Government Tenders & Contract Awards (US Federal + Global Portals)

What you get

• S — US federal: 1,046,568 SAM.gov opportunity and award records
• M — Global awards, linked: 5,956,897 rows across international portals with supplier linking
• L — Full pack: 11,453,832 rows, all portals and award linkages
• Data dictionary, datasheet and QA report included

Coverage statistics

Records

11,453,832

Largest package

2.3 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: official government procurement portals (SAM.gov public domain; other portals per-portal open terms)) 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: official government procurement portals (SAM.gov public domain; other portals per-portal open terms) · Attribution: DataForge (data.zalize.com), built from official government procurement data

Full package inventory

Every package registered in the delivery catalog for this dataset — 18 packages, 9.2 GB total , 52,826,907 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/government-tenders-contract-awards-dataset --repo-type dataset --local-dir government-tenders-contract-awards-dataset

# Or just one archive
hf download zalizedata/government-tenders-contract-awards-dataset archive/archive/tenders-tier1-S-2026-08-02.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: official public procurement portals (SAM.gov and international portals).
• Subscriptions deliver refreshed packages monthly.
• Every package ships with a MANIFEST (row counts, bytes, sha256).

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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