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IMMUTABLE DATA RELEASE · observed-closed-period

2026-08-04

A closed-day, source-linked aggregate of retained Find a Tender and Contracts Finder OCDS releases. It describes covered records, not the whole UK market.

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MEASURED VARIABLES · NULL REMAINS NULL

The closed day in 13 disclosed measures.

OCDS release records641

Distinct retained OCDS release identities published during the closed day.

Notice identities612

Unique OCIDs where supplied; otherwise the immutable source release identity.

Opportunity-bearing identities166

Notice identities with at least one planning or tender stage. Lifecycle counts can overlap.

Award-bearing identities443

Notice identities with at least one award stage. Lifecycle counts can overlap.

Named buyers330

Distinct non-empty buyer names in the retained structured records.

Structured tender GBP value£5.09bn

Sum of the latest positive tender value explicitly labelled GBP per notice identity; missing values are not inferred.

Structured award GBP value£146.99m

Sum of the latest retained positive GBP award values per notice identity; missing and non-GBP award values are not inferred.

Median disclosed tender GBP value£338.46k

Median among notice identities with a positive structured GBP tender value.

Tender value field coverage37.3%

Share of notice identities with a positive structured GBP tender value.

Award value field coverage26.8%

Share of notice identities with at least one positive structured GBP award value.

Buyer field coverage98.7%

Share of notice identities with a non-empty structured buyer name.

Deadline field coverage34.2%

Share of notice identities with a readable structured deadline value.

Unclassified CPV identities285

Notice identities without a mapped two-digit CPV division; they remain visible and are never forced into another analytical sector.

ANALYTICAL SECTOR DISTRIBUTION · HTML TABLE AND SCRIPT-FREE SVG SHARE THE SAME ROWS

Classification never becomes camouflage.

An unmapped or absent two-digit CPV division remains unclassified. It is not pushed into the nearest-looking analytical sector by title language.

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Covered notice identities by analytical sector on 2026-08-04
Analytical sectorNoticesOpportunitiesAwardsTender value coverage
Unclassified CPV division285172645.3%
Healthcare85364937.6%
Construction68383179.4%
Information technology52143878.8%
Professional services41231882.9%
Transport & logistics39112861.5%
Education116563.6%
Facilities & support95466.7%
Environment85362.5%
Infrastructure & utilities54160%
Defence, safety & public administration32133.3%
Energy321100%
Print, media & culture330100%

DOWNLOAD, VERIFY, CITE

The release travels with its own receipt.

01 · application/json

Summary JSON

/datasets/uk-public-procurement/releases/2026-08-04/summary.jsonDownload ↓02 · text/csv

Metrics CSV

/datasets/uk-public-procurement/releases/2026-08-04/metrics.csvDownload ↓03 · text/csv

Sector CSV

/datasets/uk-public-procurement/releases/2026-08-04/sectors.csvDownload ↓04 · image/svg+xml

Accessible chart SVG

/datasets/uk-public-procurement/releases/2026-08-04/chart.svgDownload ↓05 · application/json

SHA-256 manifest

/datasets/uk-public-procurement/releases/2026-08-04/manifest.jsonDownload ↓
SUGGESTED CITATION

Achmed Esser (2026), Covered UK public procurement release — 2026-08-04, https://achmedesser.com/data/uk-public-procurement/releases/2026-08-04/

METHOD IN THIS RELEASE

Four rules before interpretation.

currency
Tender and award values remain separate. Only positive structured amounts explicitly labelled GBP are included; no conversion or missing-value inference is performed. Each source amount is normalised to the nearest penny with decimal half-up arithmetic before aggregation, and every displayed sector partition must reconcile to the headline. Multiple awards in the latest retained award-bearing release are summed once per notice identity.
deduplication
OCDS releases remain countable as releases. Notice-level measures group them by OCID where supplied and never add the same lifecycle value repeatedly.
lifecycle
Planning/tender and award are independent flags over the same notice identity, so lifecycle measures may overlap.
quality gate
Both official source runs must complete, exhaust cursor pagination and cover the entire closed day before the release is frozen.
  • This is covered official-source activity, not a census of every UK procurement route.
  • Publication timestamps describe notices and releases, not the date work begins or money is spent.
  • Tender and award values are separate measures and can describe different commercial concepts or lifecycle moments.
  • The displayed sectors are analytical groupings derived from two-digit CPV divisions; they do not replace the source classification.
  • A notice can carry several CPV codes; the first retained structured code supplies the mapped analytical sector while the full code list remains in the private typed record.
  • No supplier-contact or personal-contact fields are published.

LICENCE AND CORRECTIONS

Reuse the information.
Keep its boundary.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The licence excludes personal data, logos, crests, third-party rights and material the information provider is not authorised to license.

A discovered defect is named in the corrections register. This immutable bundle is never silently rewritten; a material defect is removed from current pointers through a controlled release.

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