints on the press.
- Sociocultural Context: Social and cultural pressures leading to self-censorship.
- Safety: The physical and psychological safety of journalists.
A CAN-based Agricultural and Rural Development Index
Most of the main socio-economic indices can be calculated by Tixx™, either partially or wholly, based on the data in Contract Award Notices (CANs) to which Tixx™ has unrivalled global access on a daily basis. Together the CANs represent between 40 and 60% of GDP, depending on the country.
Purpose
To measure and forecast future agricultural and rural development activity using Contract Award Notices (CANs), normalized for cross-country comparability, and reported on a 0–100 scale.
Design Principles
• Forward-looking: contracts reflect planned activity over the next 6–18 months.
• Comparable: normalized by arable land and/or rural population to enable like-for-like comparisons (e.g., Moldova vs. Mexico).
• Actionable: decomposed into sub-indices directly tied to CPV families.
• Transparent: parameters and mappings are explicit in the workbook.
25 Tixx™ Functions and Metrics
Tixx™ metrics are all based on the data contained in Contract Award Notices (CAN) downloaded daily from 194 countries.
The metrics can be displayed and compared for a past, present, or future period or date selected by a subscriber.
The metrics can be broken down per Country and/or Region (state), City, Market Sector or Player (CRCMSP).
The application is available in 100+ languages, and automatically displayed in that of the visitor.
Datatixx SAS has contracts with CAN data providers for all 194 countries covered by the service.
The data providers together have approximately 75,000 corporate customers that use their services, meaning Tixx™ will have a potential customer base of 75,000 subscribers from the outset.
All of these documents and the complete specifications for the Tixx™ application have been filed with the French Industrial Property Institute (INPI).
