UK Public Tenders Tracker

I built this because UK tenders are split across two government services, and keeping an eye on both by hand is tedious. Since Brexit, UK notices no longer appear on TED, so if you already follow EU tenders you need a separate UK feed.

This actor reads the official open data feeds behind Contracts Finder (lower-value contracts in England, plus the wider public sector) and Find a Tender (higher-value UK contracts). It returns one clean row per notice, and you can filter them by keyword, CPV code, value, region and deadline.

What you get

For each tender:

• title, a short summary, and the full description
• buyer name, town, region and postcode (organisation details only, no personal contact names or emails)
• CPV codes, category and procurement method
• estimated value and currency
• submission deadline (for Contracts Finder, checked against each notice, because the bulk feed sometimes shows times a few hours off), contract start and end, and whether it's flagged as suitable for SMEs
• a direct link to the notice on the official site
• source, licence, licenceUrl and attribution fields, so every row carries its Open Government Licence credit
• changeStatus (new, changed or unchanged) and a contentHash

Daily alerts

Turn on Only new or changed since last run and schedule the actor once a day. It remembers what you've already received and only returns notices that are new, or whose deadline, value, status or text has changed. Use a different State store name for each alert list you keep.

Pair it with an Apify integration (email, Slack, Google Sheets, Make or Zapier) and you have a free-form tender alert service.

Input examples

New software and digital tenders from the last week:

{ "keywords": ["software", "digital"], "publishedWithinDays": 7, "onlyNewOrChanged": true }

IT services (CPV 72) worth £100k or more on Find a Tender, still open after 1 November:

{ "sources": ["findATender"], "cpvCodes": ["72"], "minValue": 100000, "deadlineFrom": "2026-11-01" }

Construction work in London:

{ "cpvCodes": ["45"], "regionContains": ["London"] }

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.004 per tender delivered. There's no start fee. Runs stop at Max tenders, so you always know the most a run can cost.

How it treats the source services

• It uses only the published OCDS APIs. No scraping of web pages, and no login.
• It makes about one request per second per service, and identifies itself with a clear User-Agent.
• If Find a Tender answers "too many requests" (HTTP 429), the actor waits as long as the Retry-After header asks. If Contracts Finder signals its rate limit (HTTP 403), the actor pauses for five minutes, as its documentation asks. If the limit is still there after that pause, the actor stops using that source for the rest of the run instead of pushing harder.
• Filters on keywords, CPV codes, value, region and deadline are applied after download, because the official APIs only filter by date and stage. For wide date ranges with narrow filters, raise Max pages per source.

Data licence and attribution

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

• Contracts Finder data: © Crown copyright, from https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk
• Find a Tender data: © Crown copyright, from https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk

If you republish the data, keep the attribution. Every output row includes it for that reason. Government logos and crests are not covered by the OGL, and this actor doesn't use any. The data is provided as published, so always check the official notice before you bid.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Cabinet Office, Contracts Finder, Find a Tender or any UK government body. "Contracts Finder" and "Find a Tender" are used only to describe the data sources.

Questions or ideas

Open an issue on the actor page. I read them, and I'm happy to add filters that people actually use.

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