Purchase Orders

A purchase order (PO) is an encumbrance, which reserves funds for expenditures. It is issued by the City to a vendor indicating types, quantities, and prices for the procurement of materials and supplies or services. A purchase order is an offer from the City to buy materials and supplies or services from a vendor.

The dashboard view below explores purchase orders issued by the City. Purchase orders can be filtered and sorted by vendor, procurement category, type of purchase (materiald and supplies, services, capital outlay), year, and dollar amount.

You can also download all of the purchase order data by visiting the City of Columbus Data Hub. Please click here to download the full data sets in popular data formats such as csv and json.