An Open Knowledge Format (OKF v0.1) bundle describing the public-procurement tender corpus analysed by Lucius AI, and the headline findings from The State of Public Procurement 2026.
It packages — as plain markdown + YAML frontmatter, readable by humans and AI agents alike — the dataset, the key timing and complexity metrics, and the source report.
| Source / full report | https://ailucius.com/research/state-of-public-procurement-2026 |
| Producer | Lucius AI Systems, Inc. — compliance-first tender intelligence — https://ailucius.com |
| Corpus | 68,717 public tenders · 10 official sources · 7 countries (UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Norway; wider EU/EEA via TED) |
| Format | OKF v0.1 — start at index.md |
| License | CC BY 4.0 — reuse freely with attribution to Lucius AI |
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├── index.md # entry point — progressive disclosure
├── log.md # update history
├── datasets/
│ └── public-procurement-corpus.md # the 68,717-tender corpus
├── metrics/
│ ├── median-submission-window.md # 15-day median bid window
│ ├── submission-window-by-country.md # per-country windows (US 12 → AU 97)
│ ├── short-fuse-distribution.md # ≤7 / ≤14 / ≤30 day shares
│ └── requirement-density.md # 45 median / 694 max requirements
└── references/
└── state-of-public-procurement-2026.md # source report + methodology
The Open Knowledge Format is an open spec from Google Cloud for representing organisational knowledge — datasets, metrics, sources — as a directory of markdown files with YAML frontmatter, so the same knowledge can move between humans, AI agents, tools, and organisations. This bundle is conformant with OKF v0.1.
Lucius AI reads any RFP, tender or contract for clause-vs-clause contradictions, penalty traps and compliance gaps with page-cited evidence, then drafts compliant proposals across the full bid. The statistics in this bundle are a by-product of analysing public procurement at scale. → https://ailucius.com