UK Government Tender Notices for January 2021

January 2021 notices published via the UK's Find a Tender service, detailing public procurement opportunities. The dataset is provided by the Crown Commercial Service and consists of daily XML files. It was last updated on the platform in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze procurement trends by extracting contract values, award dates, and contracting authorities from XML notice fields.
• Classify tender notices by sector or procurement type using text from titles and descriptions.
• Model temporal patterns in government spending by parsing publication dates and deadlines.
• Identify frequent suppliers or buyer organizations from entity names within the notice data.

Strengths

• Covers a full month of national procurement activity with daily granularity.
• Data is structured according to official XML schemas from the Find a Tender service.

Limitations

• Dataset scope is limited to a single month, restricting longitudinal analysis.
• Specific data volume metrics like row count and file size are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Crown Commercial Service via the UK's Find a Tender service.

Collection Method

Official publication of procurement notices as required by law.

Time Range

January 2021

Freshness

Data reflects January 2021 activity, though metadata was updated in 2026.

Geography

United Kingdom