UK Government Tender Notices for May 2025

Find a Tender notices published by the UK government for May 2025. The Crown Commercial Service provides these notices in XML format, with schemas available from the official website. The dataset was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze procurement trends by extracting publication dates and notice types from XML metadata.
• Classify tender notices by sector using keywords from notice titles and descriptions.
• Monitor government spending activity by parsing contract value fields and buyer organization names.
• Build a search index for public contracts by processing the full text of each notice.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative UK government Find a Tender service.
• Covers a specific, defined one-month period (May 2025).

Limitations

• The dataset is limited to a single month, providing a narrow temporal snapshot.
• Data is provided in raw XML format, requiring parsing and extraction for analysis.
• Unknown total notice count and lack of column definitions limit immediate usability.

Provenance

Source

Crown Commercial Service via the UK Find a Tender service.

Collection Method

Official publication of procurement notices.

Time Range

May 2025

Freshness

Dataset metadata was updated in April 2026, but the core data is from May 2025.

Geography

United Kingdom