UK Government Contract Notices for November 2021

November 2021 contract notices from the UK's Contracts Finder portal, formatted to the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS). The dataset is organized into daily CSV files, each containing all OCDS releases for a given calendar day. It was published by the Crown Commercial Service.

Use Cases

• Analyze daily procurement activity patterns using the OCDS release date field.
• Map the supply chain by examining OCDS fields related to buyer and supplier organizations.
• Track the lifecycle of government contracts through OCDS fields detailing tender, award, and contract stages.
• Benchmark procurement timelines by analyzing OCDS fields for tender and award dates.

Strengths

• Data adheres to the structured Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) schema.
• Provides a complete month of daily procurement snapshots for November 2021.
• Sourced from the official UK government Contracts Finder portal.

Limitations

• Limited to a single month (November 2021), offering a narrow temporal view.
• Specific column names, row counts, and data volume are not provided in the input.
• The flattened CSV format may require understanding of the OCDS schema for full analysis.

Provenance

Source

Crown Commercial Service via the UK Contracts Finder portal.

Collection Method

Official government procurement notices published in Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) format.

Time Range

November 2021.

Freshness

Dataset metadata was last updated in March 2026, but the underlying data covers November 2021.

Geography

United Kingdom.