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Proposed code: GB-URN (government customer Unique Reference Number) #13

Open timgdavies opened 7 years ago

timgdavies commented 7 years ago

Suggest a list

List name

Unique Reference Number - for government procurement customers

See: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/current-crown-commercial-service-suppliers-what-you-need-to-know#submitting-monthly-management-information

Which country/countries does this list cover?

UK (need to confirm if England and Wales only)

Which types of organisation does this list cover?

Government buyers

Where can this list be found?

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/current-crown-commercial-service-suppliers-what-you-need-to-know#submitting-monthly-management-information

Who is responsible for maintaining this list?

tbc

siwhitehouse commented 5 years ago

I've downloaded the current (December 2018) customer URN list.

I can see that there are customers on there from Scotland and Northern Ireland, as well as the Channel islands and British Forces overseas (BFP).

The types of organisation are primarily government buyers, but also include Not for profits (churches are in this category, for instance).

It looks as though the Crown Commercial Service are responsible for maintaining the list, as there is text at the link given by Tim that says:

"Customer URNs can be accessed through MISO to identify the URN for your customer organisations. If they are a new customer and not present on the list, you can submit a request to CCS to have them added to the system."

Access to MISO is provided through a login, but I was able to directly download an xlsx file from the page which has a complete, I assume, list of the customers. In total it has just over 50,000 rows.

The list contains just 10 data points:

URN | Organisation Name | Address Line 1 | Address Line 2 | Address Line 3 | County | Country | Post Code | Sector | Organisation Type

URNs are eight digits in length, start with a '1' and may be incremental, running from '10000006' to '10583216'. As such, they appear to URNs used solely within the context of them being customers of the Crown Commercial Service.

siwhitehouse commented 5 years ago

Pulling together the two comments above:

The name of the list, or the organization that manages the list

Unique Reference Number - for government procurement customers

See: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/current-crown-commercial-service-suppliers-what-you-need-to-know#submitting-monthly-management-information

A suggested code for the list [optional]

GB-CCSCUST

A short description of the list

Customers who use the Crown Commercial Service to purchase goods and services from approved suppliers on framework agreements.

The country or countries that the list covers

United Kingdom. There are also customers listed from the Channel Islands and in the locations of British forces Overseas.

The legal form or organizations that the list covers

Primarily government buyers, but also include Not for profits (churches are in this category, for instance)

Any specific sectors that the list covers Local Government, Education, Police, Health, Devolved Administrations, Wider Public Sector, Private, Central Government, Fire and Rescue, Utility Historic

A URL for information on the list, and a URL for looking up identifiers [if available] Information Download

Any information on available open data copies of this list There is no reference to licensing within the downloaded file. The page that links to it has the OGL "All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated" in the footer, next to a © Crown Copyright image.

One or more examples of identifier from this list, and how you found them

10051292 10051291 10051290 10051289 10051288

I downloaded the list and uploaded the file to Google Drive.

This is either a secondary or third-party list

siwhitehouse commented 5 years ago

Pull request created for this list https://github.com/org-id/register/pull/302

rorads commented 5 years ago

@siwhitehouse I've merged the related PR - can this issue be closed now?

siwhitehouse commented 5 years ago

@rory09 I'm getting a 404 error when I try and navigate to http://org-id.guide/list/GB-CCSCUST

This seems to be the case for most of the PRs that I have been involved with since I started.

matmaxgeds commented 5 years ago

Is this the same as this list: http://org-id.guide/list/GB-SRS i.e. can this be closed?

siwhitehouse commented 5 years ago

Thanks for questioning this @matmaxgeds . My understanding is that this issue is for the list of government customers, whereas the one you link to is for suppliers.