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Methodology
How ListingMinds finds, checks and publishes tender, auction and award data.
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ListingMinds is in development. This page describes how it works at launch.
In short
- Facts come from official sources, each linked to the page it came from.
- Facts that our automated checks cannot confirm are reviewed by a person before they are published.
- Changes, corrections and disagreements between sources are shown openly, with dates and sources.
- Coverage is measured against a verified set of real procurements, and no figure appears before that data is verified.
Where facts come from
Where each fact comes from, and how you can check it.
- Facts come from official sources and from the companies involved.
- Every fact links to the page and paragraph of the source it came from.
- Notices are read in their original language, and any translation is labelled as one.
More detail
- Trade press is used only as an early signal, labelled unconfirmed until an official source confirms it.
How facts are checked
Duplicates, verification states, and when a person reviews the data.
- A tender published in several sources is shown once, with every source listed.
- Every record shows each field's verification state in words, never as a score, with its source; when the record was last checked; and the coverage status of its market and sector.
- A data field is reviewed by a person before it is published when two independent automated readings of it disagree, or when the automated checks cannot confirm it.
More detail
- Records are matched by issuer, reference number and documents; where a match is uncertain, a person reviews it before the records are combined.
Freshness
How often sources are checked, and what happens when one is unavailable.
- Each source is checked on a schedule set by how often it publishes, and the time from its publication to ours (latency) is measured.
- When a source cannot be reached, its records stay visible with a note saying so, and are not presented as current.
Corrections and conflicting sources
What happens when a notice changes, we make a mistake, or sources disagree.
- When a source amends, corrects or cancels a notice, the record is updated and the change is shown with its date and source.
- When we publish something wrong, we correct it and say what changed and when.
- When two sources disagree on a fact, both values are shown with their sources, and the issuer's own publication takes precedence.
More detail
To report an error, write to hello@listingminds.com.
Prices
How award prices are shown, and how conversions are labelled.
- Award prices are shown first as published: the original currency, unit and date.
- A converted price states the exchange rate used, its source and date, and whether the price is nominal or adjusted for inflation.
Coverage and data quality
What we cover, what we measure, and why no figures appear yet.
ListingMinds covers six energy sectors: battery storage, renewables, capacity and flexibility, grid and T&D, hydrogen, and EV and e-bus charging infrastructure.
ListingMinds covers transport infrastructure: rail and metro, including rolling stock and its maintenance; roads, bridges and tunnels; ports and maritime, including quay works; airports; and urban mobility and transport systems. Shore power is split by what is bought: equipment and the grid connection sit under energy, berth and quay works under transport, and a contract that is not divided appears under both.
ListingMinds collects published opportunities, auctions, programmes and awards for energy and transport infrastructure from the publishers' own sources across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, and shows every relevant opportunity the sources it monitors publish. Coverage is never a filter: a market we haven't measured still appears in search and alerts. Where we can prove completeness, we say so. For selected markets and sectors, ListingMinds independently measures how many published opportunities it finds and how quickly. Only those that pass are marked Coverage verified; markets we monitor deliberately are marked Monitored. Until measurement has started, no coverage figures are shown. Tenders sent privately to selected suppliers are outside what public sources can show.
Our energy guides and field notes so far: Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, the Netherlands, Peru, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, the United States and Zambia, and the EU-wide hydrogen auctions.
Our transport guides and field notes so far: Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mozambique, the Netherlands, Sierra Leone, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States and Zambia.
More detail
- Coverage is measured as recall: the share of a reference set of real procurements, each verified by hand, that our monitoring identified, starting with battery storage and grid.
- (the claim's own once-verified wording) For each procurement in the reference set, we record the time between its publication and its detection by our monitoring (time to detect).
- Alongside recall, we report freshness, the award capture rate (the share of awards recorded) and the duplicate rate.
- The coverage page lists every source we check, with its schedule, its latency, its availability and the date it was last checked.
- Known gaps, such as a country or sector without a monitored source, are listed on the same page.
- Every record shows four things: the verification state of each field in words, never as a score; when it was last checked; where each fact came from; and any limit on coverage that applies to it.
Coverage figures come from the product's coverage data and appear only once that data is verified.