Contracts Finder notices for January 2016 are stored in the Open Contracting Data Standard flattened CSV format. The dataset is organized with each file containing all OCDS releases for a single calendar day. It was published by the Crown Commercial Service.
Use Cases
- Analyze daily procurement activity patterns from OCDS release files
- Extract contracting authority and supplier details from OCDS flattened fields
- Study notice types and award values within the standardized OCDS structure
- Map the procurement lifecycle stages documented in daily release records
Strengths
- Data follows the standardized Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) schema
- Records are organized into daily files for temporal analysis
- Published by the authoritative Crown Commercial Service
Limitations
- Dataset is limited to a single month (January 2016) of coverage
- Specific column names, row counts, and data volume are unknown
- Data may be stale as it represents a historical snapshot from 2016
Provenance
- Source
- Crown Commercial Service
- Collection Method
- Flattened CSV exports from the Contracts Finder system using the Open Contracting Data Standard
- Time Range
- January 2016
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- United Kingdom