UK Tenders Scraper (Find a Tender + Contracts Finder)

This UK tenders scraper collects public procurement notices from the two official UK sources in one run: Find a Tender (FTS, the post-Brexit replacement for TED, above-threshold contracts) and Contracts Finder (below-threshold and lower-value contracts). You get one clean, normalized JSON format across both, filtered by CPV, keywords and notice type. No API keys, no login, no personal-data scraping.

Why a dedicated UK scraper?

Since Brexit, the UK is no longer published on the EU's TED database. If you rely on a TED-based feed, you miss UK public contracts entirely. This actor reads the UK's own official OCDS APIs directly, run by the Cabinet Office under the Procurement Act 2023.

This is the only Apify actor that combines both official UK sources:

	TED-based feeds	This actor
UK contracts (post-Brexit)	no	yes
Above-threshold (Find a Tender)	n/a	yes
Below-threshold (Contracts Finder)	n/a	yes
One normalized schema	n/a	yes
Cross-source deduplication	n/a	yes

What data does it return?

{
  "id": "fts:ocds-h6vhtk-06d3c7",
  "source": "fts",
  "title": "Technical and Operations Delivery Partner",
  "buyer": "Surrey County Council",
  "country": "GBR",
  "cpv_codes": ["71621000", "72224000"],
  "notice_type": "tender",
  "publication_date": "2026-07-25",
  "deadline": "2026-08-26",
  "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/070483-2026",
  "description": null
}

source is fts (Find a Tender) or contracts-finder.

How to use it

Example input, all fields optional:

{
  "sources": ["fts", "contracts-finder"],
  "noticeTypes": ["tender"],
  "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
  "keywords": ["cloud", "software"],
  "daysBack": 7,
  "maxItems": 200,
  "mode": "digest"
}

• sources: fts (above-threshold) and/or contracts-finder (below-threshold).
• noticeTypes: tender (open calls), award (who won), planning, contract. Default tender.
• cpvCodes: prefix match. 72 matches all IT services, 60000000 matches exactly.
• keywords: case-insensitive match on title and description.
• daysBack: publication window, 1 to 90 days.
• mode: search returns the dataset; digest also writes a ready-to-send markdown summary (grouped by notice type) to the key-value store under the key DIGEST.

Tender monitoring and alerts

Run the actor on a daily or weekly schedule in digest mode and connect an Apify integration (Slack, email, webhook, Make, Zapier) to deliver the DIGEST wherever your team works. Notices that appear on both portals are merged automatically.

Use cases

• Bid monitoring in the UK: never miss a relevant public contract, above or below threshold.
• Post-Brexit coverage: fill the gap left when the UK stopped publishing on TED.
• Market research: track which UK public buyers purchase what, where, and how often.
• AI agents: the normalized output makes this actor easy to consume from Claude, Cursor or your own agent stack.

FAQ

Is this allowed? Yes. Both sources are official UK government portals (Cabinet Office). This actor uses their public, documented OCDS APIs (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder) under the Open Government Licence, and collects no personal data beyond the organization-level procurement information the government itself publishes.

How fresh is the data? As fresh as the portals: UK buyers publish continuously on business days. Run the actor on a schedule to stay current.

What is the difference between the two sources? Find a Tender carries higher-value, above-threshold notices (the TED replacement); Contracts Finder carries below-threshold and lower-value opportunities. Together they cover the UK public procurement landscape.

How does pricing work? Pay per event: a small fee per returned notice, and a flat fee per generated digest. maxItems caps your cost per run.

Related Fetchwerk actors

All Fetchwerk procurement actors share a normalized output schema, so you can merge them into one pipeline:

• EU Tenders Scraper: EU-wide open calls from TED plus Dutch tenders from TenderNed.
• German Tenders Scraper: German national and below-threshold tenders.
• EU Contract Award Radar: who won which EU public contract, for how much.

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