UK Government Tender Notices for February 2021

February 2021 notices from the UK's Find a Tender service. The dataset contains daily XML files of published procurement opportunities. It is provided by the Crown Commercial Service.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal patterns in tender publication dates and notice types.
• Extract contracting authority names and procurement values for market analysis.
• Process notice titles and descriptions for text classification of procurement categories.
• Identify geographic locations of contracting authorities from notice text.

Strengths

• Covers a full month of national procurement activity.
• Provides structured XML data with available schemas for parsing.

Limitations

• Limited to a single month, restricting longitudinal analysis.
• Unknown row count and sample size.
• Data is from 2021 and may not reflect current procurement rules.

Provenance

Source

Crown Commercial Service via the Find a Tender service.

Collection Method

Official publication of procurement notices.

Time Range

February 2021

Freshness

Data is from February 2021; metadata was last updated in April 2026.

Geography

United Kingdom