spotlightonspend is an innovative online platform that seeks to deliver meaningful visibility of public sector spending on goods & services. To that end, significant effort is required to improve the raw financial data such that it is accessible, relevant and of value to the general public. The work to effect the data improvement is undertaken by Spikes Cavell – a private sector organization that transforms and analyzes spend and related data for more than 1,000 public sector bodies worldwide to help them save money, address important policy related questions and, as a bi-product of those efforts, facilitate the delivery of transparency.
The functionality on this and related pages enables the download of the transactions above $500 in value before any cleansing, enrichment, aggregation or other data improvement has been made by Spikes Cavell other than;
The copyright in the raw financial data is owned by Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council (the "Data Provider") who have elected to make the raw financial data freely-reusable by the general public.
Some users may experience a known Microsoft Excel bug when trying to 'Open' data files (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/213983) - the bug causes certain files not to be found). If you experience this problem, click the file and choose 'Save', rather than 'Open' and save a copy of the file to your desktop. You will then be able to open the file using Excel from your saved copy.
Any questions you may have with regards to the data provided in this download section, then please contact the data owner directly.
Reconciling $ values in the Raw Data Download file to the External Spend with suppliers included in spotlightonspend
The External Spend in spotlightonspend (see
Spend in Summary)
shows Total Payments to Suppliers of Goods & Services where aggregated period spend is greater than $1,000.
The Raw Data Download files list all payments over $500 made in the period shown.
The total value of payments in the Raw Data Download file will usually be greater than the External Spend in spotlightonspend because the Raw Data Download file additionally includes:
- Individual Payments to Suppliers over $500, but where the aggregate period spend with the supplier is less than $1,000.
- Redacted Payments
- Non-Trade items such as grants or payments to other Public Sector Bodies (where not classified as external trade/payments for goods & services).
For a fuller explanation of the process, please see the
About section.
To view additional spend summary stats, please go tothis page