Understand the agencies, winners, and costs of global government contracts

What is TenderAlpha?

TenderAlpha is a global government contracts data provider that collects tender and award filings from official procurement sources in more than 65 countries and standardizes them into a single dataset built for analysis. The company has tracked over 120 million government contract awards since 2010, enriching each record with entity identifiers so that publicly listed suppliers are mapped to stock tickers and private suppliers are mapped to tax IDs. That mapping layer is what makes the data usable for serious empirical research.

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What academic researchers should know about TenderAlpha government contracts data

TenderAlpha on Dewey includes three datasets: Unified Government Contract Awards, Green Government Contracts, and U.S. Subcontracting Data. The Unified file covers 120 million awards across 65 countries from 2010 to present. Green Government Contracts applies a proprietary methodology inspired by EU Green Public Procurement criteria to flag sustainable and environmentally oriented awards worldwide. The U.S. Subcontracting file covers more than 320,000 subcontracts since 2018, over $1.5 trillion in total value, and links second tier suppliers back to the prime contractor and the awarding agency.

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Why academic researchers choose TenderAlpha on Dewey

Most public procurement research lives inside datasets scoped to a single country, like FPDS for the U.S. or TED for the EU, each with its own schema, entity naming, and update cadence. TenderAlpha flattens that. You get one global schema, one set of identifiers, and one file to query, with publicly listed suppliers mapped to stock tickers so you can link award flow to equity market data out of the box. The subcontracting feed adds hierarchical visibility into who actually performs the work downstream of prime contracts, and the green procurement file surfaces ESG exposure from the supplier side of government spending. TenderAlpha pairs naturally with BrightQuery for U.S. company financials and employment, LobbyingData for the policy influence layer, and Veridion for global firmographic context.

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TenderAlpha academic research ideas and use cases

Government contracts and equity performance. Because TenderAlpha maps publicly listed awardees to stock tickers, finance researchers can connect award flow to equity outcomes at the firm level. Productive questions include whether new contract wins predict abnormal returns around award announcement dates, how revenue concentration from government clients shapes cost of capital, and whether firms with persistent procurement relationships outperform peers over long horizons.

Public procurement and industrial policy. Economists and policy researchers can study how much governments actually spend, on what, and with which suppliers, across 65 countries and more than 15 years of data. Strong threads include how stimulus programs shifted procurement flows during and after Covid, whether domestic preference policies actually steer awards toward national suppliers, and how procurement concentration evolves when governments consolidate purchasing agencies.

Subcontractor visibility and supply chain research. The U.S. Subcontracting feed goes beyond prime awards to capture the second tier of suppliers actually performing the work, with more than 320,000 subcontracts and 55,000 companies tracked. That opens up research on supply chain concentration in defense and other critical sectors, how foreign exposure flows through U.S. procurement, and whether preference programs intended for small businesses actually reach them once subcontracting is factored in.

Green procurement and ESG research. The Green Government Contracts dataset identifies awards that meet sustainability criteria drawn from EU Green Public Procurement standards, turning procurement into a lens for ESG research. Researchers can measure how much green spending actually happens across countries and agencies, test whether policy announcements about climate procurement translate into real award flow, and compare suppliers' green contract shares against their broader ESG profile. Pairing this with ClimateCheck physical risk data or Veridion ESG scores supports multidisciplinary ESG work.

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Dive deeper with Dewey documentation

Detailed information on onboarding with Dewey, data partner details, and technical documentation on data access.

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