| --- |
| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| language: |
| - en |
| - fr |
| size_categories: |
| - 1K<n<10K |
| tags: |
| - canada |
| - government |
| - procurement |
| - contracts |
| - tenders |
| - rag |
| - llm-training |
| pretty_name: ProcureData — Canadian Government Procurement (Sample) |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: procuredata_sample.jsonl |
| --- |
| |
| # ProcureData — Canadian Government Procurement (Sample) |
|
|
| **Sample of 4,978 Canadian federal and provincial procurement records.** Mix of |
| contracts, tenders, awards, ACAN notices, and standing offers. Last 3 months of |
| data from the full [ProcureData API](https://procuredata.ca). |
|
|
| > **Want the full dataset?** 2.1M+ records, cursor-paginated REST API, daily |
| > refresh, query by department / vendor / category / value range. |
| > **[Get an API key →](https://procuredata.ca/pricing)** |
|
|
| ## What's in here |
|
|
| | Field | Type | Description | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | `source_id` | string | Originating system (canadabuys, seao, ns, ab, yt) | |
| | `entity_type` | string | `tender`, `contract`, `award`, `standing_offer`, `disclosure` | |
| | `record_id` | string | Stable per-record identifier from the source | |
| | `municipality` | string | City/region if available | |
| | `event_date` | string (ISO date) | Award date for contracts, publish date for tenders | |
| | `category` | string | Procurement category (GSIN / UNSPSC / source-specific) | |
| | `department` | string | Awarding government department | |
| | `vendor` | string | Vendor as published | |
| | `vendor_normalized` | string | Cleaned vendor name (deduplicated across spellings) | |
| | `contract_value` | float | CAD amount, where disclosed | |
| | `contract_end_date` | string (ISO date) | Contract end where disclosed | |
| | `data` | object | Full raw record from the source (JSON) | |
|
|
| ## Composition (sample) |
|
|
| | entity_type | rows | |
| |---|---| |
| | tender | 2,700 | |
| | contract | 1,950 | |
| | award | 225 | |
| | standing_offer | 100 | |
| | disclosure | 3 | |
|
|
| ## Use cases |
|
|
| - **RAG / agents** — ground LLM responses in actual Canadian procurement data |
| - **Domain fine-tuning** — train models on procurement vocabulary, vendor naming, GSIN codes |
| - **Bid forecasting** — historical patterns of department spend |
| - **Vendor intelligence** — who wins what, at what value |
| - **Schema exploration** before committing to API integration |
|
|
| ## Limitations of this sample |
|
|
| - **Snapshot only** — frozen from 2026-02-25 to 2026-05-25. New tenders close daily; this sample will not reflect them. |
| - **5K rows** — full dataset is 2.1M+. Sample is enough to test schema, prompts, prototypes; not enough for production analytics. |
| - **No querying** — can't filter server-side, search by full-text, or paginate. Use the API for that. |
|
|
| ## Production access |
|
|
| If you need any of: fresh data, full coverage, search, filtering, or programmatic access, use the API: |
|
|
| - **Docs:** https://procuredata.ca/docs |
| - **Pricing:** https://procuredata.ca/pricing — free tier 25 req/day, Pro $49/mo 1K req/day |
| - **Quickstart:** |
| ```bash |
| curl "https://api.procuredata.ca/contract?q=cybersecurity&limit=10" \ |
| -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## License & attribution |
|
|
| Data sourced from public Canadian government procurement systems (CanadaBuys, |
| SEAO Quebec, Nova Scotia, Alberta, Yukon). All source data is under open |
| government licenses. Sample redistribution is permitted under CC-BY-4.0. |
|
|
| ## Contact |
|
|
| - API and enterprise inquiries: nicolas@builddata.ca |
| - Bug reports: https://github.com/NicolasPrimeau/Nimbus (or via the contact link on procuredata.ca) |
|
|
| ## Mirror locations |
|
|
| The same sample is published in three places — pick whichever you prefer: |
|
|
| - **Hugging Face:** https://huggingface.co/datasets/nimbusdata/procuredata-canadian-procurement-sample |
| - **Kaggle:** https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/niexon/procuredata-canadian-procurement-sample |
| - **GitHub:** https://github.com/nimbusdata/procuredata-sample |
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