Office of Rail and Road Government Procurement Card Transactions Over £500

Government Procurement Card (GPC) figures from the Office of Rail and Road detail transactions in excess of £500. The dataset is published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and was last updated on 2026-05-01. The data likely contains records of purchases made using government-issued procurement cards.

Use Cases

• Analyzing public expenditure patterns based on high-value transaction records.
• Monitoring government procurement card usage for compliance and auditing purposes.
• Benchmarking spending within the transport sector against other government departments.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative Office of Rail and Road, a UK government body.
• Records are limited to transactions over £500, focusing on significant expenditures.
• Published under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Office of Rail and Road

Collection Method

Likely extracted from internal government procurement systems.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-01 10:58:07.368529; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely United Kingdom, given the source organization.