Differences in the practice of Big Data (BD) usage between the private and public sectors are causing a problem of public administration access to advanced BD technologies and methods used in business. The high potential of BD is in demand by public organizations while private businesses hold these technologies and methods. The study of barriers to the dissemination of a practice of BD usage in public administration allows identification of possibilities and directions for BD production and use by public organizations. Russian and foreign cases of production and incorporation of BD in public administration for their analysis were selected from scientific and business sources. The barriers limiting work with BD in public administration are identified: a legal regulation of BD implementation, the structure and functioning of the IT infrastructure of public administration, requirements for the quality of data as content, and the scope and scale of socio-political development problems in public administration. Analysis of BD application in public administration has shown the ways of BD production, such as signal reception and date entry, as well as the necessity of using the IT infrastructure of business. Ways of implementing BD vary due to their multitasking in the public and private sectors. Since BD accumulated by public organizations is in demand by private businesses, providing a data access mechanism can be an approach to enhancing the digital economy at the local and state levels. The study demonstrates the high importance of finding the ways to develop and disseminate BD for public authorities.