Open data: global public tenders
Every month we publish the notices FreeTender has collected from government and development-bank portals in 200+ countries, as one CSV file per month (492,760 rows so far). It is free for research, journalism, teaching and market analysis under CC BY 4.0. Please credit FreeTender (freetender.net) with a link.
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| Month | Notices | Size | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 (month to date) | 294,229 | 31.9 MB | freetender-tenders-2026-10.csv.gz |
| September 2026 | 161,434 | 18.6 MB | freetender-tenders-2026-09.csv.gz |
| August 2026 | 37,097 | 4.4 MB | freetender-tenders-2026-08.csv.gz |
Gzipped CSV, UTF-8, one row per notice. The current month is refreshed daily.
Fields
- id
- FreeTender notice id
- url
- The notice page on FreeTender (links to the original source)
- title
- Notice title as published (original language)
- buyer
- Contracting authority
- country
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country of the buyer
- region
- State / province, when given
- city
- City, when given
- sector
- FreeTender sector
- subcategory
- FreeTender sub-sector, when classified
- notice_type
- tender, rfp, rfq, eoi, grant, award, …
- procurement_type
- goods, works, services, consultancy, …
- published_date
- Date first published
- closing_date
- Submission deadline (ISO 8601)
- value_amount
- Estimated value as stated by the buyer
- currency
- ISO 4217 currency of value_amount
- source
- Portal the notice was read from
- source_licence
- Licence or terms of that portal
What it is and isn't
Coverage depends on which portals publish openly, so treat country totals as "notices we could read". They are not a census of public spending. Values are as stated by buyers, in their currency, and most notices state none. Full notice text and contact details are not included. Follow the url column for those. For ready-made figures, see the monthly market reports. For the newest notices as they arrive, use the JSON feed.
Suggested citation: FreeTender (2026). Global public tenders dataset. https://freetender.net/open-data