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Hawaiʻi County (Big Island) — Contract Awards

Source gap — pending

Every other county's contract awards arrive through the State's Hawaiʻi Awards & Notices Data System (HANDS). Hawaiʻi County (Big Island) does not. We pulled the full statewide HANDS record live this run and confirmed the gap: not one award notice is filed under a County of Hawaiʻi jurisdiction. The Big Island side of the money map is missing — not because the contracts don't exist, but because the county publishes them on its own systems, neither of which exposes a machine-readable list of awards.

County of Hawaiʻi awards in HANDS

10,601

statewide HANDS notices pulled live

3 of 4

counties that DO file in HANDS

Re-verified this run by a live full pull of the HANDS API (POST hands.ehawaii.gov/hands/api/contract-awards): 10,601 award notices, every page fetched. Jurisdiction counts present include County of Maui (260, + 11 Office of Council Services), City & County of Honolulu (345, + 2 City Council), Honolulu Rapid Transit (12), Kauai County – Dept. of Water Supply (1) — and County of Hawaiʻi: 0. Of the 812 notices located on Hawaiʻi island, all are State bodies doing work on the Big Island (Executive 705 · Education 67 · Judiciary 21 · University of Hawaiʻi 19) — none are County procurement. This is a documented data gap, not an allegation against anyone.

The exact real sources to pursue

Where the Big Island's awarded contracts actually live, and why each is not yet machine-readable from here (each status re-checked this run):

Notice of Awards Hawaiʻi County Purchasing Division — Notice of Awards (RFP/IFB) status: WAF-blocked — returned HTTP 403 to automated requests this run
The canonical county source. Per the division, awards of $50,000 and more are posted here for a minimum of five working days, then rotate off — so there is no standing public archive to scrape.
https://www.hawaiicounty.gov/departments/finance/purchasing
https://www.hawaiicounty.gov/business/bids-proposals-contracts-info-status

eProcurement County of Hawaiʻi OpenGov Procurement Portal status: HTTP 200 but a JS single-page app — no open awards feed
The county is moving solicitations and vendor responses to OpenGov. The public portal returned a client-side-rendered shell this run (52 KB of HTML, no embedded awards data) and exposes no unauthenticated machine-readable list of awarded contracts; full visibility requires a (free) vendor account.
https://procurement.opengov.com/

Records request UIPA request to the Hawaiʻi County Department of Finance, Purchasing Division status: the reliable path — public-records request
Under Hawaiʻi’s Uniform Information Practices Act (HRS §92F), request a register of contracts/purchase orders awarded in a fiscal year (vendor, amount, department, solicitation no., date). This converts the rotating five-day postings into a durable, joinable ledger.
https://oip.hawaii.gov/ — UIPA Record Request Log

Why this page is honest and not empty. The integrity rule is that a missing source is named, never invented. We did not fabricate a single Big Island vendor, dollar, or award. The finding here is real and checkable: across 10,601 statewide HANDS notices pulled live this run, Hawaiʻi County files zero. The open question for the county: why is the Big Island the one county whose awarded contracts cannot be read beside who funds its officials? When the Notice-of-Awards postings are captured (or a UIPA register returns), this page fills with real vendors and real dollars — and joins the contracts×donors map like Maui and Honolulu already do.

Maui contract awards (HANDS, live) · Honolulu contract awards · ← all govOS jurisdictions