Pull state DOT bid-letting results for earthwork/sitework bidding (TxDOT, FDOT, NCDOT)
domain: data.texas.gov · 4 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
For Texas, use TxDOT's Bid Tabulations dataset on the Texas Open Data Portal (data.texas.gov, Socrata/SODA-based), plus related Project Information and Recapitulation datasets, queried via the standard SODA API (dev.socrata.com) rather than scraping TxDOT's bid-tabulations dashboard pages.
For Florida, treat bidletting.fdot.gov as a web portal, not an API — results are organized by district/date with no documented CSV/API export, so plan on parsing HTML or downloading posted files per letting.
For North Carolina, use NCDOT's Bid Tab Sheets page (connect.ncdot.gov/letting/pages/bid-tabs.aspx), which likewise publishes per-letting files rather than a queryable dataset.
Cross-check whichever state's numbers you pull against that DOT's own published letting/award page, since third-party aggregators (e.g., DOTestimate) repackage this data and may lag or reformat it.
Known gotchas
Only TxDOT's Socrata portal offers a genuine API with query/filter support; FDOT and NCDOT require file-by-file collection — don't assume open-data parity across states.
TxDOT's bid-tabulations dashboard is a rolling window (roughly trailing 24 months); confirm the underlying dataset's actual date range before assuming historical completeness.
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