UK Government Tender Notices for May 2024

UK Public Procurement Notices for May 2024 contain Find a Tender notices published daily in XML format. The dataset is provided by the Crown Commercial Service. Notices were last updated on the platform in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal patterns in procurement activity using the daily publication dates of notices.
• Extract contract values and procurement categories from XML notice text to model government spending.
• Identify common suppliers and contracting authorities from entity names within the notice data.
• Classify notice types (e.g., contract award, prior information) using structured fields in the XML schema.

Strengths

• Covers a full month of national procurement activity (May 2024).
• Data is structured according to official XML schemas from Find a Tender.

Limitations

• Dataset scope is limited to a single month, preventing longitudinal trend analysis.
• Specific data volume (row count) and internal structure (columns) are unknown.
• Raw data is in XML format, requiring parsing and extraction for analysis.

Provenance

Source

Crown Commercial Service via the Find a Tender service.

Collection Method

Official publication of procurement notices as required by UK regulation.

Time Range

May 2024

Freshness

Platform record updated April 2026; underlying data covers May 2024.

Geography

United Kingdom