Transparency

How BuzzBaboon knows what it knows.

Two kinds of record. The trade and award records behind the map, the lanes and the Buyer Book, read in full from their publishers. And the registry of sources the weekly developments are read from, which is deliberately selective and not exhaustive.

The record behind the map, the lanes and the Buyer Book

World trade, every country. CEPII BACI, every bilateral flow by product. Behind every Made here country page and every trade lane. Moves once a year.

UK imports and exports. HMRC UK Trade Info, Overseas Trade Statistics by customs line and Regional Trade Statistics by region. Behind the UK edition. Moves every month.

UK tenders and awards. Contracts Finder and Find a Tender. The public buyers on the UK edition and the tenders, awards and end dates in the brief. Moves every working day: it is the only layer that does.

Award records beyond the UK. TED for the EU and EEA, USAspending for US federal awards, the Government of Canada's proactive publication of contracts, and AusTender. The public buyers on the country pages and in the Buyer Book, 33 countries in all. Read for a year at a time.

Joining a notice to a product. Public buyers classify notices by procurement codes (CPV, PSC, UNSPSC, GSIN), not by customs heading. The crosswalks between them are BuzzBaboon's own, approximate, and named as such on every page that uses them. Only notices the buyer classified as goods are joined.

Each page names its edition and its window. The methodology says how a gap is scored and how a buyer is counted.

Current status
Sources in registry
12
Connected and ingesting
4
Developments in the system
55
Data set
Live
Website extraction
Reader deployed: a language model reads the public site and the visitor confirms the profile
Product state
live-beta

4 of 12 sources are connected. Status is read from the source registry at build time, so it reflects what is actually running.

This page will not be quietly changed once ingestion begins. Status is read from the source registry, and the build fails if the rest of the site claims otherwise.

Source registry: the weekly developments

GOV.UK Primary source Government active
UK Government announcements · Ministerial announcements, funding programmes, industrial strategy, CMA cases. Adapter: scripts/ingest/fetch.js (govuk), via the official GOV.UK search and content APIs.
Country GB Adapter GovernmentSourceAdapter Last checked 2026-09-12 16:40 UTC Licence Open Government Licence v3.0
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legislation.gov.uk Primary source Regulator not-connected
UK legislation · Statutory instruments and commencement dates.
Country GB Adapter RegulatorySourceAdapter Last checked never Licence Open Government Licence v3.0
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Tenders Electronic Daily Primary source Procurement limited
EU public procurement notices · Above-threshold EU tenders. High value for procurement-triggered opportunities. Adapter: scripts/ingest/fetch.js (ted), via the TED v3 API. Fetched and triaged; no notice curated into a signal yet.
Country EU Adapter ProcurementSourceAdapter Last checked 2026-09-12 16:40 UTC Licence Check publisher terms before ingestion
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EUR-Lex Primary source Regulator not-connected
EU law and consultations · Regulations and directives entering consultation or force.
Country EU Adapter RegulatorySourceAdapter Last checked never Licence Check publisher terms before ingestion
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Federal Register Primary source Regulator active
US rulemaking · Documented public API. Strong first integration candidate. Adapter: scripts/ingest/fetch.js (federalregister), rules and proposed rules via the Federal Register API.
Country US Adapter RegulatorySourceAdapter Last checked 2026-09-12 16:40 UTC Licence US Government work, public domain
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US Securities and Exchange Commission Primary source Company not-connected
EDGAR company filings · Capital commitments and expansion disclosed in filings. Requires a declared user agent.
Country US Adapter CompanyNewsroomAdapter Last checked never Licence US Government work, public domain
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SAM.gov Primary source Procurement not-connected
US federal contract opportunities · API key required.
Country US Adapter ProcurementSourceAdapter Last checked never Licence US Government work, public domain
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Company newsrooms Primary source Company not-connected
Investor relations and press releases · Per-company RSS and IR feeds, added individually. Never scrape where terms prohibit it.
Country GLOBAL Adapter CompanyNewsroomAdapter Last checked never Licence Per publisher. Respect robots.txt and terms in every case.
Licensed news aggregation Secondary source Licensed data not-connected
Commercial news API · No provider selected and no contract in place. Corroboration layer only, never the sole basis for a HIGH confidence signal.
Country GLOBAL Adapter NewsSourceAdapter Last checked never Licence Commercial licence required before any use
Event data provider Secondary source Licensed data not-connected
Conference and exhibition data · Deliberately provider-agnostic. EventSourceAdapter must not depend on one vendor.
Country GLOBAL Adapter EventSourceAdapter Last checked never Licence Commercial licence required before any use
Find a Tender Primary source Procurement active
UK above-threshold procurement notices (Find a Tender Service) · Planning, tender and award notices under the Procurement Act 2023, via the OCDS release API.
Country GB Adapter ProcurementSourceAdapter (scripts/ingest/fetch.js findatender) Last checked 2026-09-12 16:40 UTC Licence Open Government Licence v3.0
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Contracts Finder Primary source Procurement active
UK public sector contract notices (Contracts Finder) · Below-threshold and above-threshold notices, via the OCDS search API.
Country GB Adapter ProcurementSourceAdapter (scripts/ingest/fetch.js contractsfinder) Last checked 2026-09-12 16:40 UTC Licence Open Government Licence v3.0
Publisher →

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BuzzBaboon does not claim complete global knowledge. If a development matters and it is not here, tell us and it goes into the review queue.