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Copyright 2026 Tommy Kim (AcqAgent, https://acqagent.ai)

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WHAT THIS FILE COVERS
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This license applies to the data in this repository, which includes:

  - the 33-ground protest taxonomy
  - the per-decision coding against that taxonomy and the four case facets
    (disposition, outcome, procurement authority, posture)
  - the decision metadata, including the derived PDF URLs
  - the vector index and chunked text shipped in the full bundle
  - the decision data embedded inside visualization/map.html

The source code in this repository is licensed separately under the Apache
License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE and NOTICE.

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THE LICENSE
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The data is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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HOW TO ATTRIBUTE
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A citation in this form satisfies the attribution requirement:

  GAO Bid Protest Nexus, by Tommy Kim (AcqAgent, https://acqagent.ai),
  licensed under CC BY 4.0. Built on the GAO bid protest corpora by Kevin
  Misener (https://huggingface.co/datasets/Kmisener/GAO-Bid-Protest, MIT;
  https://github.com/kmisener90/GAO-Bid-Protest-Dataset, CC BY). Underlying
  decisions are works of the U.S. Government Accountability Office and are in
  the public domain.

If you modified the data, say so. For example: "Coding modified from the
original."

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MATERIAL NOT COVERED BY THIS LICENSE
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Underlying corpus
  The GAO bid protest decisions this project is built on were assembled by
  Kevin Misener and released in two collections:

    GAO-Bid-Protest, the larger corpus, under the MIT License
    https://huggingface.co/datasets/Kmisener/GAO-Bid-Protest

    GAO-Bid-Protest-Dataset, roughly 5,700 decisions, under a Creative Commons
    Attribution license
    https://github.com/kmisener90/GAO-Bid-Protest-Dataset

  Those licenses govern your reuse of the corpus itself; see
  LICENSE-CORPUS-MIT. Credit that source as well.

The decisions themselves
  Decisions of the U.S. Government Accountability Office are works of the
  United States federal government and are not subject to copyright protection
  in the United States (17 U.S.C. 105). They are in the public domain. No
  permission is needed to use them, and nothing in this license restricts that.
  Cite GAO as the source.

Names and marks
  "AcqAgent" and the AcqAgent name and logo are not licensed under CC BY 4.0
  or Apache 2.0. You may state that your work is based on the GAO Bid Protest
  Nexus. You may not present a modified version as an official AcqAgent
  release or use the AcqAgent name in a way that suggests endorsement.

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NO WARRANTY
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The data is provided as is, without warranties or conditions of any kind. The
coding was derived using AI and has not been verified decision by decision. It
is not legal advice. Verify anything you rely on against the original GAO
decision. Found a miscoded decision? Please open an issue.
