District of Columbia Office of Contracting and Procurement

E35438

government agency public procurement authority

The District of Columbia Office of Contracting and Procurement is the central government agency responsible for managing and overseeing purchasing and contracting activities for the District’s public agencies and programs.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
District of Columbia Office of Contracting and Procurement canonical	1
District of Columbia government agencies	1
Office of Contracting and Procurement of the District of Columbia	1

Statements (38)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	government agency ⓘ public procurement authority ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction	District of Columbia ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
hasDuties	administering contracts for District of Columbia agencies ⓘ centralizing procurement processes for District of Columbia government ⓘ conducting solicitations for goods and services for District of Columbia agencies ⓘ ensuring compliance with District of Columbia procurement laws and regulations ⓘ establishing procurement policies and procedures for the District of Columbia government ⓘ managing purchasing activities for District of Columbia government agencies ⓘ negotiating contracts on behalf of District of Columbia agencies ⓘ overseeing contracting activities for District of Columbia government agencies ⓘ supporting small and local business participation in District of Columbia contracting ⓘ
hasScope	centralized procurement for District of Columbia government ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Washington, D.C. ⓘ
isResponsibleFor	contracting for construction and infrastructure projects for District of Columbia government ⓘ ensuring competitive bidding in District of Columbia government contracting ⓘ ensuring cost-effectiveness in District of Columbia procurement ⓘ ensuring fairness in District of Columbia procurement processes ⓘ issuing invitations for bids for District of Columbia agencies ⓘ issuing requests for proposals for District of Columbia agencies ⓘ maintaining procurement records for District of Columbia government ⓘ promoting transparency in District of Columbia procurement processes ⓘ providing procurement guidance to District of Columbia agencies ⓘ purchasing of goods for District of Columbia government agencies ⓘ purchasing of services for District of Columbia government agencies ⓘ
jurisdiction	District of Columbia ⓘ
legalForm	public agency ⓘ
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	District of Columbia ⓘ
operatesInSector	public administration ⓘ public procurement ⓘ
parentOrganization	Government of the District of Columbia ⓘ
partOf	Government of the District of Columbia ⓘ surface form: District of Columbia government
regulates	procurement activities of District of Columbia executive agencies ⓘ
serves	District of Columbia executive agencies ⓘ District of Columbia public programs ⓘ
usesLanguage	English ⓘ
website	https://ocp.dc.gov/ ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: District of Columbia Office of Contracting and Procurement
Description of subject: The District of Columbia Office of Contracting and Procurement is the central government agency responsible for managing and overseeing purchasing and contracting activities for the District’s public agencies and programs.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Government of the District of Columbia → hasAgency → District of Columbia Office of Contracting and Procurement ⓘ

OCTO → serves → District of Columbia Office of Contracting and Procurement ⓘ

this entity surface form: District of Columbia government agencies

District of Columbia health and human services system → hasPart → District of Columbia Office of Contracting and Procurement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Office of Contracting and Procurement of the District of Columbia