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Houston Contracts & Procurement

City contracts, awards, and procurement opportunities for businesses.

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300
Records
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19
Red flags
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89
Quality score
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monthly
Update frequency

Data Detective

Tip

Scan the map for red dots and check the chart for spikes. Big jumps or drops are usually where the interesting questions live.

Source: The numbers above come straight from Houston Open Data.

πŸ“ Data quality breakdown

How healthy is this dataset across five dimensions?

Completeness 94/100
Freshness 70/100
Location 99/100
Consistency 95/100
Usefulness 85/100

πŸ—ΊοΈ Where the data lives

Up to 300 geolocated records. Red markers are flagged values.

πŸ“ˆ Activity over time

Record volume by month, or by status when no dates exist.

🚩 Open red flags

Suspicious values our scanner caught β€” see if you agree.

🚩 High · future date
95% sure

This record is dated in the future.

occurred_at 2026-07-08
A 311 request can't be created next year. A future date usually means someone typed the date wrong or a computer formatted it incorrectly.

Next step: Check for a typo or a time-zone/format bug at the source.

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🚩 High · future date
95% sure

This record is dated in the future.

occurred_at 2026-07-09
A 311 request can't be created next year. A future date usually means someone typed the date wrong or a computer formatted it incorrectly.

Next step: Check for a typo or a time-zone/format bug at the source.

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🚩 High · future date
95% sure

This record is dated in the future.

occurred_at 2026-08-06
A 311 request can't be created next year. A future date usually means someone typed the date wrong or a computer formatted it incorrectly.

Next step: Check for a typo or a time-zone/format bug at the source.

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🚩 High · impossible negative
85% sure

A count or amount is negative where that should be impossible.

numeric_value -88
You can't have negative days to fix a pothole, or negative permits. A negative number here is a sign of a data-entry or calculation mistake.

Next step: Confirm whether negatives represent refunds/corrections or are simply errors.

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🚩 High · impossible negative
85% sure

A count or amount is negative where that should be impossible.

numeric_value -65
You can't have negative days to fix a pothole, or negative permits. A negative number here is a sign of a data-entry or calculation mistake.

Next step: Confirm whether negatives represent refunds/corrections or are simply errors.

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🚩 High · impossible negative
85% sure

A count or amount is negative where that should be impossible.

numeric_value -29
You can't have negative days to fix a pothole, or negative permits. A negative number here is a sign of a data-entry or calculation mistake.

Next step: Confirm whether negatives represent refunds/corrections or are simply errors.

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🚩 Medium · missing value
90% sure

The field "reported_by" is empty in 33% of records.

reported_by 33% empty
Think of a class roster where most students never filled in their phone number. If "reported_by" is blank 33% of the time, we can't trust any total or map that depends on it.

Next step: Ask the owning department why this field is so often blank.

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🚩 Medium · broken coordinates
85% sure

Coordinates are missing, 0/0, or outside the Houston area.

lat/lng 0, 0
A point at 0,0 sits in the ocean off Africa. If a Houston event maps there, the location data is broken and the map will mislead people.

Next step: Re-geocode the address or drop the broken point from maps.

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⚠️ Known issues

  • β€’Award amounts sometimes blank
  • β€’Vendor IDs inconsistent

πŸ’‘ Public use cases

  • β€’Find business opportunities
  • β€’Track major awards
  • β€’Watch for expiring contracts

πŸ“ Geo fields

No geo fields mapped.

πŸ•’ Time fields

award_date expiration_date

Records: 300

Update frequency: monthly

Last imported: 21 hours ago

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