Datasets:

ValanTec
/

procurement-sample

license: other
license_name: valan-evaluation-license
license_link: https://valan.io/legal
pretty_name: Valan Procurement Intelligence — Public Sample
language:
  - en
tags:
  - procurement
  - government-contracts
  - alternative-data
  - finance
  - quantitative-finance
  - entity-resolution
  - point-in-time
  - tabular
  - awards
  - tenders
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: valan_sample_1k_fin_awards.parquet

Valan Procurement Intelligence — Public Sample

A free 1,000-row sample of the Valan Technologies global procurement intelligence feed: point-in-time, entity-resolved government contract awards linked to the awarded company's tradable security (ticker / LEI / ISIN).

Valan Technologies maintains one of the most comprehensive privately-held public procurement datasets in existence: 100M+ contract awards and tenders from 150+ government sources across 222 countries and territories, in 8 languages, updated daily, entity-resolved against a 72.4-million-row global company master. This dataset is the public evaluation slice. Feed snapshot: 2026-05-30.


📖 Full data dictionary	DATA_DICTIONARY.md · valan.io/data-dictionary
🧠 Machine-readable corpus	valan.io/llms-full.txt
📚 Glossary / FAQ	valan.io/glossary
📰 Research built on this data	valan.io/research
🐙 GitHub mirror	IrishJohn1973/valan-procurement-sample
💼 Full feed access	john@valan.io

What's in each row

A government contract award — buyer, supplier, date, value, currency, procurement category (CPV / VPV / NAICS) — resolved to the supplier's legal entity (LEI), primary listing (ISIN, exchange, MIC), and point-in-time ticker:

ticker_as_of with pit_confirmed = True — the ticker as of the award date, sourced from a genuine dated listing window. Forward-bias-free. Use this for backtests.
ultimate_parent_ticker — the supplier's current parent rollup (who owns it today), not as-of the award. Useful for screening; look-ahead present.

The reference loader (valan_sample_loader.py, requires pandas + pyarrow) demonstrates PIT-correct filtering and keeps the two concepts strictly separate. The design rule across the full feed: a ticker is either genuinely point-in-time or honestly NULL — never a current value dressed as as-of.

Scope — read first

This is a curated investable-only slice (investable_flag = True on every row). In the full universe only ~17% of awards (12.3M of 71.9M) carry a tradable ticker — do not extrapolate coverage from this file. It demonstrates the schema, identity resolution, and point-in-time mechanics, not the live hit-rate.

award_value is in local currency (currency column; this slice spans AUD, BRL, CZK, EUR, HUF, PLN, USD). Never sum across currencies. For real obligated value use value_type = 'award', positive value, and exclude IDIQ/framework ceilings (value_is_ceiling = True).

Compliance (verified at export)

PII-clean (email PII removed, verified zero; business-contact phones retained as published procurement data). No PRC-sourced data (ccgp_* sources and buyer_country = 'CN' excluded). Russia/Belarus excluded on/after 2022-02-24. CUI/radioactive rows excluded from the standard feed. No sanctioned buyer or supplier present in this slice.

The full feed

Table	Rows	What it is
`fin_awards`	71,888,513	Financial-modelled awards (12,345,679 investable) — this sample's schema
`master_awards`	71,857,265	Text-rich awards: titles, descriptions, source URLs
`fin_tenders`	24,984,433	Open solicitations — the forward pipeline
`master_tenders`	24,274,179	Descriptive tenders
`entity_dim`	312,156	LEI-bridged company dimension
`subcontract_graph`	3,311,541	Sub→prime contract linkage with tier depth

Daily refresh · S3 parquet delivery · SHA256-checksummed manifests · by institutional arrangement: john@valan.io

License

Sample data is free for evaluation, research, and benchmarking with attribution to Valan Technologies (valan.io). The loader script is MIT. Underlying records originate from publicly available government procurement portals. The full feed is licensed separately. Not investment advice.