Discover a comprehensive resource for capturing, aggregating, and analyzing historical government surplus auction (GSA) results. Our platform offers complete access to federal auction data dating back to 2016, with every auction result available for easy download. Presented in browsable and searchable formats, this solution delivers the insights you need—all in one convenient CSV file.
Data Acquisition
Accessing reliable, consolidated data on federal surplus auctions has been challenging due to fragmented sources, outdated or broken government APIs, and a lack of comparable data in the market. With no comprehensive data sources available, finding insights and trends has remained difficult—until now.
Comprehensive, Aggregated Results
Our platform identifies, captures, and tracks auction data, making it easy to compare results across years and categories—all in one centralized location. Access detailed, organized insights that transform fragmented information into actionable, easily comparable data.
Our data architecture is meticulously designed to ensure accuracy and completeness at every stage. By employing a robust capture process, we can swiftly identify missing auctions or stale results, maintaining the highest standards of data quality. These four major steps and pillars form the foundation of our data pipeline, guaranteeing reliable, up-to-date insights for our users.
A robust capture process is necessary as the Government Surplus Agency (GSA) auctions between 30K and 40K auctions per year. This means around 700 items per week of all category types are auctioned via this facility.
Auctions are constantly moving from Preview to Live before ultimately closing. We routinely scan all non-closed auctions to ensure data integrity, and we are constantly updating live auction results in our systems with new pricing and final results.
We utilize artificial intelligence to re-write auction descriptions to highlight all key information and remove noisy disclaimers. We also use AI to review auction categorization to ensure its appropriately aligned.
Auctions are monitored throughout their entire life cycle. Our data methodology creates a high level of data integrity.
