DATA FOUNDRY · PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
Normalized federal contract awards and awarding agency records.
Verified federal prime contract awards, obligated dollar amounts, recipient vendor identifiers, and awarding executive agency hierarchies from USASpending.
COMMERCIAL ACCESS
Verified Parquet archives + Claude MCP integration
- ✓ Verified Data Foundry Parquet partitions (zstd)
- ✓ Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool integration
- ✓ Metering: Inquire for Access
- ✓ Deterministic quality gate & hash verification
- ✓ Contractual commercial rights clearance
Quotes reviewed by systems engineering within 1 business day
COLUMN SPECIFICATIONS
Typed relational schema.
Columnar Parquet & DuckDB ready.
| Column Name | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
award_id |
VARCHAR(64) | Procurement Instrument Identifier (PIID) |
agency_name |
VARCHAR(128) | Awarding federal executive department or sub-agency |
recipient_name |
VARCHAR(150) | Contractor awardee legal business name |
obligated_amount |
DOUBLE | Federal dollar amount obligated on transaction |
award_date |
DATE | Contract transaction execution date |
description |
TEXT | Federal award statement of work summary |
SYSTEM STATUS & CAPABILITY BOUNDARIES
Engineering reality.
Verified operational features vs planned protocol capabilities.
Verified Operational Today
- ✓ Apache Parquet Partitions: Columnar archives (Zstandard compressed) with typed relational schemas.
- ✓ Zero-Copy Local Analytics: In-memory SQL exploration via DuckDB, Python Polars, and Arrow.
- ✓ Cryptographic Deduplication: SHA-256 release manifests and seen-keys ledger preventing record drift.
- ✓ Statutory Rights Clearance: 100% license-cleared provenance with statutory citations.
- ✓ Technical Quote Intake: Systems engineering review and schema sample verification.
Pilot & In-Specification Capabilities
- ◌ Remote MCP Streaming Adapter:
foundry_query_gov_awardstool endpoint available under enterprise pilot agreements. - ◌ Automated Micro-Settlement: Agent-to-agent procurement and escrow via EXCHANGER (active protocol specification).
- ◌ Multi-Region Edge Replicas: Global Cloudflare R2 bucket replication currently in private validation.
VERIFIED SAMPLE RECORD
Inspect the raw payload.
Zero mocked fields.
{
"award_id": "CONT_AWD_FA877026C0042",
"agency_name": "Department of the Air Force",
"recipient_name": "Palantir Technologies Inc.",
"obligated_amount": 24800000.0,
"award_date": "2026-10-18",
"description": "Enterprise AI mission data integration and sovereign decision infrastructure."
}
AGENT INTERFACE & MCP TOOL CONTRACT
Plug directly into Claude Code, Codex, and autonomous workflows.
Deterministic data retrieval.
Machine-Readable Contract
Direct dataset extraction is delivered via high-throughput columnar Apache Parquet. For autonomous assistants, ELYRAON provides standard Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool schemas and REST integration adapters with signed SHA-256 integrity receipts.
Adapter identifier: foundry_query_gov_awards
Pricing status: Inquire for Access
Active MCP Endpoint: https://elyraon.com.co/agents/mcp (Host to live structural verification tools; metered dataset adapters available in scoped pilots).
{"tool": "foundry_query_gov_awards", "arguments": {"agency_code": "097"}}
MACHINE-READABLE SPECIFICATIONS
Structured metadata for autonomous agents.
Zero scrapers, zero hallucinations.
{
"entity_id": "https://elyraon.com.co/datasets/us-gov-contracts-procurement/#dataset",
"catalog_id": "https://elyraon.com.co/datasets/#catalog",
"canonical_url": "https://elyraon.com.co/datasets/us-gov-contracts-procurement/",
"primary_format": "application/vnd.apache.parquet",
"compression": "zstd",
"ingestion_pipeline": "gov_contracts.py",
"mcp_tool_name": "foundry_query_gov_awards",
"license": "U.S. Government Public Domain (Freedom of Information)",
"duckdb_quickstart": "SELECT * FROM read_parquet('us-gov-contracts-procurement.parquet') LIMIT 5;"
}
WHY ELYRAON DATA FOUNDRY
Architectural contrast.
Built for engineering reality.
Transforms complex, deeply nested federal procurement APIs into tidy, flat Parquet tables ready for business development intelligence.
Conventional Data Feeds
- Undetected socket drops during volatility
- Messy unstructured CSV/JSON with broken parsers
- Ambiguous copyright terms creating lawsuit liability
- Expensive multi-thousand dollar rigid contracts
ELYRAON Data Foundry
- Continuous quality gate reconciliation
- Clean, typed, content-addressed Apache Parquet
- 100% license-cleared provenance with statutory citations
- Clear request-quote pricing and cryptographic delivery verification
RELATED DATASETS & AGENT PLATFORM
Connected intelligence feeds.
Cross-domain discovery and autonomous infrastructure.
TECHNICAL FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Clear answers.
Engineering boundaries.
What is the verified record count in Data Foundry?
563 verified procurement award transactions and 111 federal agency directory entries.
Are military and civilian agencies included?
Yes. Both DoD branches and civilian executive agencies are covered.
Can B2G teams identify prime contractors?
Yes. Normalized recipient names and UEI identifiers enable supplier intelligence.
Can this dataset be expanded for custom agency targets?
Yes. ELYRAON Foundry offers bespoke extraction pipelines for full historical procurement archives.
How is data delivered?
Delivered via Parquet file download or REST API integration.