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(French) Registre géolocalisé des adresses postales (latitude et de longitude, ou coordonnées similaires dans un système des publication ouverte de coordonnées). Les données doivent être disponibles pour tous le pays.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licenced | Yes | |
| In an open and machine-readable format | CSV, HTML, JSON | Daily snapshots are available in CSV. Contracts Finder notices are HTML with attachments and there is a JSON API. Some spreadsheets attached to notices on Contracts Finder are published in PDF format i.e. the data is not in a re-usable format. |
| Downloadable at once | No | The daily snapshots only cover notices added on a specific day. There is no source of bulk data covering all notices in the current Contracts Finder. |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| findable | 3 | |
| findable_steps | I was previously aware of all of this material so did not need to search for it. | Contracts Finder is the first Google result return based on a search for "uk government contracts", so should be relatively easy for most people to find. |
| licence_url | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government- | The Open Government Licence applies to the available data. |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 2 | |
| collector_name | Crown Commercial Service | |
| characteristics | Tenders per government office, Awards per government office, Tender name, Tender description, Tender status, Award title, Award description, Value of the award, Supplier's name | It is important to note that many Government departments and agencies do not (yet) participate in Contracts Finder to a meaningful extent, so it is not a cross-government body of procurement data. CCS publishes statistics on Contracts Finder use by publishers: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Summary |
| location | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/ - Contracts Finder, https://data.gov.uk/publisher/crown-commercial-service - Contracts Finder Daily Snapshots, https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive/ - Contracts Finder Archive (2011-15) | Contracts Finder is an open public procurement platform administered by CCS. A daily file of notices is published as open data on Data.gov.uk. Data.gov.uk also holds a static open data archive of notices from an earlier version of Contracts Finder that was live from Feb 2011 through Feb 2015. |
No changes made to the submission. Data is offered in OCDS.