UK Government Tender Notices for November 2021

Find a Tender notices published daily throughout November 2021 by the UK Crown Commercial Service. Each file contains the official procurement announcements for a specific date in XML format. The dataset was last updated on the platform in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Classify notice types (e.g., contract award, prior information) using XML tags and textual content.
• Extract key entities like contracting authority names, contract values, and procurement categories from notice text.
• Analyze temporal patterns in tender publication volume and frequency across the month of November 2021.
• Train text summarization models on the structured XML content of official procurement announcements.

Strengths

• Provides complete daily coverage for the entire month of November 2021.
• Data is sourced from the official UK government Find a Tender service, ensuring authoritative content.

Limitations

• Dataset is limited to a single month (November 2021), offering a narrow temporal snapshot.
• The raw XML format requires parsing and may not be immediately usable for analysis without preprocessing.
• Sample data and specific record counts (rows) are unavailable, making volume assessment difficult.

Provenance

Source

Crown Commercial Service via the UK Find a Tender service.

Collection Method

Official daily publication of procurement notices.

Time Range

November 2021.

Freshness

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Geography

United Kingdom.