UK Government Contract Notices for January 2017

January 2017 notices from the UK's Contracts Finder platform, containing public procurement data. The dataset is structured using the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) flattened CSV format, with each file representing a calendar day's releases. The Crown Commercial Service is the publishing organization.

Use Cases

• Analyze daily release patterns of OCDS-formatted procurement notices for January 2017
• Study the structure and completeness of OCDS flattened CSV data for a specific month
• Extract key procurement fields like contract value and supplier from OCDS release data

Strengths

• Data follows the standardized Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) schema
• Notices are organized into daily files for temporal granularity
• Published by the authoritative Crown Commercial Service

Limitations

• Dataset size, row count, and specific columns are unknown
• Limited to a single month (January 2017), providing a narrow temporal snapshot
• Lacks metadata on data completeness or validation against the OCDS schema

Provenance

Source

Crown Commercial Service via Contracts Finder platform

Collection Method

Public procurement notices published in Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) flattened CSV format

Time Range

January 2017

Freshness

Last updated March 2026, but data covers January 2017.

Geography

United Kingdom