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TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) Dataset Card

Dataset Overview

Dataset Name: TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) EU Tenders Dataset

Description: TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) is the online version of the 'Supplement to the Official Journal' of the EU, dedicated to European public procurement. This dataset comprises a collection of procurement notices published by the EU, organized into Parquet files divided by year. Each file contains detailed information about public tenders, including metadata extracted from XML files.

Languages Covered:

German (DEU): 63,128 documents
French (FRA): 25,539 documents
Polish (POL): 20,594 documents
Spanish (SPA): 15,119 documents
Dutch (NLD): 12,371 documents
Czech (CES): 11,293 documents
Romanian (RON): 10,285 documents
English (ENG): 10,231 documents
Swedish (SWE): 9,560 documents
Italian (ITA): 6,603 documents
Bulgarian (BUL): 6,281 documents
Finnish (FIN): 5,812 documents
Latvian (LAV): 5,160 documents
Danish (DAN): 3,251 documents
Lithuanian (LIT): 3,162 documents
Croatian (HR): 3,155 documents
Estonian (EST): 2,813 documents
Hungarian (HUN): 2,167 documents
Portuguese (POR): 2,080 documents
Slovenian (SLV): 1,959 documents
Slovak (SLK): 1,822 documents
Greek (ELL): 1,606 documents
Irish (GLE): 1 document
Unspecified/Empty: 57 documents

Total Number of Documents: 224,049

Total Number of Words: 279,556,839

Average Number of Words per Document: 1,247.75

Total Number of Characters: 2,125,102,547

Average Number of Characters per Document: 9,484.99

Total Number of Rows with Empty Identifier: 57

Dataset Structure

The dataset is stored in Parquet files organized by year. Each Parquet file contains the following metadata for each document:

filename: Name of the original XML file.
identifier: Unique identifier for the document.
date: Publication date of the document in DD/MM/YYYY format.
language: Language of the document.
url: URL to the document on the TED website.
text: Full text content of the document.
word_count: Total number of words in the document.
character_count: Total number of characters in the document.

Usage

The dataset can be used for various purposes including, but not limited to:

Analyzing public procurement trends across different European countries and languages.
Studying the distribution of procurement notices over time.
Developing natural language processing models to analyze the content of procurement notices.
Extracting insights related to public procurement policies and their implementation across the EU.

Source

The dataset is collected from the Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) platform of the European Union. TED is the official platform for publishing public procurement notices across Europe.

Dataset Citation

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite it as follows:

@dataset{TED_EU_Tenders_2024,
  title={TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) EU Tenders Dataset},
  author={Pleias},
  year={2024},
  description={Collection of EU public procurement notices from the TED platform, organized by year and language, with detailed metadata extracted from XML files.}
}