UK Government Tender Notices for August 2024

August 2024 notices from the UK's Find a Tender service. The dataset contains official public procurement announcements published daily, provided by the Crown Commercial Service. Data was last updated on the platform in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze procurement trends by extracting contract values, publication dates, and buyer organizations from XML notice fields.
• Classify tender notices by CPV codes or procurement categories using text from the title and description fields.
• Identify bidding opportunities for specific sectors by filtering on keywords in the notice text or buyer entity names.
• Monitor government spending by aggregating estimated contract values and award dates from published notices.

Strengths

• Data covers a full month of official UK government procurement activity for August 2024.
• Notices are structured in XML with defined schemas available from the source website.

Limitations

• Dataset is limited to a single month, providing no longitudinal view of procurement trends.
• Sample size and row count are unknown, limiting assessment of statistical representativeness.
• Data is provided only in XML format, requiring parsing for analysis.

Provenance

Source

Crown Commercial Service via the UK Find a Tender service.

Collection Method

Official daily publication of public procurement notices.

Time Range

August 2024

Freshness

Data reflects notices from August 2024; metadata was last updated in April 2026.

Geography

United Kingdom