UK Public Tenders & Contract Expiry Feed

This Actor gives you one clean, deduplicated feed of UK public sector procurement notices from the two official government platforms:

Source	Covers	API
Find a Tender (FTS)	Above-threshold UK tenders and awards (Procurement Act 2023 / PCR 2015)	find-tender.service.gov.uk/api/1.0/ocdsReleasePackages
Contracts Finder (CF)	Below-threshold contracts from English buyers (over £12k / £30k)	contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Published/Notices/OCDS/Search

It does no HTML scraping and needs no login or API key. All data comes from the official, open OCDS APIs.

What it is for

• Open opportunities. These are new tenders still open for bids, plus pipeline/planning notices, filtered by CPV, keyword, value, region and SME suitability.
• Contract awards. See who won what, for how much, and when. Useful for competitor intelligence.
• Expiring contracts (renewal radar). These are awarded contracts whose end date falls in the next N months. You can approach the buyer before the re-tender. Paid tools such as Stotles sell this as "Upcoming expiring contracts" from £75/month.
• Only-new mode. On a daily schedule you get, and pay for, each notice once.
• Presets. it covers CPV 72/48/302. cyber is a security keyword set covering SOC, SIEM, pentest, MDR, Cyber Essentials and similar. Construction and facilities presets are also included.

Privacy by default (UK GDPR)

Notices often name a buyer's contact person and give their email and phone number. By default, this Actor drops those details.

• The contactPoint block is removed.
• Email addresses and UK phone numbers in titles and descriptions are replaced with [email removed] / [phone removed].
• Supplier names that may belong to a sole trader are withheld. A name is kept when the supplier has a company or charity number, is "large", or has an organisation word in its name; otherwise it is withheld.

You can turn on includeContacts only if you have a lawful basis for processing that data.

Input (main fields)

Field	Default	Notes
mode	opportunities	opportunities, awards, expiringContracts or all
sources	["fts","cf"]
lookbackDays	2	Use 365+ for expiringContracts
keywords / excludeKeywords / keywordScope	–	Whole-word matching; cyber* matches as a prefix
cpvPrefixes / cpvPreset	–	Matches main and additional CPV codes
minValueGbp, requireValue, smeSuitableOnly, openOnly, regions
expiringWithinMonths	12
onlyNew	false	State is kept in the named key-value store uk-tenders-feed-state
maxItems / maxRequestsPerSource	500 / 50	Each request returns up to 100 notices

Output

Each notice is one row. Fields include:

• source, noticeUrl, stage (planning / tender / award)
• title, description, buyer (name, locality, postcode, region, website)
• CPV codes with labels, procurement method, estimated value
• deadline, contract start and end, delivery regions, SME/VCSE suitability
• awards (value, dates, suppliers with Companies House number and scale)
• the licence statement

See .actor/dataset_schema.json and sample-output.json. A run summary is saved to the key-value store as RUN_SUMMARY.

Politeness

• At most about 1 request per second per host, with a declared User-Agent.
• Backs off on 429/403/5xx and honours Retry-After.
• Follows cursor pagination and hard-caps pages per source.
• Neither host publishes a robots.txt (both returned 404 when checked on 2026-10-28).

Licence and attribution

The notice data is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Every row carries: "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0." Keep that statement when you republish.

Always read the official notice before you bid.

Run locally

cd /workspace/apify-actors/uk-public-tenders-feed
python3 -m venv .venv && . .venv/bin/activate && pip install -r requirements.txt   # or reuse ../.venv
apify run -i '{"mode":"opportunities","lookbackDays":2,"maxItems":20}'            # no login needed
# or without the CLI:
mkdir -p storage/key_value_stores/default && echo '{"mode":"awards","cpvPreset":"cyber"}' > storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json
APIFY_LOCAL_STORAGE_DIR=./storage python -m src

The results land in storage/datasets/default/.