About us

Company stories are boring, but we're here for a reason.

Open Opportunities was born out of the 2008 financial crisis. We were are consultancy, our focus was procurement, our clients were government and financial services. We went from 25 staff down to 2, but instead of packing up, we decided to reinvent ourselves as a data company and taught ourselves how to build databases.

"Open Opportunities was born out of the 2008 financial crisis."

We started compiling spreadsheets of council spending, in 2013 we were the first organisation to openly publish European tender data. In 2016 we launched as a global service, and we've subsequently grown to create the most advanced database of global contracting opportunities in the world.

We grow every month so that you can too.

In 2016 we had a handful of global procurement sources, since then our data has grown, month by month and day by day, into one of the most comprehensive tender datasets available. As we've added new data we added data enrichments: curriencies, countries, categories, attachments and more.

"What began with a handful of public procurement sources has grown, month by month and day by day"

Every expansion is guided by a commitment to accuracy and provenance: we document our processes, validate our scrapers, monitor data quality, and improve our schema so that users can rely on the consistency of our outputs. Our aim is not only to gather more data but to ensure that each new layer deepens understanding and helps suppliers navigate an increasingly complex global market.

We care deeply about the quality of our work.

Open Opportunities is built on a simple belief: that the right data in the right place can transform how suppliers find and win public contracts, so we treat data integrity as a core responsibility. We gather information methodically, using a robust, transparent processes to source, clean, and verify procurement data from thousands of public bodies.

"the right data in the right place can transform how suppliers find and win public contracts"

Every step; from harvesting and ingestion to deduplication and enrichment, is designed to preserve accuracy and provenance. We invest heavily in maintaining a consistent, standards-led pipeline because we know that any insight is only as reliable as the data beneath it.

We also think values matter.

Open Opportunities has a simple goal: to create the best global database of public contracting opportunities in the world. This new platform, signifies our commitment to ushering in a new era of transparency, accessibility, and efficiency in the global government procurement market.

In a rapidly evolving market, it is more important than ever to know who bought what from whom. The changing landscape, heavily impacted by AI demands new levels of accuracy and trustworthiness. That’s why Open Opportunities publishes our data under an open license so that anyone can use it.

Openly licensed data for use by researchers.

We publish our data openly so that researchers and analysts can use that data to better understand the buying activities of governments and to drive a better understanding of the global market for procurement data. Researchers can get in touch to access our data.

Because we enhance our data using machine learning and AI, researchers can use our data to create new insights and new analyses of the market. With common, clean country names, categories and mapped currencies it is possible to use our data to compare procurements from around the world.