United Kingdom government contract notices for March 2017, published via the Contracts Finder platform. The data is formatted according to the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) as flattened CSV files, with one file per calendar day. The dataset is provided by the Crown Commercial Service.
Use Cases
- Analyze procurement activity by government departments using OCDS release fields for March 2017.
- Track daily contract notice publication patterns using the per-calendar-day file structure.
- Validate or map data transformations against the standardized OCDS flattened CSV format.
Strengths
- Data follows the structured Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) format.
- Provides a complete month of daily contract notice releases for March 2017.
- Sourced from the official UK government Crown Commercial Service.
Limitations
- Dataset scope is limited to a single month, preventing longitudinal trend analysis.
- Unknown row count and specific column schema limit immediate assessment of analytical depth.
- Data from 2017 may not reflect current procurement practices or regulations.
Provenance
- Source
- Crown Commercial Service via Contracts Finder platform.
- Collection Method
- Official government procurement notices published in Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) flattened CSV format.
- Time Range
- March 2017.
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- United Kingdom.