UK Government Tender Notices for September 2024

September 2024 contains all Find a Tender notices published for that month. The Crown Commercial Service provides this data in XML format, with schemas available from the official website. 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 text content.
• Extract key entities like contracting authorities, contract values, and submission deadlines from notice text.
• Analyze temporal patterns in tender publication volume and frequency for the month.
• Train text models to identify procurement categories or keywords from the structured XML notices.

Strengths

• Data is sourced directly from the UK government's official Find a Tender service.
• Covers a complete, discrete month (September 2024) of national procurement activity.
• Provides structured XML data with available schemas for parsing consistency.

Limitations

• Sample size is limited to a single month, restricting longitudinal analysis.
• The dataset's utility is reduced by unknown row counts and lack of column metadata.
• Data is temporally stale for real-time analysis, representing activity from over a year prior.

Provenance

Source

Crown Commercial Service via the UK Find a Tender service.

Collection Method

Official publication of procurement notices in XML format.

Time Range

September 2024

Freshness

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Geography

United Kingdom