{"id":"ebffe399-1f38-48bc-86a5-1b1c64ef66af","task":"Pull state DOT bid-letting results for earthwork/sitework bidding (TxDOT, FDOT, NCDOT)","domain":"data.texas.gov","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."],"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."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-13T00:23:47.153Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/ebffe399-1f38-48bc-86a5-1b1c64ef66af"}