About us

What is Open Opportunities?

Open Opportunities is a procurement intelligence platform that aggregates government tender and contract data from 860+ sources across 193 countries into a single searchable database.

Who is Open Opportunities for?

Open Opportunities is built for any business that sells to the public sector. Whether you're a one-person consultancy chasing local council work or a multinational targeting federal contracts across three continents, the same core problem applies: government buyers publish opportunities in hundreds of different places, and missing the right one costs you money.

You don't have to be an exporter to find us useful.

We're a global platform in the same way Google Maps is global, you probably don't visit every country, but you still want the best map. Having comprehensive worldwide coverage means better search, better data quality, and better tooling, even if you only ever bid in your country.

if you do sell internationally, we're the obvious choice

That said, if you do sell internationally, we're the obvious choice. Export-focused businesses consistently choose us because no other platform matches our breadth of sources or depth of enrichment across jurisdictions. It's why we're trusted by government export promotion agencies and trade bodies to power their own services.

Who are Open Opportunities Customers?

Our users span every sector that sells to government, but we see particularly strong adoption among:

• Technology and digital services — SaaS companies and digital consultancies use us to track software procurement, IT transformation programmes, and framework opportunities across multiple markets.
• Cyber security and defence — Security-cleared contractors and defence suppliers rely on us for MOD, NATO, and allied nation opportunities, plus the growing market for civilian cyber security services.
• Financial and professional services — Banks, insurers, auditors, and consultancies use us to monitor advisory mandates, outsourcing contracts, and regulatory-driven procurements.
• Life sciences and healthcare — Medical device manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies track NHS, EU health system, and international development health procurements.

If your business sells to government, anywhere in the world, Open Opportunities exists to make sure you never miss the contracts that matter.

Open Opportunities - the facts.

Our data
Total number of sources: 862
Total documents stored: 11.4 million
Average documents per day: 15,200
Countries covered: 193
Users accessing the service: 10,000+

Our company
Legal entity name: Ticon UK Ltd
Operating since: 2003
Company registration number: 04962733
Jurisdiction: England & Wales
Trading names: Open Opportunities, OpenOpps.com.

Pricing model
Subscription: Per seat
Free trial: 7 days
Contract terms: Monthly or annual

Why trust us?
Data standards: OCDS (Open Contracting Data Standard) publisher
Historic affiliations: Open Data Institute startup programme, Open Contracting Partnership
Data used by: UK Department for Business and Trade, Government of Switzerland, Government of Brazil, Sintef, University of Sussex, University of Milan
Press citations: The Economist, New York Times, BBC, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Financial Times, The Daily Mail

Company stories are boring, but we're here for a reason.

Open Opportunities was born out of the 2008 financial crisis. We were a consultancy, our focus was procurement, our clients were government and financial services. When everything went pop we went from 25 staff down to 2, but instead of packing up, we decided to reinvent ourselves as a data company and taught ourselves how to build databases.

"Open Opportunities was born out of the 2008 financial crisis."

We started compiling spreadsheets of council spending, in 2013 we were the first organisation to openly publish European tender data. In 2016 we launched as a global service, and we've subsequently grown to create the most advanced database of global contracting opportunities in the world.

We grow every month so that you can too.

In 2016 we had a handful of global procurement sources, since then our data has grown, month by month and day by day, into one of the most comprehensive tender datasets available. As we've added new data we added data enrichments: currencies, countries, categories, attachments and more.

"What began with a handful of public procurement sources has grown, month by month and day by day"

Every expansion is guided by a commitment to accuracy and provenance: we document our processes, validate our scrapers, monitor data quality, and improve our schema so that users can rely on the consistency of our outputs. Our aim is not only to gather more data but to ensure that each new layer deepens understanding and helps suppliers navigate an increasingly complex global market.

We care deeply about the quality of our work.

Open Opportunities is built on a simple belief: that the right data in the right place can transform how suppliers find and win public contracts, so we treat data integrity as a core responsibility. We gather information methodically, using a robust, transparent processes to source, clean, and verify procurement data from thousands of public bodies.

"the right data in the right place can transform how suppliers find and win public contracts"

Every step; from harvesting and ingestion to deduplication and enrichment, is designed to preserve accuracy and provenance. We invest heavily in maintaining a consistent, standards-led pipeline because we know that any insight is only as reliable as the data beneath it.

We also think values matter.

Open Opportunities has a simple goal: to create the best global database of public contracting opportunities in the world. This new platform, signifies our commitment to ushering in a new era of transparency, accessibility, and efficiency in the global government procurement market.

In a rapidly evolving market, it is more important than ever to know who bought what from whom. The changing landscape, heavily impacted by AI demands new levels of accuracy and trustworthiness. That’s why Open Opportunities publishes our data under an open license so that anyone can use it.

Openly licensed data for use by researchers.

We publish our data openly so that researchers and analysts can use that data to better understand the buying activities of governments and to drive a better understanding of the global market for procurement data. Researchers can get in touch to access our data.

Because we enhance our data using machine learning and AI, researchers can use our data to create new insights and new analyses of the market. With common, clean country names, categories and mapped currencies it is possible to use our data to compare procurements from around the world.