UK Government Contract Notices for April 2022

April 2022 contract notices from the UK government's Contracts Finder platform, published in the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) flattened CSV format. The dataset contains all OCDS releases for each calendar day within the month. It was published by the Crown Commercial Service.

Use Cases

• Analyze procurement activity patterns using OCDS release dates and notice types.
• Map the structure of government contracting data by examining the flattened OCDS CSV fields.
• Track public sector spending for April 2022 by extracting financial values from OCDS-compliant records.

Strengths

• Data conforms to the structured Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) format.
• Provides complete daily coverage for all of April 2022.
• Published by the authoritative Crown Commercial Service, a UK government body.

Limitations

• The dataset is limited to a single month (April 2022), offering a narrow temporal snapshot.
• Specific data volume (row count) and schema details (columns) are not provided.
• Data may be stale for analyzing current procurement trends, as it covers a specific past period.

Provenance

Source

Crown Commercial Service via the UK Contracts Finder platform.

Collection Method

Official government procurement notices published in the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) format.

Time Range

April 2022

Freshness

Dataset metadata was last updated in March 2026, but the underlying data is from April 2022.

Geography

United Kingdom