UK Public Tenders & Contract Awards

One feed for UK public-sector procurement: live tenders, pipeline (planning) notices and contract awards from Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, normalised into a single clean schema and filtered by keyword, CPV code, buyer, region, value and SME suitability.

Built on the two official open-data APIs, not on page scraping, so it does not break when a website is redesigned. Runs in seconds and costs a fraction of a penny per notice.

Who this is for

• Bid and sales teams who want a daily list of new opportunities in their sector, pushed to a spreadsheet, CRM, Slack or email via Apify integrations.
• Market and competitor analysts tracking who is winning which contracts, at what value.
• Journalists, researchers and civic-tech builders who need bulk, structured procurement data without writing API code.
• AI agents that need a reliable tool for "find UK tenders about X" (works through Apify's MCP server).

What you get

One row per notice:

Field	Example
stage	tender, planning or award
title, description	Full text of the notice
buyerName, buyerType, buyerLocality, buyerPostcode, buyerEmail, buyerPhone, buyerWebsite	The contracting authority and its published procurement contact
cpvCodes, cpvDescriptions	All CPV classifications, e.g. 72000000 IT services
valueAmount, valueMin, valueMax, currency	Estimated or awarded value
deadline, isOpen	Submission deadline and whether it is still in the future
contractStart, contractEnd	Contract period
deliveryRegions	Where the work is delivered
smeSuitable, vcseSuitable	Buyer's suitability flags (Contracts Finder)
suppliers, awardValue, awardDate	For awards: who won and for how much
documents	Links to tender packs and notice pages
noticeUrl, noticeId, ocid, source, publishedDate	Identifiers and the human-readable notice page

Set includeRaw to also get the complete original OCDS release.

Quick start

New IT tenders in the last week, still open for bids:

{
    "sources": ["contractsFinder", "findATender"],
    "stages": ["tender"],
    "daysBack": 7,
    "cpvPrefixes": ["72", "48"],
    "openOnly": true
}

Who won NHS contracts over £1m last month:

{
    "stages": ["award"],
    "daysBack": 30,
    "buyerKeywords": ["NHS"],
    "minValueGbp": 1000000
}

Construction opportunities in Scotland suitable for SMEs:

{
    "stages": ["tender"],
    "daysBack": 14,
    "cpvPrefixes": ["45"],
    "regions": ["Scotland", "UKM"],
    "smeSuitableOnly": true
}

Input options

Option	Default	Notes
sources	both	contractsFinder, findATender
stages	["tender"]	tender, planning, award
daysBack	7	Window ending today, unless explicit dates are given
publishedFrom / publishedTo	-	YYYY-MM-DD, inclusive
keywords / excludeKeywords	-	Case-insensitive, matched on title + description; any keyword matches
cpvPrefixes	-	e.g. 72 IT, 45 construction, 85 health, 80 education, 90 environmental
buyerKeywords	-	Buyer name contains
regions	-	Matches delivery regions, buyer locality, postcode or NUTS code
minValueGbp / maxValueGbp / requireValue	-	Value filters; unvalued notices kept unless requireValue
smeSuitableOnly	false	Contracts Finder flag
openOnly	true	Drop tenders whose deadline has passed
includeRaw	false	Attach the full OCDS release
maxItems	500	Hard cap on returned notices

Scheduling and integrations

Schedule the actor daily in Apify, then use an integration to push new rows to Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, email, Make, Zapier or n8n. Use ocid to de-duplicate: one procurement keeps the same OCID across its tender, amendment and award notices.

Data sources and licence

• Contracts Finder (Cabinet Office) OCDS API: notices from English and some UK-wide public bodies, typically above £12k (central government) or £30k (wider public sector).
• Find a Tender Service OCDS API: higher-value notices across the UK under the Procurement Act 2023, replacing OJEU/TED for the UK.

Both datasets are published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Buyer contact details are the organisational procurement contacts the authorities publish for the purpose of receiving bids.

Pricing

Pay per event: one event per notice returned, after filtering. Scanning and filtering are free; you only pay for what lands in your dataset. Set a maximum charge per run to cap spend.