UK Tenders Scraper & Monitor (Find a Tender)

Get UK public sector tenders and contract awards from Find a Tender, the UK government's central procurement service, as a clean table you can open in Excel or Google Sheets, or send to your CRM or an AI agent.

Under the Procurement Act 2023, UK public buyers (central government, councils, NHS trusts, universities, housing associations and more) publish their tenders, awards and contract details on Find a Tender, both above and below the old EU thresholds. This Actor reads that feed, keeps what matches your filters and, if you want, sends you only the new notices every day.

What you can do with it

• Find contracts to bid on. Filter by keywords, CPV codes, region (London, Scotland, North West… or NUTS codes), minimum value in pounds and SME suitability. Keep only tenders that are still open.
• Get a daily feed of new tenders, straight to Telegram or Slack. Turn on Only new notices since the last run, add a Telegram bot, a Slack webhook or any webhook (Make, Zapier, n8n), and schedule the Actor. You never pay twice for the same notice.
• Track who wins what. Pull contract award notices to see suppliers, awarded values and contract periods by buyer, region and category.

How to use it

1. Enter keywords (whole words or phrases, for example software, grounds maintenance), CPV codes (for example 72000000 for IT services; child codes are included), or both.
2. Optionally pick regions, notice types, a date range, a minimum value or Only SME-suitable.
3. Click Start, then download the results as Excel, CSV or JSON, or connect them to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or n8n.

Example inputs

Open software and digital tenders in London and the South East from the last week:

{
  "keywords": ["software", "digital", "cloud"],
  "regions": ["London", "South East"],
  "noticeTypes": ["tender"],
  "openOnly": true
}

A daily Slack alert for new SME-friendly construction tenders over £100,000:

{
  "cpvCodes": ["45000000"],
  "noticeTypes": ["tender"],
  "minValue": 100000,
  "smeOnly": true,
  "monitorMode": true,
  "slackWebhookUrl": "<your Slack incoming webhook>"
}

Contract awards for facilities management last month, to see who won:

{
  "keywords": ["facilities management", "cleaning"],
  "noticeTypes": ["award"],
  "publishedFrom": "2026-09-01",
  "publishedTo": "2026-09-30"
}

What you get

Field	What it is
noticeId, ocid, publicationDate	Find a Tender notice number, procurement ID and publication date
noticeType, noticeTypeLabel	Tender notice, tender update, contract award, contract details…
title, description, status	What is being bought
buyerName, buyerTown, buyerRegion, buyerPostcode, buyerWebsite	The public body buying
category, procurementMethod, procurementMethodDetails	Goods, services or works; open, competitive flexible, direct award…
cpvMain, cpvCodes, deliveryRegions	CPV codes and places of delivery (NUTS)
deadline	Tender submission deadline
valueGbp, lotCount	Estimated value in pounds, and the number of lots
suitableForSme, suitableForVcse	Whether the buyer marked it suitable for SMEs or voluntary, community and social enterprises
awardedSuppliers, awardedValueGbp	Contract award notices only
contractStart, contractEnd	Contract period
submissionUrl, noticeUrl	Where to bid, and the notice on Find a Tender

Compact output ("outputMode": "compact") returns only the essentials per notice: ID, date, type, title, buyer, region, CPV, deadline, value, suppliers and link.

Pricing

You pay per notice saved: $2.50 per 1,000 notices. Notices the Actor reads but that don't match your filters are free, and so are alerts. There is no monthly fee. Set Max notices or a spending limit and the Actor stops exactly there.

Tips

• Keywords match whole words, in the title and description. software won't match softwares; add variants if you need them.
• Regions match either the buyer's address or the place of delivery.
• Long periods take longer. Find a Tender's API has no keyword search, so the Actor reads every notice in your date range and filters it. A week takes seconds; a few months can take several minutes, because Find a Tender limits how fast it can be read.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? From Find a Tender's official public OCDS API, run by the UK Cabinet Office. No scraping of web pages.

Is it legal to use this data? Yes. Find a Tender data is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0, which allows commercial reuse with attribution.

Does it collect personal data? No contact names, emails or phone numbers are included. The Actor returns the buyer organisation, its town, region, postcode and website.

What about Contracts Finder? Contracts Finder is the older UK service for lower-value contracts. Its public API doesn't reliably filter by date, so this Actor uses Find a Tender, where new procurements under the Procurement Act 2023 are published.

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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Find a Tender, https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the UK government.