Contracts Finder Notices 09 2021 contains public procurement notices published by the UK Crown Commercial Service for September 2021. The data is structured using the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) flattened CSV format, with daily files containing all releases.
Use Cases
- Analyze procurement activity patterns using OCDS release dates and notice types for September 2021
- Track government spending by extracting contracting authority and award value fields from OCDS-formatted notices
- Monitor supplier participation by examining bidder and awardee identifiers within the flattened CSV structure
Strengths
- Data adheres to the standardized Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) schema for consistency
- Provides a complete month of UK government procurement notices from September 2021
- Published by the authoritative Crown Commercial Service, the UK's central procurement body
Limitations
- Dataset scope is limited to a single month (September 2021), offering no longitudinal view
- Specific data volume, row count, and column details are unknown from the input
- Data format is flattened CSV, which may require parsing to reconstruct full OCDS JSON relationships
Provenance
- Source
- Crown Commercial Service
- Collection Method
- Aggregated daily releases from the UK's Contracts Finder platform, formatted to OCDS standards.
- Time Range
- September 2021
- Freshness
- Data covers September 2021; metadata was last updated in March 2026.
- Geography
- United Kingdom