Contracts Finder notices for March 2016, structured according to the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) flattened CSV format. The dataset is organized into daily files, each containing all OCDS releases for a given calendar day. It was published by the Crown Commercial Service.
Use Cases
- Analyze OCDS release patterns across calendar days in March 2016 to understand procurement activity cycles.
- Validate compliance with the Open Contracting Data Standard format across all flattened CSV files.
- Map the procurement notice pipeline by examining the sequence of daily aggregated OCDS releases.
Strengths
- Data adheres to the structured Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) flattened CSV format.
- Provides a complete month of procurement notices, offering a snapshot of March 2016 activity.
- Organized into daily files for granular temporal analysis of releases.
Limitations
- Unknown total record count and specific data fields due to missing column information.
- Limited temporal scope to a single month (March 2016), restricting longitudinal analysis.
- Potential for incomplete or missing data fields within the flattened CSV structure.
Provenance
- Source
- Crown Commercial Service via Contracts Finder
- Collection Method
- Aggregated Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) releases published daily.
- Time Range
- March 2016
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- United Kingdom