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| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| task_categories: |
| - text-classification |
| - text-generation |
| - summarization |
| - token-classification |
| - question-answering |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - government |
| - procurement |
| - public-sector |
| - RFP |
| - RFQ |
| - IFB |
| - contracts |
| - United States |
| - historical |
| - open-data |
| pretty_name: US Government Bids — Historical Sample |
| size_categories: |
| - 1K<n<10K |
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| # US Government Bids — Historical Sample |
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| **10,000 historical US government procurement bids** with full titles, descriptions, and structured metadata. All bids in this dataset have due dates at least 30 days in the past — this is a historical corpus for research and ML training, not a live opportunity feed. |
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| **Source:** [ProcureTap](https://procuretap.com) — aggregated from 290+ federal, state, and local procurement portals (SAM.gov, Grants.gov, state portals, Bonfire, PlanetBids, Jaggaer, BidNet Direct, DemandStar, and many more). |
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| **License:** [CC-BY-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Free to redistribute with attribution. |
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| **Refresh cadence:** Monthly. |
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| **Citation:** |
| > ProcureTap (2026). *US Government Bids — Historical Sample.* https://huggingface.co/datasets/ProcureTap/us-government-bids-sample |
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| ## Schema |
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| Each line in `bids.jsonl` is a JSON object with the following fields: |
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| | Field | Type | Description | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | `id` | int | ProcureTap internal ID (stable, referenceable at `procuretap.com/bid/{id}`) | |
| | `external_id` | string \| null | Original solicitation number from the source system | |
| | `title` | string | Bid title (as scraped from source, may include prefixes/codes) | |
| | `description` | string | Bid description text (truncated to 2,500 characters where longer) | |
| | `state` | string \| null | 2-letter US state code (federal bids may be null or "US") | |
| | `city` | string \| null | City if location-specific | |
| | `industry` | string \| null | Industry classification (comma-separated for multi-industry) | |
| | `bid_type` | string \| null | RFP / RFQ / IFB / ITB / etc. | |
| | `status` | string | closed / awarded / open (open here means due_date past but source system hasn't marked closed yet) | |
| | `posted_date` | string (ISO 8601) \| null | Date bid was posted by the agency | |
| | `due_date` | string (ISO 8601) | Deadline for responses (always >30 days in the past for this dataset) | |
| | `award_date` | string (ISO 8601) \| null | If awarded, the date of award | |
| | `estimated_value_min` | number \| null | Lower bound of contract value in USD (where disclosed) | |
| | `estimated_value_max` | number \| null | Upper bound of contract value in USD (where disclosed) | |
| | `source_url` | string \| null | URL to the original source posting | |
| | `source_platform` | string \| null | The originating platform (e.g., `sam_gov`, `bonfire`, `planetbids`) | |
| | `org_name` | string \| null | Name of the issuing agency/organization | |
| | `org_type` | string \| null | Agency type (`federal`, `state`, `city`, `county`, `school_district`, `hospital`, `university`, etc.) | |
| | `org_state` | string \| null | The state where the organization is based | |
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| ## What is EXCLUDED |
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| To protect privacy and honor the terms of aggregation from source systems: |
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| - Contact information (name, email, phone) is stripped from every record |
| - Full RFP document text is not included (only the bid metadata + description) |
| - No bids with `due_date` less than 30 days ago (protects the value of live procurement data) |
| - No bids with descriptions shorter than 100 characters (low signal) |
| - No bids with titles shorter than 10 characters (usually stubs or errors) |
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| ## Suggested uses |
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| - **Text classification:** train models to classify RFPs by industry, agency type, or contract type |
| - **Named-entity recognition:** extract dollar amounts, deadline dates, set-aside categories, geographic locations |
| - **Summarization:** generate short summaries of long procurement descriptions |
| - **Question answering:** answer questions about historical government procurement patterns |
| - **Embedding models:** build vector representations of procurement documents for similarity search |
| - **Baseline data:** benchmark procurement-aware AI assistants against real-world procurement text |
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| ## Related dataset |
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| For aggregate statistics (bid counts by state, industry, agency, total value), see [`ProcureTap/us-government-procurement-stats`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ProcureTap/us-government-procurement-stats). |
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| ## About ProcureTap |
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| [ProcureTap](https://procuretap.com) is a US government procurement bid aggregation platform. Free tier lets anyone browse and search 200,000+ active government contracts across federal, state, and local agencies. Pro tier ($99/mo) adds instant email alerts, unlimited saved searches, and full document access. The live data on procuretap.com is refreshed every 6 hours. |
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| If this dataset is useful to your work, attribution back to procuretap.com is appreciated (though not legally required beyond CC-BY-4.0 terms). |
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