Find a Tender Scraper & Monitor (UK FTS Tenders & Awards)

Scrape UK public sector tenders and contract awards from Find a Tender (FTS), the UK government's central digital procurement platform, through its official OCDS API. No key, no login, no browser. Get clean JSON, CSV or Excel. Schedule it and each run returns only new and updated notices.

Since the Procurement Act 2023 went live (24 Feb 2025), Find a Tender carries both above- and below-threshold notices for new UK procurements: tenders, pipeline notices, preliminary market engagement, contract awards, amendments and terminations. That's about 400–500 notices a day.

Features

• 📋 Tenders (open opportunities, plus updates and cancellations), awards (supplier, SME flag, awarded value), pipeline / planning, contract changes
• 🔎 Filters: keywords (title and description), CPV code prefixes, min/max value, open deadlines only
• 🔁 Monitor mode: remembers what you've seen and returns only new and updated notices, ideal for daily bid alerts
• 🧩 Clean schema: title, buyer, locality, CPV, value and currency (lot values summed when there's no total), deadline, procedure, NUTS/ITL regions, suppliers, notice URL
• ➕ Optional: add UK Contracts Finder and EU TED to the same run, in the same schema
• 🔒 No personal data: contact emails and phones are not output, and supplier names appear only when clearly organisations (sole traders are withheld)

Input example

{
  "sources": ["find-a-tender"],
  "cfStages": ["tender", "award"],
  "keywords": ["software", "digital"],
  "cpvCodes": ["72", "48"],
  "minValue": 100000,
  "lookbackDays": 7,
  "emitMode": "changes",
  "stateName": "uk-it-tenders"
}

Output example

{
  "changeType": "new",
  "source": "find-a-tender",
  "noticeId": "ocds-h6vhtk-078b7c",
  "releaseId": "098828-2026",
  "stage": "tender",
  "title": "IT0043 Flooding Term Commission 2027-2031",
  "buyerName": "Falkirk Council",
  "buyerLocality": "Larbert",
  "cpvCodes": ["71311000"],
  "cpvDescription": "Civil engineering consultancy services",
  "value": 1400000,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "deadline": "2026-11-30T16:00:00Z",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-20T10:25:55+01:00",
  "procedureType": "open",
  "placeOfPerformance": ["UKM76"],
  "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/098828-2026",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Find a Tender, Cabinet Office)."
}

Daily UK bid alerts in 3 steps

1. Set keywords and/or CPV codes and a State name.
2. Run once. Everything in the look-back window is output as new.
3. Add a daily Schedule and connect Slack, email, Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or a webhook. Later runs continue from the previous run with a 1-day overlap.

Data source & licence

Find a Tender service (UK Cabinet Office), OCDS release package API. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0, which permits commercial reuse with attribution (FTS data documentation, terms). Every row has an attribution field. Departmental logos aren't used. This Actor isn't affiliated with the Cabinet Office.

FAQ

Why don't I use the API's stages filter directly? In our tests it returned far fewer notices than exist. This Actor fetches everything updated in the window and filters on release tags, so nothing is missed. Scotland? Scottish below-threshold notices are published on Public Contracts Scotland, not FTS. Above-threshold Scottish notices are included. Need EU tenders too? Add ted to Sources, or see our UK & EU Tenders Monitor.

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