UK Government Tenders & Contract Awards Monitor

Monitor UK public-sector tenders and contract awards from BOTH official government sources in one normalized feed:

• Contracts Finder - below-threshold contracts and England-wide opportunities (typically £12k-£139k and up)
• Find a Tender (FTS) - high-value contracts across the whole UK (above ~£139k, up to multi-million frameworks)

The UK public sector spends ~£300 billion a year with suppliers, and every opportunity and award is published on these two registers. This actor turns them into a clean, structured, deduplicated dataset you can filter by sector, keyword, value, and deadline.

Two ways to use it

1. Win work - fresh opportunities in your sector, weekly

Set noticeTypes to opportunities, add your keywords or CPV sector codes, and schedule the actor weekly. Every run delivers the open tenders published in the last 7 days that match your sector - with buyer, estimated value, submission deadline, and a direct link to bid. Use deadlineWithinDays to build a "closing soon" alert.

2. Competitive intel - who's winning what

Set noticeTypes to awards and watch the contracts being signed in your market: which buyers are spending, which suppliers keep winning, and at what values. Perfect for tracking competitors' public-sector wins, finding buyers who purchase what you sell, or spotting incumbents whose contracts will come up for renewal.

Who uses this data

• Bid & business development teams - a rolling feed of live tenders matched to your sector, before your competitors find them by hand
• Agencies & consultancies - marketing, IT, HR, legal and professional-services tenders published every week
• SaaS & tech vendors selling to the public sector - track software and digital-transformation spend, and see which councils/NHS trusts/departments buy what
• Market-intelligence & data platforms - structured OCDS procurement events to feed your models
• Suppliers watching competitors - every award names the winning supplier and the contract value

What you get

One flat schema across both sources (normalized from OCDS):

Field	Example
source	contractsFinder / findATender
title	ITT Provision of Security Services for Orkney Harbour Authority
description	First 500 chars of the notice description
buyerName	Orkney Islands Council
buyerRegion	Northern Ireland / UKM65
stage	tender / award
publishedDate	2026-07-15T16:43:25+01:00
deadlineDate	Submission deadline (open tenders)
valueLow / valueHigh / currency	850000 / GBP
cpvCodes	["79710000", "75241000"]
awardedSupplier	Cam Cab Ltd (awards)
awardedValue	35910 (awards)
ocid	Open Contracting ID - join key across systems
noticeUrl	Direct link to the official notice

Results are deduplicated across the two sources by ocid.

CPV cheat-sheet (common sectors)

CPV codes are the EU/UK procurement sector taxonomy. The filter is prefix-based - 72 matches everything under IT services.

CPV	Sector
72000000	IT services: consulting, software development, internet
48000000	Software packages & information systems
79000000	Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment
79340000	Advertising & marketing services
79600000	Recruitment services
45000000	Construction work
71000000	Architecture, engineering & inspection
85000000	Health & social care services
90000000	Sewage, refuse, cleaning & environmental
80000000	Education & training
60000000	Transport services
77000000	Agriculture, forestry & horticulture
50000000	Repair & maintenance
55000000	Hotel, restaurant & catering
35000000	Security, fire-fighting, police & defence equipment

Full list: simap CPV codes.

Typical usage

• Weekly sector monitor: noticeTypes: opportunities, daysBack: 7, your cpvCodes or keywords, scheduled every Monday
• Closing-soon alerts: add deadlineWithinDays: 14
• SME-sized contracts only: maxValue: 250000
• Competitor win tracker: noticeTypes: awards, daysBack: 14, keyword = competitor or sector
• High-value only: source: findATender, minValue: 1000000

No API key, no login - both government APIs are free and official.

Export & integrations

Results land in an Apify dataset - export CSV, Excel, JSON, or connect Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, Slack, and webhooks via Apify integrations.

Data source & licence

Data comes from the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender services, published by the Cabinet Office under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This actor is not affiliated with the Cabinet Office or Crown Commercial Service. Notices are public record.

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