Find a Tender API: UK Tenders Feed (Unofficial)

What does Find a Tender API: UK Tenders Feed do?

It pulls UK public procurement notices from Find a Tender (FTS), the UK government's service for higher-value public contracts, and returns them as clean, flat rows you can download as JSON, CSV or Excel or read through the Apify API. It reads the official, keyless OCDS feed, so you need no account or API key.

Each row is one notice: tenders (open opportunities), contract awards and contract details, and planning notices (market engagement and pipeline). Rows include the buyer, CPV codes, estimated and awarded values, deadlines, regions, contract dates and a link to the original notice.

Use it for UK tenders monitoring, bid pipelines, market sizing and procurement research.

What data can you extract?

Field	Meaning
noticeId, procurementId	Find a Tender notice ID (e.g. 100218-2026) and the OCDS procurement ID that links notices of one procurement
noticeUrl	Link to the original notice on Find a Tender
title, noticeKind, noticeType, releaseTags	Title; planning / tender / award / other; notice form (e.g. UK4 tender notice, UK6 contract award notice, UK7 contract details notice)
tenderStatus, procedureType, legalBasis, contractNature, aboveThreshold	Status, procedure, legal basis, goods / services / works, above-threshold flag
buyerName, buyerRegion	Buying organisation and its region code (ITL/NUTS, e.g. UKI34)
deliveryRegions	Region codes where the contract is delivered
cpvCodes, mainCpvCode, mainCpvDescription	CPV classification
estimatedValue, estimatedValueInclVat, estimatedValueCurrency	Estimated value (excluding VAT, and including VAT when given). Sum of lots when there is no overall value
awardedValue, awardedValueCurrency	Total awarded value (award notices)
lotCount, deadlineAt, contractStart, contractEnd	Lots, tender deadline (not set on awards), contract period
suitableForSme, suitableForVcse	Whether any lot is marked suitable for SMEs / VCSEs
suppliers, suppliersWithheld	Winning organisations (only with includeSuppliers, see Privacy)
description	Free-text description (only with includeDescriptions)
changeStatus	new / updated / unchanged (only with change tracking)
publishedAt, retrievedAt, attribution, notice	Dates, the Open Government Licence attribution and a non-affiliation line on every row

How to use it

1. Click Try for free and keep the prefilled input (last 3 days, 20 notices), or set your filters.
2. Run it. Rows appear in the Output tab; download them in any format.
3. To get only new or changed notices every day, turn on Track changes and Only new or updated, and schedule the Actor.

Filters: date window (last N days or from/to dates, up to 90 days), notice kind, CPV codes (broader codes include sub-codes), regions (ITL/NUTS prefix, e.g. UKI = London), keywords (title and description), and minimum/maximum value.

Input examples

Daily new IT tenders (CPV 72000000 and 48000000), only new or changed ones:

{
    "lastNDays": 1,
    "noticeKinds": ["tender"],
    "cpvCodes": ["72000000", "48000000"],
    "maxResults": 500,
    "trackChanges": true,
    "onlyNewOrUpdated": true
}

Contract awards over 100,000 in London in the last week, with winning organisations:

{
    "lastNDays": 7,
    "noticeKinds": ["award"],
    "regions": ["UKI"],
    "minValue": 100000,
    "includeSuppliers": true,
    "maxResults": 1000
}

Construction pipeline (planning notices) matching keywords:

{
    "lastNDays": 3,
    "noticeKinds": ["planning"],
    "keywords": ["construction", "refurbishment"],
    "maxResults": 200
}

Output example

{
    "noticeId": "100649-2026",
    "procurementId": "ocds-h6vhtk-078f61",
    "noticeUrl": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/100649-2026",
    "sourceName": "UK Find a Tender service (Cabinet Office)",
    "title": "External Audit Services",
    "noticeKind": "award",
    "releaseTags": ["award", "contract"],
    "noticeType": null,
    "tenderStatus": "complete",
    "procedureType": "Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition",
    "legalBasis": "CELEX 32014L0024",
    "contractNature": "services",
    "aboveThreshold": null,
    "buyerName": "Citizen Housing Group Ltd",
    "buyerRegion": "UKG32",
    "deliveryRegions": ["UKG"],
    "cpvCodes": ["79212000"],
    "mainCpvCode": "79212000",
    "mainCpvDescription": "Auditing services",
    "estimatedValue": null,
    "estimatedValueInclVat": null,
    "estimatedValueCurrency": null,
    "awardedValue": 600000,
    "awardedValueCurrency": "GBP",
    "lotCount": 1,
    "publishedAt": "2026-10-23T15:27:46+01:00",
    "deadlineAt": null,
    "contractStart": null,
    "contractEnd": null,
    "suitableForSme": null,
    "suitableForVcse": null,
    "suppliers": ["Menzies LLP"],
    "suppliersWithheld": 0,
    "description": "This contract will include 2 work streams. This will cover all of Citizen's external audit requirements, and a separate audit on Citizen's decarbonisation program. This contract will commence 1st November 2026, and will be let for 48 months.",
    "changeStatus": null,
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Licence: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/. Source: Find a Tender, https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk. Normalised by this Actor; not an official reproduction.",
    "notice": "Unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Find a Tender, the Cabinet Office or Crown Commercial Service.",
    "retrievedAt": "2026-10-23T14:28:12.732Z"
}

How much does it cost?

• $0.01 per run start plus $6 per 1,000 notices saved ($0.006 each, the tender event). Example: 1,000 notices = $0.01 + $6 = $6.01.
• You pay only for rows that are saved. Rows skipped as duplicates, invalid, filtered out or unchanged are free.
• Set Maximum cost per run when you start a run; the Actor stops when it reaches your cap.

Privacy: organisations only

Notices list contact people, emails, phone numbers and street addresses. This Actor never outputs them. Rows carry organisation-level data only. Descriptions are off by default; when on, email addresses and phone numbers are replaced with placeholders, but names written inside free text can remain.

Supplier names are off by default. With includeSuppliers, a winner is shown only if it is registered with Companies House, a charity register or another organisation register, or its name looks like an organisation (Ltd, LLP, Council, Trust and similar). Anything else is withheld and counted in suppliersWithheld, because winners can be sole traders. This is a heuristic: it can withhold some real companies.

Limits

• The date window uses the date a notice was published or last updated (that is how the official feed filters).
• Deadlines exist only on tender and planning notices. Award and contract notices have no deadlineAt, so in a mixed feed about 80% of rows have no deadline. To get only open opportunities with deadlines, set Notice kinds to tender.
• Regions are ITL/NUTS codes, not place names. Use a code prefix such as UKI (London), UKM (Scotland) or UKD3 (Greater Manchester). A place name like "London" will not match.
• Find a Tender covers higher-value UK procurement. Lower-value UK contracts are published on Contracts Finder, which this Actor does not read.
• Values are in the notice's own currency; there is no conversion. Notices without a value are excluded when a value filter is set.
• Output is a normalised copy, not an official reproduction. Check the original notice before bidding.
• maxRequests (default 60, up to 100 notices per request) caps API calls per run.

FAQ

Do I need an API key? No. The feed is public and keyless.

Is the data free to reuse? Find a Tender states: "All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated". Every row carries the OGL attribution and licence link. This is not legal advice.

How fresh is it? Each run reads the live feed. Schedule it daily for alerts.

Unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Find a Tender, the Cabinet Office or Crown Commercial Service.