United Kingdom: OpenTender
The OpenTender platform – run by the Government Transparency Institute – collects, transforms and publishes contracting data from 35 jurisdictions: 27 European Union (EU) member states, EU Institutions, Georgia, Iceland, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, and the UK. The data come from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) and from national procurement portals.
The data from TED covers contracts whose monetary values exceed the thresholds set by EU directives. The thresholds are adjusted for inflation every 2 years. This data is supplemented by data from the national procurement portal (Contracts Finder), to cover contracts whose monetary values are below those thresholds.
- Available formats:
- JSON
- Excel
- CSV
Overview
- Data date range:
- Jan 2006 - Sep 2022
- Update frequency:
- Every 6 months
- Main language:
- English
- OCID prefix:
- ocds-70d2nz
- License:
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
You are free to:
- Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
- Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.
Under the following terms:
- Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
- ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
- No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
- Publication policy:
- -
- Last retrieved:
- Oct 2024 (retrieved every 6 months)
- Retrieved from:
- https://opentender.eu/uk
Data available
Parties
- Count of parties:
- 891,773
Planning
- Count of planning activities:
- 0
Tenders
- Count of tenders:
- 499,419
- Count of tenderers:
- 0
- Count of tender items:
- 1,162,180
Awards
- Count of awards:
- 395,230
- Count of suppliers:
- 392,359
- Count of award items:
- 74,835
Contracts
- Count of contracts:
- 0
- Count of contract items:
- 0
- Count of transactions:
- 0
Documents
- Count of documents:
- 692,012
Milestones
- Count of milestones:
- 0
Amendments
- Count of amendments:
- 0
The dataset also includes other relevant information through some OCDS recommended extensions, such as lots, bids, and requirements.
Data quality
We have not yet prepared a data quality summary for this dataset.
Access data
This OCDS dataset is available for download in JSON, Excel or CSV format. You can download the data for contracting processes in a specific year or for all time.
JSON
Each contracting process is represented as one line of JSON text in the .jsonl file.
The .jsonl file is compressed using Gzip. Windows users need 7-Zip, WinRAR or WinZip to decompress the .gz file.
Excel
Each contracting process is represented as one row in the main sheet. Other sheets link to it via the _link_main column.
Excel files can have at most 1,048,576 rows. If a year is missing, it had too many rows. Download the CSV files, instead.