UK Public Tenders: Find a Tender + Contracts Finder

Every UK public sector contract opportunity and award from the two official services, Find a Tender (all UK, high-value and Procurement Act 2023 notices) and Contracts Finder (England, lower-value contracts), merged into one clean, deduplicated list.

Filter by keywords, CPV codes, buyer, location, value, deadline and SME suitability, or schedule it to receive only the new notices every morning. Official data, Open Government Licence.

What can you do with it?

• 🎯 Find contracts to bid for: "open IT and software tenders in London", "cleaning or catering contracts over £100,000", "NHS tenders suitable for SMEs".
• 🔔 Daily alerts: schedule a run every morning with onlyNewSinceLastRun and get only what you have not seen yet.
• 🕵️ Competitor intelligence: award notices with who won and for how much.
• 📅 Pipeline: planning notices announce procurements before they open.

Why this Actor?

	This Actor	Typical UK tender scrapers
Both official services in one run, one row per procedure	✅ Find a Tender + Contracts Finder, copies merged (alsoPublishedOn)	⚠️ one service
Procurement Act 2023 notices (UK4…)	✅ all of them: the services' own stage filter misses most of them (32 of 373 tenders in a test week), so stages are sorted here	❌ most new-regime tenders missing
Reliable	✅ follows the services' rate limit (12 requests/min) and waits when asked: no failed runs	⚠️ frequent failures (HTTP 429)
Open tenders only	✅ passed deadlines, cancelled and closed tenders removed	❌
Locations by name	✅ "London", "North West", "Scotland", towns, postcode areas	⚠️ codes only
Clean fields	✅ plain-text descriptions, value, deadline, CPV codes and labels, buyer contact, winners	⚠️ raw OCDS JSON

Input

Field	Description	Example
keywords	At least one word in the title or description	["software", "cyber security"]
cpvCodes	CPV codes or prefixes	["72", "48"]
stages	tender (open), planning (upcoming), award (who won)	["tender"]
publishedWithinDays / publishedSince	Publication period (default 7 days, up to a year)	30
locations	Regions, towns or postcode areas	["London"]
buyers	Part of the buyer's name	["NHS"]
minValue / maxValue	Contract value in GBP	100000
openOnly	Skip passed deadlines and closed tenders (default true)	true
smeSuitableOnly	Only notices flagged as suitable for SMEs	false
sources	FTS, CF (default both)	["FTS", "CF"]
onlyNewSinceLastRun	Monitoring mode	true
maxResults	Maximum notices (newest first)	200

Output

Real example (shortened):

{
    "source": "Find a Tender",
    "noticeId": "093572-2026",
    "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/093572-2026",
    "stage": "tender",
    "title": "Football Delivery Partner - Redcar and Cleveland College",
    "status": "active",
    "cpvCodes": ["80000000"],
    "cpvDescriptions": ["Education and training services"],
    "mainCategory": "services",
    "procurementMethodDetails": "Below threshold - open competition",
    "value": 75000,
    "currency": "GBP",
    "publishedDate": "2026-10-02 19:02",
    "deadline": "2026-10-16 12:00",
    "contractStart": "2026-11-01 00:00",
    "contractEnd": "2029-10-31 23:59",
    "smeSuitable": true,
    "buyerName": "The Education Training Collective",
    "buyerTown": "Thornaby",
    "buyerPostcode": "TS176FB",
    "buyerRegion": "North East",
    "deliveryRegionNames": ["North East"]
}

Other fields: ocid, noticeTypes, description (plain text), procurementMethod, aboveThreshold, valueMin, enquiryDeadline, vcseSuitable, lots, buyerAddress, buyerContactName, buyerContactEmail, buyerContactPhone, buyerWebsite, deliveryRegions (ITL codes), suppliers and awardValue / awardDate (award notices), documents (links), alsoPublishedOn.

A SUMMARY record gives the counts by source, stage and buyer, and how many notices were skipped by each filter.

Notes

• Find a Tender and Contracts Finder allow 12 requests per minute: a 7-day search takes 2–3 minutes, a 30-day search about 10 minutes. When a service asks to wait, the Actor waits instead of failing.
• Several notices of the same procedure (notice, updates, award) are reduced to one row: the latest complete one, with every notice type seen in noticeTypes.
• Contact details are those published by the buyers for suppliers' questions about the procurement.

Pricing

You only pay for the results returned. No subscription.

Results	Price
1 notice	$0.004
100 notices	$0.40
1,000 notices	$4.00

A start fee of a fraction of a cent applies per run. Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops exactly at your budget.

Use it in your tools

• No code: run it from the Apify Console, download the results as Excel, CSV or JSON, and schedule it (daily, weekly…).
• Integrations: send the results to Google Sheets, Slack, email, webhooks, Make, Zapier or n8n with Apify's integrations.
• API: start runs and read the results with the Apify API or the official Python and JavaScript clients.
• AI agents: assistants and agents that support MCP can call this Actor as a tool through Apify's MCP server (mcp.apify.com).

Related Actors

• Public Tenders Monitor: TED (EU) + BOAMP (France): EU (TED) and French (BOAMP) public tenders, with alerts
• USAspending Federal Awards: Contract & Grant Winners: Who wins US federal contracts and grants (USAspending)
• UK Company Financials: Companies House Accounts: UK companies' latest accounts: employees, net assets, cash, debts

Source & licence

Find a Tender and Contracts Finder (UK Government). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This Actor is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by the UK Government.