UK Public Tenders & Contract Awards (Find a Tender)

Every new UK public sector tender and contract award, filtered to what you care about. Official data from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder: titles, values, deadlines, buyer contacts, and for awards, who won and how to reach them.

The UK public sector spends around £400 billion a year with suppliers. Since the Procurement Act 2023 came in (February 2025), almost every new opportunity is published on Find a Tender. This Actor reads it for you, alongside Contracts Finder, and returns a clean list you can filter, export or feed into your CRM.

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At a glance

You give it	Open tenders or contract awards, plus optional keywords, regions, category codes and value range
You get	One row per notice: title, value, deadline, buyer contact; for awards, every winner with Companies House number, email and phone
Price	$0.005 per notice (you only pay for results)
Data source	Find a Tender and Contracts Finder (official UK government services)
Speed	A week of notices in about 3 minutes

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Two modes

Mode	What you get	Who it's for
Open tenders	Live opportunities you can bid for, with value, deadline, category and buyer contact	Suppliers, bid writers, consultants
Contract awards	Contracts just awarded: who won, for how much, by which buyer, with the winner's Companies House number, email, phone and website	Sales teams, subcontractors, lenders, recruiters, market researchers

Contract winners are some of the best B2B leads there are: they have just won new work and often need staff, kit, subcontractors, insurance and finance.

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What you get for each notice

Field	What it means
title, description	What is being bought
value / award_value	Estimated or awarded value (£)
deadline	When bids close (open tenders)
published	When the notice was published or updated
region	UK region of delivery
cpv_codes, cpv_description	Official category codes and their meaning
procedure, category	e.g. Open procedure; goods, services or works
buyer_name, buyer_email, buyer_phone, buyer_town, buyer_postcode	The buying organisation and its contact
supplier_names, suppliers	Awards: each winner with companies_house_number, email, phone, website, is_sme, town, postcode
award_date	When the contract was awarded
url	Link to the full notice
source	Find a Tender or Contracts Finder

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How to use it

1. Pick a mode: open tenders or contract awards.
2. Add keywords like cleaning, software, catering or roofing. Whole words only, so IT won't match "with". Leave empty to get everything.
3. Narrow it down (optional): regions, CPV code prefixes (e.g. 72 for IT services, 90910 for cleaning, 45 for construction), a value range, words to exclude, or a buyer name such as NHS or Council.
4. Choose how far back to look: 1 to 90 days. Run it daily with 1 day, or on a schedule, to get alerts.

Example: cleaning tenders in the South

{
  "mode": "tenders",
  "keywords": ["cleaning", "grounds maintenance"],
  "regions": ["London", "South East", "South West"],
  "days": 7
}

Example: IT contracts won in the last month, over £100k

{
  "mode": "awards",
  "cpvCodes": ["72"],
  "minValue": 100000,
  "days": 30
}

Get your results

Click Start. Rows appear in the Output tab as they're found. Export them as Excel, CSV or JSON, or send them straight to Google Sheets, a CRM or Slack with Apify integrations (Zapier, Make, n8n, webhooks) or the API.

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Daily tender alerts

Schedule the Actor to run every morning with days: 1 and connect it to email, Slack, Google Sheets or your CRM with Apify integrations. You'll see every new matching tender the day it's published.

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Sample output

One row from a real run, trimmed to the main fields. Every field is described above.

{
  "notice_type": "contract award",
  "title": "Cleaning Tender 3 Lots Notice",
  "buyer_name": "Southdown Housing Association",
  "buyer_email": "purchasing.tenders@southdown.org",
  "region": "South East",
  "award_value": 164932.32,
  "award_date": "2026-11-02T00:00:00+00:00",
  "supplier_names": "aAFD Services Ltd, Denma Cleaning Services Ltd",
  "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/103918-2026"
}

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One-click examples

Open one of these ready-made tasks, check the inputs, and click Start. Each is a good starting point you can change.

• Cleaning contracts open for bids (last 7 days)
• IT contracts awarded over £100k (last 30 days)
• Construction tenders in London and the South East
• UK tenders under £100k for small businesses

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Pricing

Event	Price
Notice	$0.005

For example, 200 notices cost $1.00.

You pay per notice returned. Nothing is charged for bad input, for notices that don't match your filters, or if a government source is down. Set maxResults to cap the cost of a run.

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Data sources and licence

• Find a Tender (Cabinet Office)
• Contracts Finder (Crown Commercial Service)

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

Find a Tender limits how fast it can be read. On long look-backs the Actor may pause for a couple of minutes when asked to; that's normal and nothing extra is charged.

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FAQ

Does it cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland? Yes. Find a Tender covers the whole UK for notices above the procurement thresholds and, since February 2025, many below them too.

Why are some values empty? Buyers don't always publish a value. Use minValue only if you're happy to drop notices without one.

Can I get the tender documents? Each row links to the full notice, which links to the buyer's tender portal where documents are held.