UK Tenders Scraper – Contracts Finder & Find a Tender

Search UK public sector tenders and contract awards from the two official UK government notice services: Contracts Finder (lower-value English public contracts) and Find a Tender (FTS) (higher-value contracts across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland under the Procurement Act 2023). The Actor reads their official OCDS (Open Contracting Data Standard) APIs. No API key, no login, no browser. Get clean JSON, CSV or Excel with the buyer, value, deadline, CPV codes, winners and a link to every notice.

Use it for bid and tender alerts, public sector sales prospecting, competitor and incumbent research (who won what, for how much), framework and pipeline tracking and market analysis. It pairs well with EU Tenders (TED), SAM.gov Contract Opportunities and USAspending Awards.

What you get for each notice

• Source (Contracts Finder or Find a Tender), notice ID, OCID and stage (tender, award or planning) with the raw release tags
• Title and description (length configurable)
• Buyer name, ID, type, town, postcode, region and website
• Estimated value and currency, submission deadline, contract start and end dates
• CPV code and description plus additional CPV codes, main category (goods, services, works)
• Procurement method, framework flag, number of lots, legal basis
• SME and VCSE suitability flags (Contracts Finder)
• Awarded suppliers with award values and dates (award stage)
• Delivery regions and a direct link to the notice page

Output is organisation-level business data. Contact names, emails and phone numbers are removed.

How to use

1. Pick the sources (both by default) and notice stages (open tenders by default; add awards to see winners).
2. Add keywords, CPV codes, buyer names, regions or a value range.
3. Choose a time window (last N days or fixed dates). Turn on Only open for bids to skip closed tenders.
4. Run. Results appear in the dataset; download as JSON, CSV, Excel or use the API.

Daily tender alert: schedule the Actor every morning with onlyNewSinceLastRun: true and connect the dataset to email, Slack, Google Sheets, Make or Zapier. You only get (and pay for) notices you have not seen.

Example input: open IT and software tenders over £100k

{
  "sources": ["contractsFinder", "findATender"],
  "noticeStages": ["tender"],
  "cpvCodes": ["72", "48"],
  "minValue": 100000,
  "onlyOpen": true,
  "publishedWithinDays": 14
}

Example input: who won NHS contracts in the last 30 days

{
  "noticeStages": ["award"],
  "buyerNames": ["NHS"],
  "publishedWithinDays": 30,
  "maxResults": 500
}

Example output

{
  "source": "Contracts Finder",
  "stage": "tender",
  "title": "Evaluation Scoping Studies (2 Lots)",
  "buyerName": "Gambling Commission",
  "valueAmount": 50000,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "tenderDeadline": "2026-12-03T12:00:00Z",
  "cpvCode": "73110000",
  "cpvDescription": "Research services",
  "suitableForSme": true,
  "awardedSuppliers": [],
  "noticeUrl": "https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/8d6ee322-4f9f-4343-af0a-9769ed660d8e"
}

(A real Contracts Finder notice from November 2026, trimmed to key fields.)

Pricing

Pay per result: $3 per 1,000 notices ($0.003 each), plus the small Apify platform usage of the run. A default run returns up to 100 notices per source in well under a minute.

Tips

• Max results applies per source, so a default run can return up to 200 notices.
• Keyword, CPV, buyer, region and value filters are applied to every notice the APIs return for your date window. For long windows with narrow filters, raise Max pages scanned per source.
• Find a Tender often gives regions as ITL/NUTS codes (UKI = London, UKM = Scotland, UKL = Wales, UKN = Northern Ireland).
• Many notices have no published value; setting a minimum or maximum value excludes them.

Data source and licence

Data comes from the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender OCDS APIs published by the UK Cabinet Office, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the UK government.

FAQ

Do I need an API key? No. Both APIs are public and anonymous.

How fresh is the data? Notices appear in the APIs as soon as they are published; each run queries them live.

Does it cover Scotland and Wales? Find a Tender covers above-threshold notices across the UK. Lower-value notices in Scotland (Public Contracts Scotland) and Wales (Sell2Wales) are published on those portals and are not included.