BidFigures

BidFigures — Line-item highway contract bid-price panel: 5,318 contractor unit-price observations across 554 unique roadwork contracts (Oregon ODOT statewide 285 contracts / 2,065 bids plus California Caltrans District 04 269 contracts / 3,253 bids), 2021-2026. Each observation retains the agency pay-item code, work-item definition, specification edition (2021 vs 2024 editions kept separate), unit, bid quantity, nominal unit price, bid date, bidder rank, and a per-observation source URL. Ships with an immutable SHA-256 acquisition register (Dataset v1), versioned source adapters, and machine-…

BidFigures offers (Alternative, Supply Chain, Reference) — Stated on the property: 5,318 bid observations across 554 unique contracts; Oregon 2,065 observations / 285 contracts across 8-12 work definitions; California District 04 3,253 observations / 269 contracts across 4 definitions; four tracked work families (asphalt paving, cold-plane milling/removal, aggregate base, pavement markings). Individually cited series reach 1,409 observations (Caltrans HOT MIX ASPHALT TYPE A) and 167-348 per Oregon definition-edition..

Highway and paving bid-price benchmarking for contractors and public agencies; engineer's-estimate calibration and bid-abuse / low-ball detection; pavement maintenance cost inflation measurement at the pay-item level; input features for construction cost indices and paving-margin models; contractor competitive-position and win-rate analytics (bidder rank retained); validation and regression testing for estimating/takeoff software; labeled numeric-retrieval and tabular-reasoning evaluation data for construction-domain AI agents.

The data is with 6 years of history.

Coverage spans US; Heavy Construction; alternative, supply_chain, reference; equities.