Civic Data Collective publishes Massachusetts government data — procurement records and legislative activity — in formats that researchers, journalists, nonprofits, and vendors can actually use.
Every year, Massachusetts government agencies post thousands of procurement bids on COMMBUYS — requests for goods, services, and construction projects worth billions of dollars. That data is public, but it's buried in a legacy portal designed for registered vendors, not the general public. We fix that.
We automatically harvest bid solicitations, vendor quotes, attachments, and award data from COMMBUYS every day — structured and standardized.
Clean CSV and JSON datasets, searchable tables, and a REST API — all freely available without registration, login, or COMMBUYS account.
Subscribe to notifications when new bids match your interests — by agency, commodity code, dollar threshold, or keyword. Coming Soon
Our first published dataset covers the Executive Office of Housing & Livable Communities (EOHLC) — the Massachusetts agency overseeing affordable housing, community development, and rental assistance programs.
EOHLC posts housing program solicitations, NOFA (Notice of Funding Availability) documents, and professional services bids on COMMBUYS. We track every one — including vendor quotes and all uploaded attachments.
| Organization | EOHLC |
| Description | HDIP 2026 NOFA |
| Opening Date | Dec 23, 2026 |
| Status | Sent |
| Attachments | 1 document |
| SBPP Eligible | No |
| Chamber | House |
| Title | An Act establishing the official crustacean of the Commonwealth |
| Sponsor | Joan Meschino, Patrick M. O'Connor |
| Status | Referred to Joint Committee on State Administration |
| History | 3 actions |
Every bill introduced in the 2025–2026 Massachusetts legislative session — all 8,364 House and Senate bills — with sponsor, committee referral, current status, and full action history.
The MA Legislature publishes bill pages publicly, but there's no bulk export or structured data feed. We scrape every bill weekly and publish the result as a clean, downloadable dataset — with history normalized into its own table for easy querying.
We're building a platform that grows with the data.
Automated daily scraping of COMMBUYS. New bids detected within 24 hours. Changes to open bids (addenda, extended deadlines) captured and logged.
Browse and search all 94 Massachusetts Statewide Contracts with the SWC Explorer — filter by category, search vendors, and see spending data.
Full CSV and JSON exports for bids, quotes, statewide contracts, and spending data. Updated daily. No registration required.
Query bids and quotes programmatically. Ideal for developers building vendor tools, research dashboards, or accountability applications.
Email notifications for new bids matching saved searches. Subscribe by agency, NIGP commodity code, or keywords.
All 1,944 active statewide contract vendor records (MBPOs) across 94 contract categories — already captured. Additional agency bid data planned for Q4 2026.
All 8,364 bills from the 194th General Court scraped and published. Weekly updates detect new bills and log history changes. Bill PDFs archived for full-text search.
Investigate contracting patterns, track spending by agency, and identify vendors winning repeat awards — all in one place.
Find relevant bidding opportunities without needing a COMMBUYS vendor account. Get alerts when agencies you work with post new RFPs.
Monitor housing and community development funding opportunities. Track how public money is allocated and to which organizations.