UK Government Contract Notices for March 2018

Crown Commercial Service provides Contracts Finder notices for March 2018 in Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) flattened CSV format. Each file aggregates all OCDS releases for a single calendar day.

Use Cases

• Analyze daily contract release patterns using the OCDS flattened CSV format for March 2018
• Process structured OCDS release data to track government procurement activity
• Extract contracting metadata from daily aggregated CSV files

Strengths

• Data follows the standardized Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) schema
• Provides a complete month of daily aggregated contract releases for March 2018
• Published by the authoritative Crown Commercial Service

Limitations

• Dataset scope is limited to a single month (March 2018)
• Unknown row count and specific column schema for analysis
• Lacks sample data to verify structure and content before use

Provenance

Source

Crown Commercial Service

Collection Method

Aggregated daily releases from the UK Contracts Finder platform, formatted to OCDS flattened CSV.

Time Range

March 2018

Freshness

Data covers March 2018, with a platform update recorded in March 2026.

Geography

United Kingdom