UK Government Contract Notices for April 2017

Contracts Finder notices for April 2017, structured in the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) flattened CSV format. The dataset contains daily files, each aggregating all OCDS releases for a single calendar day. It was published by the Crown Commercial Service.

Use Cases

• Analyze daily contract release patterns across the month of April 2017 using the OCDS flattened CSV structure.
• Map the flow of public procurement notices by processing the daily aggregated OCDS release files.
• Study the implementation of the Open Contracting Data Standard in UK government procurement for a specific month.

Strengths

• Data follows the structured Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) format.
• Provides a complete month of daily contract notice releases from April 2017.
• Published by the authoritative Crown Commercial Service, the UK government's procurement body.

Limitations

• Limited temporal scope to a single month (April 2017), offering no longitudinal view.
• Unknown data volume, row count, and specific column schema.
• Data may be stale for analyzing current procurement trends.

Provenance

Source

Crown Commercial Service

Collection Method

Aggregated daily releases from the UK's Contracts Finder platform, formatted to OCDS.

Time Range

April 2017

Freshness

Last updated March 2026, but the underlying data covers April 2017.

Geography

United Kingdom