UK Government Contract Intelligence

UK Government Contract Intelligence

Find UK government contracts, tenders and recompete opportunities from Find a Tender OCDS — structured for coding agents, MCP clients and applications.

Use this Actor when you need:

• expiring government contracts / contract expiry windows
• incumbent supplier for a buyer and category (CPV)
• recompete / contract renewal candidates with transparent scores (not probabilities)
• supplier intelligence and buyer intelligence profiles
• open public sector opportunities / bid opportunities
• deterministic supplier ↔ opportunity matching

Built for AI agents, BD automation, bid desks, CRM enrichment and procurement tools.

Important: Unofficial community Actor. Not affiliated with Cabinet Office, Crown Commercial Service or GOV.UK. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Not legal or bid advice.

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How to call it

Send an operation plus that operation’s fields. One run = one operation.

Successful results use:

{
  "operation": "find_likely_recompetes",
  "success": true,
  "data": [],
  "warnings": [],
  "assumptions": [],
  "sources": [{ "source": "find_a_tender_ocds" }],
  "generatedAt": "2026-08-08T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Failures return success: false and error: { code, message, missingInformation }.

Limits: maxResults defaults to 20 and cannot exceed 50.

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Operations

Operation	When to use	Key inputs
find_expiring_contracts	Contracts ending in a date window	endingFrom, endingTo; optional buyer, supplier, cpvCodes, minimumValue
find_incumbent_supplier	Who holds work for a buyer/category	buyer; optional cpvCodes
find_likely_recompetes	Ranked renewal / rebid targets	optional cpvCodes, windowMonths, minimumValue, filters
get_supplier_profile	Public-sector award history for a supplier	supplier
get_buyer_profile	Buyer awards, expiries, open tenders	buyer
find_current_opportunities	Open / active tenders	optional query, cpvCodes, closing dates, value bounds
match_supplier_to_opportunities	Fit open tenders to a supplier’s history	supplier

Quick map for agents

Intent	Prefer
“What IT contracts expire in the next 6 months?”	find_expiring_contracts
“Who is the incumbent for this trust on CPV 72000000?”	find_incumbent_supplier
“Where should we look for renewals?”	find_likely_recompetes
“Summarise this supplier’s public-sector wins”	get_supplier_profile
“What is this authority buying?”	get_buyer_profile
“Open cloud tenders closing soon”	find_current_opportunities
“Which live tenders fit this supplier?”	match_supplier_to_opportunities

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Example inputs

Expiring contracts

{
  "operation": "find_expiring_contracts",
  "endingFrom": "2026-08-01",
  "endingTo": "2026-12-31",
  "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
  "minimumValue": 100000,
  "maxResults": 20
}

Likely recompetes

{
  "operation": "find_likely_recompetes",
  "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
  "windowMonths": 12,
  "minimumValue": 250000,
  "maxResults": 20
}

recompeteScore is an explainable points score with scoreFactors[]. It is not a calibrated win probability.

Incumbent (conservative)

{
  "operation": "find_incumbent_supplier",
  "buyer": "Example NHS Trust",
  "cpvCodes": ["72000000"]
}

If evidence is weak the Actor returns NO_CREDIBLE_INCUMBENT rather than guessing.

Match supplier to opportunities

{
  "operation": "match_supplier_to_opportunities",
  "supplier": "Acme Software Limited",
  "maxResults": 20
}

Matching uses deterministic CPV overlap, keyword similarity and prior buyer history — not an LLM judgment.

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Errors to handle

Code	Meaning
DATA_NOT_READY	Underlying notice corpus is not ready yet — retry later
INVALID_DATE_RANGE	endingFrom is after endingTo
INVALID_CPV_CODE	CPV codes must be 8 digits
NO_CREDIBLE_INCUMBENT	No conservative incumbent match
INSUFFICIENT_RECOMPETE_EVIDENCE	No candidates met the evidence threshold
BUYER_NOT_FOUND / SUPPLIER_NOT_FOUND	No matching organisation in the corpus
RESULT_LIMIT_EXCEEDED	maxResults above 50

Empty lists with success: true are normal when nothing matches.

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Provenance

Where available, rows include sourceEvidence (OCID, release id, notice URL). Prefer citing those in answers.

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Keywords

UK government contracts · UK tenders · Find a Tender · public procurement · public sector opportunities · contract expiry · expiring government contracts · incumbent supplier · recompete · contract renewal · bid opportunities · supplier intelligence · buyer intelligence · CPV · MCP