Global Public Procurement Notices & Awards (TED + OCDS)

What you get

• S — Starter slice: 164K rows
• M — Research pack: 5.3M rows of notices and award edges
• L — Full 2021–2026 library across TED + 5 OCDS jurisdictions
• Data dictionary, datasheet and QA report included with every package

Coverage statistics

Records

16,430,266

Largest package

2.0 GB

Available packages

Real contents of the current builds — row counts, sizes and checksums come from the packaging manifest, not estimates.

Free Open Data — full downloads

This dataset is part of the DataForge Open Data program: the upstream license (Dual license — CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; academic/personal use, attribution + backlink required); commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license. Upstream: TED reuse per Commission Decision 2011/833/EU (source attribution; legal reading disclosed in datasheet); OCDS jurisdictions OGL-UK-3.0 / CC-BY-4.0 / CC-BY-3.0-AU (per-jurisdiction evidence in datasets/ted_ocds/provenance.json)) permits free redistribution, so the complete packages below are free — no signup. Please cite DataForge (data.zalize.com) with a backlink when you use or share this data.

License: Dual license — CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; academic/personal use, attribution + backlink required); commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license. Upstream: TED reuse per Commission Decision 2011/833/EU (source attribution; legal reading disclosed in datasheet); OCDS jurisdictions OGL-UK-3.0 / CC-BY-4.0 / CC-BY-3.0-AU (per-jurisdiction evidence in datasets/ted_ocds/provenance.json) · Attribution: DataForge (data.zalize.com), built from TED (© European Union, ted.europa.eu) and Open Contracting Data Registry official publications

Full package inventory

Every package registered in the delivery catalog for this dataset — 11 packages, 3.7 GB total , 38,369,869 rows. Sizes, row counts and SHA-256 checksums come straight from the packaging pipeline.

How to get this data

All packages are hosted on the Hugging Face Hub: free/open packages live in a public dataset repo (direct downloads, no signup); paid or restricted editions are delivered from a private repo with token access after approval.

# Download the whole dataset repo (hf CLI — pip install -U huggingface_hub)
hf download zalizedata/global-public-procurement-ted-ocds-dataset --repo-type dataset --local-dir global-public-procurement-ted-ocds-dataset

# Or just one archive
hf download zalizedata/global-public-procurement-ted-ocds-dataset archive/archive/ted_ocds-tier1-L-2026-08-06.zip --repo-type dataset

Protocol access (hf://, resolve links, token auth for private repos) is documented in the developer docs →

Pricing

AI-training use requires the AI-Training tier (1.5× base); redistribution licensing is quoted individually. Annual subscriptions get 2 months free. License details →

Update frequency & delivery

• Sources: TED official monthly bulk packages (reuse per Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) and Open Contracting Data Registry full dumps (OGL-UK-3.0 / CC-BY-4.0 / CC-BY-3.0-AU).
• Every package ships with a MANIFEST (per-file row counts, bytes, sha256) for verification.

Compliance & provenance

Collected only from publicly accessible pages and endpoints — no login-required data, no CAPTCHA solving, no forged authentication. Collection is rate-limited with an identified User-Agent, and collection logs are retained. PII is removed or pseudonymized. Every record carries its source URL and collection timestamp. Sold under a tiered commercial license.

FAQ