zalizedata/global-public-procurement-ted-ocds-dataset

Global Public Procurement Notices & Awards (TED + OCDS)

6.3M procurement notices and 8.8M supplier-award edges from official TED monthly bulk packages plus Open Contracting Data Registry dumps for five jurisdictions (UK, Paraguay, Australia, Québec).

Part of the DataForge Open Data program — full production packages, free for academic and personal use. Canonical dataset page: [https://data.zalize.com/datasets/global-public-procurement-ted-ocds-dataset](https://data.zalize.com/datasets/global-public-procurement-ted-ocds-dataset)

Packages in this repo

All files are also served from the machine-readable open-data index: <https://dl.zalize.com/open-data> (per-package URL: https://dl.zalize.com/open-data/<package_id>).

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

Use cases

• —Cross-border procurement-market analysis
• —Supplier and buyer intelligence
• —Bid-opportunity discovery
• —Anti-corruption and open-contracting research

Source & methodology

TED official monthly bulk packages + Open Contracting Data Registry full dumps (UK FTS, UK Contracts Finder, Paraguay DNCP, Australia AusTender, Canada Québec SEAO)

Coverage, update cadence and the full field-level data dictionary are on the dataset page: https://data.zalize.com/datasets/global-public-procurement-ted-ocds-dataset (DATA-DICTIONARY.md and DATASHEET.md are inside each package zip).

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)

• —Academic / personal use: CC BY-NC 4.0 on the DataForge curated layer — attribution and a backlink to <https://data.zalize.com> are required.
• —Commercial use: requires a DataForge commercial license — contact us via the portal.
• —Upstream license terms continue to apply to the underlying data.

Citation

DataForge (data.zalize.com), built from TED (© European Union, ted.europa.eu) and Open Contracting Data Registry official publications — https://data.zalize.com/datasets/global-public-procurement-ted-ocds-dataset

DOI (Zenodo mirror): 10.5281/zenodo.21838183 · GitHub Release mirror: https://github.com/wookat/dataforge-pipelines/releases/tag/open-data-global-public-procurement

Archive bundles (zip)

Original packaged bundles (docs + data + checksums) are kept under archive/; the same packages are mirrored at dl.zalize.com/open-data.

• —`ted_ocds-tier1-L-2026-08-06.zip`
• —`ted_ocds-tier1-M-2026-08-06.zip`
• —`ted_ocds-tier1-S-2026-08-06.zip`

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("zalizedata/global-public-procurement-ted-ocds-dataset", "buyer_profiles", split="train")
print(ds[0])

Available configs: buyer_profiles, monthly_stats, notices, supplier_award_edges, supplier_award_history.

Related datasets

More DataForge open datasets in Government Spending & Procurement:

• —US Federal Awards & Spending (USAspending)
• —Government Tenders & Contract Awards (US Federal + Global Portals)
• —US Research Grants (NIH + NSF)
• —Global Development Aid Activities & Transactions (IATI)

Full catalog (25 datasets): <https://data.zalize.com/open-data> · all HF repos: <https://huggingface.co/zalizedata>