1 · What's open
Only records whose own source says they are open or forecast. A contract's end date is not a deadline — and it used to be treated as one, which made hundreds of already-awarded contracts look biddable.
Free & open public data · nothing invented
Stop guessing what to build.
Look at what governments
are already paying for.
Every week, public bodies publish the work they need done and the money they have to spend on it. Most of it is buried in feeds nobody reads. OppShop pulls those feeds, shows you what is open right now, and puts each opening next to the award history behind it — so you can see whether that buyer really spends, how big the cheques are, and who you'd be up against.
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How it answers "what should I do?"
An opportunity on its own is a lottery ticket. An opportunity next to the buyer's history is a decision.
2 · Who pays for it
Where the buyer has awarded before, you see how many, the median cheque and how many suppliers share the work. Where they haven't, you see the wider market instead — and the page says which of the two you are reading.
3 · Who you'd beat
If one supplier has taken 80% of a buyer's awards, you're facing an incumbent. If the work is spread across a dozen, it's contestable. That number is on every card.
What this will not do for you
It will not tell you that you are eligible. Many grants are restricted to universities or registered charities; many tenders need prior accreditation or a place on a framework. Eligibility is not modelled. Read the notice.
It is not the whole market. Most feeds return one page of results, and several are sorted by value, so you are seeing the largest N — not everything. The source register states each cap.
It never invents a number. Values span several currencies and are never converted or added together. Placeholder records generated when an API key is missing are excluded from every page here.
Most public data is history, not opportunity. The great majority of these records are contracts already awarded. That is not a flaw — it is the evidence base that makes the open ones legible. But it is why the open list is short.