From the #163 zero-bid accounting, after #165. The older-era analog of #164.
The gap
266 awarded solicitations, 2013-2018, each ≥$500K, still have zero captured bids — and their winning supplier is absent from every captured Bid Award Panel / Bid Committee agenda. So unlike the recall tail (#166), a matching council item almost certainly does not exist in our corpus: these large awards never went to the Bid Award Panel.
Why they're missing
Awards above the panel's delegation ceiling were decided by Council or a Standing Committee — even in the 2013-2018 era. The archive mines only BA/BD agendas (the 891 cached pages), so these never enter the bid corpus. This is exactly #164's mechanism, one era earlier and at a smaller dollar tier (≥$500K rather than the modern ≥$3M mega-awards).
Suggested direction
Same as #164 (and best solved together): identify large pre-2019 awards with no captured bids and no panel agenda, locate their committee decision + staff report on legdocs (plain HTTP), and parse the bid table (a new parser; committee reports differ from BA agendas — validate against real reports). Some will be genuine emergency/sole-source (no bids by nature) and must be refused.
Consider folding into #164 as "extend the committee bid-capture back to 2013" rather than a separate build — one committee-report source covers both tiers.
Related: #164 (modern mega-awards), #166 (recall tail), #163 (accounting).
From the #163 zero-bid accounting, after #165. The older-era analog of #164.
The gap
266 awarded solicitations, 2013-2018, each ≥$500K, still have zero captured bids — and their winning supplier is absent from every captured Bid Award Panel / Bid Committee agenda. So unlike the recall tail (#166), a matching council item almost certainly does not exist in our corpus: these large awards never went to the Bid Award Panel.
Why they're missing
Awards above the panel's delegation ceiling were decided by Council or a Standing Committee — even in the 2013-2018 era. The archive mines only BA/BD agendas (the 891 cached pages), so these never enter the bid corpus. This is exactly #164's mechanism, one era earlier and at a smaller dollar tier (≥$500K rather than the modern ≥$3M mega-awards).
Suggested direction
Same as #164 (and best solved together): identify large pre-2019 awards with no captured bids and no panel agenda, locate their committee decision + staff report on legdocs (plain HTTP), and parse the bid table (a new parser; committee reports differ from BA agendas — validate against real reports). Some will be genuine emergency/sole-source (no bids by nature) and must be refused.
Consider folding into #164 as "extend the committee bid-capture back to 2013" rather than a separate build — one committee-report source covers both tiers.
Related: #164 (modern mega-awards), #166 (recall tail), #163 (accounting).