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

Sample preview

First 50 rows of the real free-sample file — the identical schema you get in every package. Click a column to sort, or filter across all rows.

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.

FreeOpen 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

# Machine-readable package index (size / sha256 / rows / channels)
curl -s https://data.zalize.com/datasets/global-public-procurement-ted-ocds-dataset/packages.json | jq '.packages[0]'

# Request a free sample (signed link sent to your email)
curl -X POST https://dl.zalize.com/api/sample \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"dataset":"global-public-procurement-ted-ocds-dataset","email":"you@company.com"}'

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.

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