How many open public bids have at least one document we downloaded, by state and by platform. A measure of our collection, with its date and sample size.
75.8%
A measure of our collection, not of buyer practice.
Cohort: cleared US state and local bids.
Of 7,453 open bids from cleared sources, 5,652 had at least one document we downloaded. That is 75.8%.
This measures our collection, not what a buyer offers. A bid with no downloaded document might have documents we could not reach or none at all, and the release does not separate the two. Read it as how often a bid we hold comes with at least one document we hold.
This covers cleared sources only. Across all state and local bids we hold, we held a document for 51% to 58% (October 29 to November 1, 2026), and for federal bids on SAM.gov 29% (October 29, 2026). Those were measured separately on a different cohort, so do not compare them with this figure. How we count.
Across the 17 states with at least 150 open bids, the share runs from 28.1% in Washington (505 open bids) to 95.1% in Hawaii (183 open bids).
By platform group, it runs from 10.7% on Official procurement notice pages (253 open bids) to 98.8% on Michigan SIGMA Vendor Self-Service (168 open bids).
Each bar is the share of a state's open bids that have at least one document we downloaded.
Bars run from 0% to 100%.
| State | Open bids | With a downloaded document |
|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 183 | 95.1% |
| Missouri | 153 | 94.1% |
| North Carolina | 371 | 93.5% |
| Michigan | 241 | 92.1% |
| Virginia | 150 | 92.0% |
| New Jersey | 351 | 88.6% |
| Oregon | 181 | 87.3% |
| Pennsylvania | 220 | 86.4% |
| Illinois | 440 | 85.0% |
| Florida | 631 | 84.6% |
| California | 630 | 84.3% |
| Texas | 404 | 82.4% |
| Louisiana | 236 | 78.0% |
| Ohio | 290 | 47.9% |
| New York | 199 | 40.2% |
| South Carolina | 365 | 40.0% |
| Washington | 505 | 28.1% |
A state appears only when it has at least 150 open bids. Smaller states are not published, because a share from a few dozen bids moves too much from one week to the next.
Each bar is the share of a platform group's open bids that have at least one document we downloaded.
Bars run from 0% to 100%.
| Platform group | Open bids | With a downloaded document |
|---|---|---|
| Michigan SIGMA Vendor Self-Service | 168 | 98.8% |
| North Carolina eVP | 250 | 98.8% |
| OpenGov Procurement | 1,285 | 97.4% |
| Illinois BidBuy | 153 | 90.2% |
| Buyer and agency websites (no tracked platform) | 1,822 | 78.8% |
| CivicPlus bid pages | 763 | 71.8% |
| Other portals | 999 | 65.0% |
| South Carolina Business Opportunities | 321 | 32.1% |
| Official procurement notice pages | 253 | 10.7% |
A platform group appears only when it has at least 150 open bids. Platform groups are our own sorting of sources by the software that serves their bid pages.
These files are the release these figures come from. They are plain CSV and JSON, they sit at fixed addresses, and each one is listed with its size and a hash in manifest.json, so you can check that what you hold is what we published.
Release date, code revision, rule version, row counts in and out, and a hash of every file
Document access by platform group
Document access by state
Open bids with a downloaded document, overall, by state and by platform
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Cite as: VelocityBids, Public Bid Access Observatory, release 2026-11-01-r2, November 1, 2026. https://www.velocitybids.ai/data/document-access
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2,951 cleared sources posted bids due August 3 to November 1, 2026, and the five largest named platforms held 42.5% of those bids; 25.0% sat on no tracked platform.
The median bid was first seen 5.2 days after posting, across 8,502 bids due August 3 to November 1, 2026 with a posting date more than a day before first sighting.
The median cleared bid gave 23.6 days from posting to due date, across 13,116 bids due August 3 to November 1, 2026.