August 2017 contains Contracts Finder notices for government procurement in the United Kingdom. The data is structured using the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) flattened CSV format, with each file containing all releases for a single calendar day. The dataset is provided by the Crown Commercial Service.
Use Cases
- Analyze daily procurement activity patterns from the calendar day file structure.
- Map contract award processes using the standardized OCDS release format.
- Extract key contracting entities and dates from OCDS flattened fields for supplier analysis.
Strengths
- Data adheres to the standardized Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) schema.
- Provides a complete month of daily procurement activity for August 2017.
- Published by the authoritative Crown Commercial Service organization.
Limitations
- The dataset is limited to a single month (August 2017), offering a narrow temporal snapshot.
- Specific data volume metrics like row count and column count are unknown.
- The flattened CSV format may require parsing to reconstruct full OCDS JSON structures.
Provenance
- Source
- Crown Commercial Service
- Collection Method
- Contains official Contracts Finder notices published for government procurement.
- Time Range
- August 2017
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- United Kingdom