LLM-Classified European Public IT Procurement Awards: Digitization, Digitalization, and Digital Transformation in German TED Notices, 2024–2025

This dataset contains LLM-based classifications of public IT procurement awards extracted from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the EU’s official public procurement portal. The dataset focuses on IT-related procurement awards in CPV divisions 48 (software packages and information systems) and 72 (IT services, consulting, software development, internet and support). Each record represents one procurement award with identifiable buyer and supplier information, normalized contract value, TED title and description fields, and an LLM-as-a-judge classification into three theoretically grounded types of digital change: Digitization, Digitalization, and Digital Transformation. The classification was generated using a zero-shot, rubric-based LLM prompt. For each award, the model received the procurement title and description and returned three scores ranging from 0 to 100, one for each digital-change dimension, plus a short textual reasoning. The final class label corresponds to the highest-scoring dimension. The dataset is intended for research on digital government, public procurement, GovTech markets, public-sector innovation, and AI-assisted analysis of administrative data. The dataset should be interpreted as a classification of procurement descriptions and procurement intent, not as evidence of actual implementation outcomes or realized digital transformation. Full tender documentation, project execution data, and ex post performance information are not included.