UK Government Tender Notices for May 2022

Find a Tender notices published by UK government bodies for the month of May 2022. The dataset is provided by the Crown Commercial Service and was last updated on the platform in April 2026. Data is stored in daily XML files within compressed archives.

Use Cases

• Extract contracting authorities and bid deadlines from XML notice fields to analyze procurement timelines.
• Classify notice types (e.g., contract award, prior information) using XML tags for market trend analysis.
• Identify common procurement categories and CPV codes from notice content to map government spending priorities.
• Parse monetary values and contract durations from notice text to model public expenditure forecasts.

Strengths

• Covers a full month of national procurement activity, providing a complete temporal snapshot.
• Data is structured according to the official Find a Tender XML schema, ensuring a consistent format.

Limitations

• Sample size and specific row count are unknown, limiting assessment of statistical representativeness.
• Data is from a single month in 2022, which may be temporally stale for current market analysis.
• Lack of column details prevents evaluation of feature completeness or data richness.

Provenance

Source

Crown Commercial Service via the UK Find a Tender service.

Collection Method

Official publication of legally required procurement notices.

Time Range

May 2022

Freshness

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Geography

United Kingdom