GAO Bid Protest Nexus
Copyright 2026 Tommy Kim (AcqAgent, https://acqagent.ai)

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See the LICENSE file for the
full terms.

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WHAT IS COVERED BY WHICH LICENSE
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1. Source code
   The dashboard code, the search backend, and the scripts are licensed under
   the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE.

2. Data, taxonomy, and derived indexes
   The 33-ground protest taxonomy, the per-decision coding, the decision
   metadata, and the vector index are licensed under the Creative Commons
   Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). See LICENSE-DATA.

3. Files that contain both
   The single-file dashboard (visualization/map.html) embeds the decision data
   inside the application code. In that file, and in any other file combining
   the two, the code is Apache 2.0 and the embedded decision data, taxonomy,
   and coding are CC BY 4.0.

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ATTRIBUTION AND THIRD-PARTY MATERIAL
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The decision corpus
   This project is built on decision corpora assembled by Kevin Misener:

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

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

   Both are used here in the same manner: the URLs to the decision PDFs, the
   33-ground taxonomy, and the per-decision coding were derived from them using
   AI. See LICENSE-CORPUS-MIT. If you reuse the corpus, 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. Cite GAO as the source.

Models
   The full bundle downloads BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5 and BAAI/bge-reranker-base
   at first run. Those models are not distributed with this project and remain
   subject to their own licenses.

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DISCLAIMER
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