Contains Contracts Finder notices for May 2023, formatted using the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) flattened CSV. 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 procurement activity and contract award timelines using OCDS release dates and notice types
- Map the structure of UK government contracting data by examining the flattened OCDS CSV format fields
- Track daily publication patterns of contract notices across the month of May 2023
Strengths
- Data adheres to the standardized Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) schema
- Provides a complete month of daily contract notice releases for May 2023
- Published by the authoritative Crown Commercial Service organization
Limitations
- Unknown row count and dataset size limit assessment of scale
- Lacks column definitions, complicating direct analysis without schema reference
- Contains only one month of data, limiting longitudinal trend analysis
Provenance
- Source
- Crown Commercial Service via the UK Contracts Finder platform
- Collection Method
- Flattened CSV exports of OCDS-compliant contract notice releases
- Time Range
- May 2023
- Freshness
- Data covers May 2023; metadata was last updated in March 2026.
- Geography
- United Kingdom