UK government procurement notices from September 2017, structured using the Open Contracting Data Standard flattened CSV format. Each file aggregates all OCDS releases for a single calendar day. The dataset is provided by the Crown Commercial Service.
Use Cases
- Analyze procurement activity patterns across calendar days using OCDS release data
- Study government contract award processes and timelines within the OCDS framework
- Extract standardized contracting data for September 2017 to benchmark public sector spending
Strengths
- Data conforms to the standardized Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) format
- Provides a complete month of daily aggregated procurement releases for September 2017
Limitations
- Specific data volume metrics like row count and column details are unavailable
- The dataset covers only a single month, limiting longitudinal analysis
Provenance
- Source
- Crown Commercial Service
- Collection Method
- Aggregated OCDS releases from the Contracts Finder platform, flattened into CSV format per calendar day
- Time Range
- September 2017
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- United Kingdom