UK Government Tender Notices for March 2026

March 2026 notices from the UK's Find a Tender service. The dataset contains official public procurement announcements published daily in XML format. It is provided by the Crown Commercial Service and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Classify tender notices by procurement category using text from the notice title and description fields.
• Analyze temporal patterns in tender publication using the notice publication date field.
• Extract key entities like contracting authorities and estimated contract values from structured XML fields.
• Model the geographic distribution of opportunities using location data within the notice content.

Strengths

• Covers a complete month of national procurement activity (March 2026).
• Data is provided in a structured XML format with available schemas.
• Published by the authoritative Crown Commercial Service.

Limitations

• The dataset is limited to a single month, offering no longitudinal context.
• Specific data volume metrics like row count and file size are unknown.
• Data is exclusively from the UK, limiting international applicability.

Provenance

Source

Crown Commercial Service via the UK Find a Tender service.

Collection Method

Official daily publication of public procurement notices.

Time Range

March 2026

Freshness

Data is recent, with notices from March 2026 and a platform update in April 2026.

Geography

United Kingdom