How GovBiz Texas works

A Texas state-contracting data service for business developers, capture managers and the AI agents that work for them. It is the Texas extension of GovBiz.ai, run separately from the federal service.

Sources and legal basis

• LBB Contracts Database — state contracts reported under Tex. Gov't Code §322.020. Full export nightly.
• Electronic State Business Daily — solicitations, pre-solicitations and awards posted under Tex. Gov't Code §2155.083, which permits nongovernmental reuse of posted information.
• DIR cooperative contracts and vendor sales reports — Texas Open Data Portal (data.texas.gov).
• Legislative Appropriations Requests 2028–29 — agency-published LAR PDFs (ABEST schedules 2.E and 4.A).
• Form 1295 Certificates of Interested Parties — Texas Ethics Commission downloadable files.
• Active franchise tax permit holders and the debarred vendor list — Texas Comptroller.

Methods

• Vendor identity. LBB reports a 14-digit Comptroller vendor ID; its first 11 digits are the taxpayer number. Names from other sources are normalized (case, punctuation, legal suffixes) and matched to that number when one reported name maps to it, or when exactly one active franchise-tax record carries that name. Ambiguous names go to a human review queue; nothing is guessed silently. Each match carries its method and confidence.
• Contract end dates. LBB lists an expected completion date for about three quarters of active contracts. For the rest, the end date is estimated as award date plus the median duration of completed contracts at the same agency in the same category, and flagged end_date_estimated.
• Recompete likelihood is a published heuristic, not a prediction: competitive history raises it, provider-enrollment and interagency contracts lower it, value ≥ $1M and a matching ESBD posting raise it, estimated end dates lower it.
• Budget-to-procurement links match significant words between an exceptional-item request and later solicitations or contracts at the same agency.
• Change tracking. Sources rarely publish history, so each night's data is compared with the previous night's by key and content hash.

Boundaries

GovBiz Texas gives facts and labeled estimates. It does not make bid decisions, contact agencies, register vendors or submit anything. Form 1295 parties are shown exactly as filed; nothing is inferred about individuals beyond the filing.