UK Government Tender Notices for December 2021

Public procurement notices were published by the UK government's Find a Tender service for December 2021. The Crown Commercial Service is the source organization. Each notice is provided in XML format.

Use Cases

• Analyze procurement trends by extracting contract values and publication dates from XML notice fields.
• Classify notice types (e.g., contract award, prior information) using text from the XML title or description tags.
• Extract contracting authority names and supplier details for market analysis of public sector vendors.
• Monitor sectoral spending by parsing CPV (Common Procurement Vocabulary) codes from notice metadata.
• Train models for information retrieval on tender documents using the structured XML text content.

Strengths

• Notices are sourced from the official UK government Find a Tender service.
• Data is provided in a structured XML format with available schemas.
• Covers a complete month of national procurement activity.

Limitations

• Dataset is limited to a single month (December 2021), offering no longitudinal view.
• No information on the total number of notices or file sizes is provided.
• Data is over two years old as of the last platform update in 2026.

Provenance

Source

Crown Commercial Service via the UK Find a Tender service.

Collection Method

Official publication of procurement notices as required by UK regulations.

Time Range

December 2021

Freshness

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Geography

United Kingdom