City of Dover bids and bid results
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City purchasing bids and the bid tabulations: who bid, and for how much.

Published by: City of Dover
Source: https://www.cityofdover.gov/bid-tabulations, https://www.cityofdover.gov/bid-procurement
License: Facts only (no license needed for the facts)
Credit line: Bid records from the City of Dover Purchasing office, cityofdover.gov.
Updated: Daily
Covers: Fiscal year 2021 to now
Area: Dover, Delaware

Stored fields are facts: bid numbers, dates, vendor names and dollar amounts. We found no City of Dover terms of use page (common paths returned 404) and nothing that limits reuse of public bid results.

Files
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- procurement_bids.csv and procurement_bids.json: id, bid_number, title, department, opening_date, fiscal_year, status, awarded_vendor_name, awarded_amount, lowest_bid_amount, is_lowest_bidder_awarded, submissions_count, related_meeting_id, related_motion_id, source_url, r2_key, notes, created_at, updated_at
- procurement_bid_submissions.csv and procurement_bid_submissions.json: id, bid_id, bid_number, vendor_name, vendor_city, vendor_state, is_local_dover_vendor, base_bid_amount, alternate_bid_amount, total_evaluated_amount, rank_order, is_awarded, matched_business_license_number, matched_campaign_contribution_total, notes, created_at

Each file is built from OpenDover's database when you download it. In the CSV files, text that a spreadsheet would
treat as a formula (starting with =, +, @ or -) begins with an apostrophe so it opens as plain text. The JSON files
hold the values exactly.

This copy: 2026-11-08

More: https://opendover.org/data/dover-bid-results/
API: https://api.opendover.org/v1/datasets/dover-bid-results