UK Government Contract Notices For October 2016

October 2016 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 in the month, aggregated by the Crown Commercial Service.

Use Cases

• Analyze daily procurement activity patterns using OCDS release timestamps for October 2016
• Map standard contracting process stages and statuses documented in the OCDS flattened CSV format
• Identify contracting authority types and supplier categories from OCDS-structured notice data

Strengths

• Data follows the standardized Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) schema
• Provides complete daily coverage for all of October 2016
• Published by the authoritative Crown Commercial Service

Limitations

• Limited temporal scope to a single month (October 2016)
• Unknown row count and specific column schema details
• Data format is a flattened CSV which may require restructuring for analysis

Provenance

Source

Crown Commercial Service via the UK Contracts Finder platform

Collection Method

Official government procurement notices published in the Open Contracting Data Standard format

Time Range

October 2016

Freshness

Dataset metadata was last updated in March 2026, but the underlying data covers October 2016.

Geography

United Kingdom