UK Public Tenders

Collect UK public-sector procurement notices from the two official government OCDS APIs:

• Find a Tender (find-tender.service.gov.uk) – higher-value UK notices
• Contracts Finder (contractsfinder.service.gov.uk) – English notices above ~£12k/£30k

What it does

Pulls recent notices (by published/updated date), normalises them into one row per notice, and filters by keywords, CPV code prefixes, region (NUTS code or postcode prefix), minimum value and notice type. onlyNewSinceLastRun remembers already-returned notice IDs in the named key-value store uk-public-tenders-state, ideal for daily schedules/alerts. Requests are rate-limited (≈1 request/second, retries with back-off).

Input example

{ "keywords": ["software", "cloud"], "cpvCodes": ["72000000"], "region": "UKI", "daysBack": 7, "minValue": 100000, "noticeTypes": ["tender"], "maxItems": 50, "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true }

Keyword/CPV/region/value/type filters are applied to scanned pages; maxPagesPerSource (default 20 × 100 notices) bounds how far back each run scans.

Output example

{
  "id": "104036-2026", "ocid": "ocds-h6vhtk-079633", "title": "Vehicle Maintenance",
  "buyer": "University of Exeter", "value": 40300, "currency": "GBP", "cpvCodes": ["50110000"],
  "regions": [], "deadline": "2026-11-17T12:00:00+00:00", "status": "active", "noticeType": ["tender"],
  "source": "find-tender", "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/104036-2026",
  "publishedDate": "2026-11-03T10:04:44Z", "description": "…"
}

Privacy

Contact person names, emails and phone numbers present in the source data are deliberately not output. Only the buyer organisation name is included.

Data source & licence

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Find a Tender service and Contracts Finder (Crown copyright). Not affiliated with or endorsed by the UK Government.

Limits

• Value may be missing on some notices (then value is null; such notices are excluded if minValue is set).
• The same procurement can appear in both sources and as several releases (tender, award, …).
• Free Apify plan users get limited results per run.

Pricing

Pay per result (price set by the Actor owner in Apify Console).