February 2018 data from the UK's Contracts Finder portal, containing public procurement notices. The dataset is structured using the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) flattened CSV format, with each file aggregating all OCDS releases for a single calendar day. It was published by the Crown Commercial Service.
Use Cases
- Analyze procurement activity patterns across calendar days using the daily aggregated file structure.
- Extract and standardize contracting entity information from OCDS-formatted release data.
- Benchmark public sector procurement timelines and processes for February 2018.
- Map the flow of contract notices from publication to award using the OCDS release framework.
Strengths
- Data follows the standardized Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) schema.
- Provides daily granularity with each file containing all releases for a calendar day.
- Sourced from the authoritative UK government Contracts Finder portal.
- Published by the Crown Commercial Service, a central government body.
Limitations
- Limited to a single month (February 2018), offering narrow temporal coverage.
- Unknown data volume (row count) and feature set (column count) limits assessment of analytical scope.
- Data format (flattened CSV) may complicate analysis of nested OCDS structures without preprocessing.
Provenance
- Source
- Crown Commercial Service via UK Contracts Finder portal.
- Collection Method
- Aggregated public procurement notices published in the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) format.
- Time Range
- February 2018.
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- United Kingdom.