Public Procurement

Are UK contracting authorities publishing contract award information?

Pedro Telles

The answer is: not all and not all of the time irrespective of the clear legal commands to do so. OpenOpps looked into the practice for contracts published on ContractsFinder and this is what they found out:

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As I suspected, local Government is a lot worse:

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As the data analysis was done only on ContractsFinder it is possible that for contracts above the EU thresholds contracting authorities are complying with the requirement to publish the results instead on the Tenders Electronic Daily.

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