UK Government Contract Notices for December 2021

Contracts Finder notices for December 2021, published by the Crown Commercial Service. The data is formatted according to the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) and provided as daily flattened CSV files. Each file contains all OCDS releases for a specific calendar day.

Use Cases

• Analyze daily contract award patterns using the OCDS flattened CSV structure for December 2021.
• Track government procurement activity by examining the sequence of OCDS releases for each calendar day.
• Study the implementation of the Open Contracting Data Standard within UK public sector contract notices.

Strengths

• Data is structured according to the standardized Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) schema.
• Provides a complete month of daily contract notice releases from December 2021.
• Published by the authoritative Crown Commercial Service, the UK government's procurement body.

Limitations

• The dataset is limited to a single month (December 2021), offering a narrow temporal snapshot.
• Unknown row count and column structure make it difficult to assess the dataset's scale and features.
• The last update timestamp (2026-03-24) is significantly later than the data's coverage period, potentially indicating a stale or static archive.

Provenance

Source

Crown Commercial Service

Collection Method

Published notices from the UK government's Contracts Finder portal, formatted to the Open Contracting Data Standard.

Time Range

December 2021

Freshness

Static dataset covering a specific historical period; last metadata update was March 2026.

Geography

United Kingdom