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The file opens with a UTF-8 byte-order mark\n(`\"title-titre-eng\",...`) before the header row.\n\nColumn headers are bilingual pairs in one row, e.g. `\"title-titre-eng\",\"title-titre-fra\",\n\"referenceNumber-numeroReference\",\"publicationDate-datePublication\",\"tenderClosingDate-appelOffresDateCloture\",\n\"tenderStatus-appelOffresStatut-eng\",\"tenderStatus-appelOffresStatut-fra\",...` — English and French\nvalues live in separate columns of the same row rather than separate files or a `lang` parameter,\nunlike every other procurement/legislation API in this lane which either negotiates language via\n`Accept-Language`/path suffix or publishes single-language documents.\n\nA client that trusts `Content-Type: application/octet-stream` to mean \"unknown binary, don't parse\"\nwould miss that this is plain structured CSV text; a client that trusts the `.csv` filename\nextension to imply `text/csv` would be technically wrong about the declared MIME type while still\nbeing practically right about the content.\n\nThere is no visible pagination, filtering, or format-negotiation surface at all for this dataset —\nno `limit`/`offset`/`Accept` parameters are documented or honoured; the entire current snapshot of\nopen tender notices is always the whole file. 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