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Statutes, procurement notices and the evidence base

Procurement notices read as they're published, legislation read down to the section in force, and sector material read from the agencies and industries it actually concerns.

Four kinds of record

A notice, a section, an industry document and a story are four different things.

Point 01

Tenders as procurement records

Notices read from the issuing body, with the scope and closing date kept as structured detail rather than prose.

Point 02

Legislation at the section

Statutes read down to the section currently in force, not summarised as a single act.

Point 03

Sector documents from the industries themselves

Trade and industry material relevant to a policy area, read in its own words.

Point 04

Coverage as it's published

Public-sector and policy news, de-duplicated across outlets.

Jurisdictions, measured

Where these notices, statutes and standards actually come from.

Every shelf here breaks down by who issued it, which is usually the first question asked of a public record.

476k
documents
+25% in the last seven dayscovers 1764–20262.4 KB per record, stored2 feeds into it
Jurisdictions
Netherlands82%
Council of Europe8%
Australia5%
United States4%
European Union0.7%
1.6M
notices
+24% in the last seven dayscovers 20262.7 KB per record, stored
Jurisdictions
Germany31%
Poland25%
France16%
United Kingdom15%
Spain12%
739k
specifications
+9% in the last seven dayscovers 1967–20262.5 KB per record, stored
Who issues them
International Organization for Standardization59%
IETF39%
World Wide Web Consortium1%
Protection of Environment0.7%
Public Welfare0.4%
2.3M
works
+9% in the last seven dayscovers 1943–20272.9 KB per record, stored3 feeds into it
Fields
Medical47%
Dataset20%
Academic12%
General11%
Technical10%

Read from the running index when this page was served. Shares are of the records that declare the field, not of the whole shelf.

Questions

On whether notices stay current, and who reads them.

Are tenders kept current as they close?
They're read from the issuing bodies directly, so a closed or awarded notice is reflected rather than left listed as open.
Which workspace reads this today?
Research is live and reads all three of these collections; Docs, Knowledge and Data are on the roadmap.
Legislation, tenders and public research
Work from the notice itself.

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