UK Public Tender Alerts — new notices only

Get only the UK public procurement notices you haven't seen yet, filtered by keywords, CPV codes, contract value and region. Data comes from the official Find a Tender OCDS API run by the UK Cabinet Office, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Schedule it daily (or hourly) and connect the dataset to email, Slack, Google Sheets or a webhook to get a clean tender alert feed.

Why this Actor

• Incremental by design – a named key-value store remembers every notice already delivered, so each run outputs new notices only.
• Fair pricing – pay-per-event: you are charged only per new matching notice. A run that finds nothing new costs nothing for results.
• Official open data – uses the public API, no browser scraping, no login, no anti-bot workarounds.
• No personal data – named contact persons, emails and phone numbers are dropped from every record.

Input

Field	Description
keywords	Any of these words in title/description (case-insensitive).
cpvCodes	CPV prefixes, e.g. 72 (IT services), 79410000.
minValue / maxValue	Value range in the notice currency (GBP for UK, usually EUR for TED). requireValue drops notices with no stated value.
regions	NUTS/ITL prefixes, e.g. UKI (London), UKM (Scotland).
noticeStages	planning, tender, award, contract. Default tender (open opportunities).
lookbackDays	How far back to scan (1–30, default 3).
maxResults	Cap of new results per run.
stateStoreName	Dedup store name — use one per alert profile.

Example:

{ "keywords": ["software", "cloud"], "cpvCodes": ["72"], "minValue": 50000, "regions": ["UK"], "lookbackDays": 3 }

Output (one item per new notice)

noticeId, ocid, noticeType, publishedDate, title, description (≤2000 chars), status, buyerName, buyerCountry, valueAmount, valueCurrency, deadline, procurementMethod, cpvCodes[], regions[], url, source

See sample-output.json for real records.

Pricing

Pay per event new-notice (one charge per new delivered notice). Zero new notices = zero result charges. Platform usage is minimal (a few JSON API calls).

Data source & licence

• API: https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/api/1.0/ocdsReleasePackages (documentation)
• Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, as stated in every API response. Attribution: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

This Actor is independent and not affiliated with the UK Government or Cabinet Office.

Limitations

• Covers UK Find a Tender only.
• Region and value filters depend on what the buyer published; many award notices carry no value.

Optional source: EU TED (off by default)

Set includeTed: true to also receive notices from TED (Tenders Electronic Daily). UK Find a Tender remains the default; set includeUk: false for a TED-only run.

Not an official EU service. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the EU, the EU Publications Office or TED. No TED logo is used.

• Data comes only from the official TED Search API (POST https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search). No web pages are scraped. Requests are throttled to at most 60 per minute.
• Filters: cpvCodes (prefixes, applied server-side as full 8-digit codes and re-checked locally), tedCountries (buyer country, ISO alpha-3), tedNoticeTypes, keywords (title only), regions (NUTS prefix on place of performance), minValue/maxValue (sum of estimated lot values, notice currency), lookbackDays.
• Every TED item carries url (the original notice on ted.europa.eu), plus source and disclaimer fields.
• Personal data: the Actor requests only a whitelist of non-personal fields (publication number, title, notice type, dates, buyer organisation name and country, CPV, place of performance, estimated value, deadline). Contact names, e-mails, phones, fax and all winner/tenderer fields are never requested, so names of natural-person awardees cannot appear. Free text is additionally scrubbed of e-mail addresses and phone numbers.
• Dedup: the same key-value store is used with source-prefixed keys (uk:<id>, ted:<publication-number>).

Attribution (included in every TED item):

Source: TED – Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu. Data reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; summarised and filtered by UK & EU Tender Alerts. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the EU Publications Office. Only notices published in the Supplement to the OJEU are authentic.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.004 per new matching notice delivered (either source). Duplicates already delivered and runs with zero new results are free.