UK Government Procurement Contracts for January 2022

Contracts Finder Notices 01 2022 contains public procurement notices from the UK government's official Contracts Finder portal for January 2022. The data is structured according to the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) and is provided as daily flattened CSV files. This standardized format facilitates analysis of government spending and supplier activity for that month.

Use Cases

• Analyzing procurement timelines and award processes based on OCDS release data.
• Tracking supplier participation and contract awards for a specific calendar month.
• Benchmarking government spending categories and values using standardized OCDS fields.
• Monitoring compliance with open contracting principles for January 2022.

Strengths

• Uses the standardized Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) schema, enabling cross-platform comparison.
• Published by the authoritative Crown Commercial Service, the central UK government procurement body.
• Data is structured as daily files, providing a clear temporal granularity for the covered month.

Limitations

• Column names and specific data fields are not listed in any source, limiting detailed understanding of the schema.
• Key metadata such as row count, file size, and license are consistently reported as unknown or null across all platforms.
• There is a conflict in reported freshness, with one platform showing a 2026 update date, which is likely an error, while another shows 2023.

Provenance

Source

Crown Commercial Service (UK government)

Collection Method

Official public procurement notices published via the Contracts Finder portal, exported in OCDS format.

Time Range

January 2022

Freshness

Last updated dates conflict: one source reports 2026-04-30 (likely erroneous), another reports 2023-05 22.

Geography

United Kingdom