UK Government Tender Notices for February 2024

February 2024 records of all public procurement opportunities published through the UK's Find a Tender service. The dataset consists of daily XML files containing the full notice text for each tender published that month. It was published by the Crown Commercial Service and last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Classify notice types (e.g., contract award, prior information) using XML tags and text content.
• Extract key entities like contracting authority names, contract values, and submission deadlines from notice text.
• Analyze temporal patterns in tender publication volume and frequency across the days of February 2024.
• Identify common procurement categories or CPV codes by parsing structured fields within the XML notices.

Strengths

• Provides complete coverage of all UK public tender notices for the entire month of February 2024.
• Data is structured in XML, offering a consistent schema for parsing notice fields and metadata.

Limitations

• Dataset scope is limited to a single month, restricting longitudinal trend analysis.
• Lacks documented column or feature definitions, requiring schema inspection for analysis.

Provenance

Source

Crown Commercial Service via the UK Find a Tender service.

Collection Method

Official daily publication of procurement notices in XML format.

Time Range

February 2024

Freshness

Data from February 2024, with metadata last updated in April 2026.

Geography

United Kingdom