Contract Wins Dataset 2019–2026: Orders & Tenders

Key findings

1. 90,019 contract wins and orders by 41,030 companies, January 2019 to June 2026. 88% name the client organisation.
2. Contract announcements rose from 7,244 in 2019 to 15,023 in 2025; 2026 has 6,387 in its first half.
3. Government is the client in 12% of contracts with a known client type. Defence accounts for 3,126 contracts, infrastructure and construction 11,099, IT and technology 18,943.
4. 20,660 contracts (23%) disclose a value, together $9.4T; the median is $36.0M. The largest is Boeing for Air India ($100.0B, 2023).
5. The most frequent winner is Boeing with 332 contracts, followed by Larsen Toubro (306) and Airbus (302).
6. By contractor country: United States 19,618, India 11,698, United Kingdom 6,310, Canada 4,768, Australia 3,772 contracts; 48% of contracts with a known country go to companies in the top three.

Contract wins by year

2026 covers January to June.

Top 50 largest contracts worldwide, 2019–2026

Disclosed values only, checked against the news sentence. Multi-year framework values are reported as announced.

Companies with the most contract wins (top 50)

Government vs private clients by contract type

Government covers ministries, agencies, public bodies, state-owned companies and armed forces, recognised from the client name.

Government buyers awarding the most contracts (top 40)

Client names as reported; one body can appear under several spellings.

Contract wins by contractor country (top 40)

Contract wins by contractor country and year (top 30)

Contract wins by sector (top 30)

Top 50 largest contracts won by US companies, 2019–2026

US companies with the most contract wins (top 50)

US contract wins by contractor HQ state (top 25)

HQ location from the company database.

Top 50 largest contracts won by UK companies, 2019–2026

UK companies with the most contract wins (top 50)

UK contract wins by contractor HQ city (top 25)

HQ location from the company database.

Top 50 largest contracts won by Indian companies, 2019–2026

Indian companies with the most contract wins (top 50)

Indian contract wins by contractor HQ state (top 25)

HQ location from the company database.

Column dictionary

21 columns in the sample CSV.

Method

1. Extraction. Radar's pipeline reads each news article, finds contract sentences and extracts contractor, client, value, currency, type and sector. Upstream, reports carrying the same event fingerprint are grouped and retrospective mentions are dropped.
2. Window and dates. The date is the publication date of the earliest report, read in Indian Standard Time; January 2019 to June 2026. Bulk archive back-fill days are dropped.
3. Scope. Rows typed as investments, acquisitions, sales or equity, and sentences about an acquisition with no contract wording, are dropped.
4. Parties. The contractor must be an organisation; rows whose client is a person are dropped, and generic or undisclosed clients ("a leading bank") are blanked. A website is kept only when the company record matches the reported name; the same company on both sides is dropped.
5. Contract type. From the extracted type and keywords in the sentence and client name, in priority order: Defence, Infrastructure & construction, IT & technology, Supply, Services, Maintenance & O&M, Outsourcing, Government (other), Other.
6. Client type. Government when the client name is a ministry, agency, public body, armed force or a known state-owned company; private for other named clients; with no client named, government only when the sentence says so.
7. One row per contract. Per contractor, in date order: the same client within 60 days, the same value (±3%) within 180 days, or sentences sharing half their words within 30 days are one contract. Exact repeat sentences are removed first.
8. Countries. Normalised (USA / US → United States). A company's country is the one most often reported for it across all its contracts (at least two reports and a majority), else the country in the report, else the company database.

9. Amounts. Values are converted to US$ and kept when they match a money figure in the sentence (0.6–1.7×, verified) or the sentence has no parseable figure and the value is plausible (unchecked). Values above $100B are blanked, above $10B they must be verified and reported more than once, and unchecked values above $1B are blanked.

10. Sample. Each contractor key is ranked by sha1(key). Keys are taken in rank order until the file holds max(25%, 5,000) rows (capped at 100,000).

11. Profile links. Links are built from Fliar's company index and checked against it. A row whose company has no public profile has an empty link.

Limitations

• Derived from news and company announcements: unannounced contracts are missing; listed companies that must disclose orders (India in particular) are over-represented.
• ClickHouse shards were partially unavailable at build time (shard 2 down; queries skip unavailable shards), so some contracts may be missing. Article links resolve for roughly half of the rows because some article-store nodes were down.
• Contract values mix annual, multi-year and ceiling values as announced; most contracts disclose no value.
• Contract and client types are rule-based and some are wrong; state-owned companies are recognised only when well known.
• Merging is automatic: repeat orders from one client within 60 days count as one contract.
• 2026 covers January to June only.

Cite this dataset

@misc{fliarbi_contract_wins_2019_2026_2026,
  author    = {{Fliar BI}},
  title     = {{Contract Wins Dataset 2019–2026: Orders & Tenders}},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Fliar BI},
  url       = {https://fliarbi.com/datasets/contract-wins-2019-2026/},
  note      = {Sample release. Licence CC BY-NC 4.0}
}