European Public Contracts (TED)
Where European governments spend, when, and on what - the B2B procurement-intelligence signal. TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) publishes every above-threshold EU public contract award as a ~700 MB, 75-column CSV per year that nobody wants to parse; we aggregate it into one tidy monthly panel: for each (country × month × CPV sector) the total award value in EUR, the number of distinct contracts, and the average contract size. The European complement to the US federal contract-awards product - read government demand by sector and country over time. Winner names are aggregated away (no personal data). CC-BY-4.0.
- Source
- EU TED
- Licence
- Redistributable open data
- Quality
- QC clean · 0 failures
- Format
- Apache Parquet + dictionary
Safe to train on
Built only from a named, redistributable official source under a documented open licence - not scraped web data. No copyright grey zone, no personal data. Ships machine-readable Croissant metadata (ML Commons - loads in Hugging Face / Kaggle / Google), an AI training-licence manifest documenting source, licence and provenance for your model's data governance, and a machine-readable data dictionary (drop it into an agent / RAG prompt so the model knows every column) - all inspectable before you buy.
What's included
- Monthly EU public-procurement award value by country × CPV sector (2015→2023)
- Total EUR awarded, number of distinct contracts, and average contract size per cell
- ~45 CPV sectors (construction, health, IT, defence, energy, …) mapped to labels
- The European mirror of US federal contract awards - government demand signal
- Aggregated from TED's raw per-notice bulk - winner names dropped (no PII)
- CC-BY-4.0 (EU) - commercial reuse with attribution
- Source: © European Union, TED / data.europa.eu
Schema
| Column | Type | Description | Filled | Distinct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| country | str | Contracting authority country (ISO-2) | 100.0% | 33 |
| month | str | Award month (YYYY-MM) | 100.0% | 120 |
| cpv_division | str | CPV 2-digit division code | 100.0% | 45 |
| cpv_sector | str | CPV sector label (e.g. Construction work, Health & social work) | 100.0% | 45 |
| n_contracts | int | Number of distinct contract-award notices in the cell | 100.0% | 802 |
| total_euro_value | float | Total award value, EUR | 100.0% | 106,213 |
| avg_euro_value | float | Average award value per contract, EUR | 100.0% | 104,582 |
Sample & preview
Every purchase ships as Apache Parquet with a data dictionary and the full QC report. A free sample (first rows + schema) is downloadable here - confirm fit before you buy. Source: EU TED (redistributable open data; attribution passes through - see our Licence).
Don't trust screenshots - drop the sample into your notebook right now.
import pandas as pd df = pd.read_parquet("european-public-contracts_sample.parquet") df.info() # typed columns, gap-aware, ready to join⬇ Download free Parquet sample or CSV for Excel
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