Contracts Finder notices for October 2017, published by the Crown Commercial Service. The data uses the Open Contracting Data Standard flattened CSV format, with each file containing all OCDS releases for a single calendar day.
Use Cases
- Analyze OCDS release patterns across calendar days to understand procurement activity cycles.
- Study the structure and completeness of OCDS-formatted contract notices for a specific month.
- Extract key contracting entities and dates from the flattened CSV structure for supply chain mapping.
Strengths
- Data conforms to the structured Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) format.
- Provides a complete month of daily contract notice releases for October 2017.
- Published by the authoritative Crown Commercial Service, the UK government's procurement body.
Limitations
- Data is limited to a single month (October 2017), offering a narrow temporal snapshot.
- Specific details like row count, column names, and data volume are unknown.
- The dataset's age means it does not reflect current procurement practices or market conditions.
Provenance
- Source
- Crown Commercial Service
- Collection Method
- Published via the UK government's Contracts Finder portal, using the Open Contracting Data Standard.
- Time Range
- October 2017
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- United Kingdom