UK Tenders & Contract Awards – Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and TED, with expiry dates

Find UK public contracts that are up for renewal, who holds them, and the winner's Companies House number. First 25 rows of every run free, then $3 per 1,000 rows.

What does this UK tenders scraper do?

It pulls contract awards and open tenders from three official, free public APIs into one clean table, with one schema:

• Find a Tender (UK, above threshold)
• Contracts Finder (England, below threshold)
• TED (EU, optional)

Every award gets a contract end date and expiry flag (<=6m, <=12m, …), and UK winners get their Companies House number. It uses official APIs only: no HTML scraping, no login, no API key needed.

Who uses it

• B2G sales and bid teams: a pipeline of public contracts ending in the next 6–12 months, with the incumbent supplier.
• Competitor tracking: which buyers your competitors win, and for how much, keyed by company number rather than fuzzy names.
• Market research and analysts: UK and EU award data in one schema for CPV, buyer and value analysis.
• AI agents and automations: call it through the Apify API or MCP server and get structured JSON back.

Quick start (3 steps)

1. Click Start with the prefilled input. It returns up to 25 UK contract awards whose contract ends in the next 12 months, from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder. This first run is free (25 free rows) and usually takes 1–3 minutes.
2. Narrow it down with cpvCodes (e.g. 72 IT services, 45 construction, 85 health) or keywords, and raise maxItems.
3. Export the dataset as CSV, Excel or JSON, or send it to Google Sheets, Slack or your CRM with an integration.

Example row

A real award row from October 2026 (trimmed; full sample in the Output tab):

Field	Value
title	Drawing Document Management Licences and Professional Services
buyerName	Sunderland City Council
source	findATender
awardDate	2026-10-27
value / currency	69,621.50 GBP
supplierName	Symetri Ltd
supplierCompanyNumber	03239798 (supplierMatch: identifier, status Active)
contractStart → contractEnd	2026-10-27 → 2029-10-27 (contractEndSource: notice_text_duration)
monthsToExpiry / expiryFlag	36 / later
noticeUrl	https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/101787-2026

Find contracts expiring in the next 12 months

{"noticeType": "awards", "sources": ["findATender", "contractsFinder"], "expiringWithinMonths": 12,
 "cpvCodes": ["72"], "publishedFrom": "2025-11-01", "maxItems": 500, "linkedNoticeLookups": 50}

A longer date window finds more contracts ending soon (awards from a year or more ago are the ones coming up for renewal). Awards with an unknown end date are left out when expiringWithinMonths is set; clear it to get every award.

Track competitor contract wins by Companies House number

Run awards with your sector's CPV codes or keywords over the last year, then group the dataset by supplierCompanyNumber. Join it to your CRM or to Companies House data on the company number instead of the supplier's name, which varies between notices.

Daily UK tender alerts (Find a Tender + Contracts Finder)

Schedule this input daily (Console › Schedules) and connect Slack, email or Google Sheets:

{"noticeType": "open", "sources": ["findATender", "contractsFinder"], "keywords": ["cyber security", "penetration testing"],
 "publishedFrom": "2026-10-27", "openOnly": true, "maxItems": 100}

How much does it cost?

You pay per row returned, and the first 25 rows of every run are free. Rows that fail validation are never written or charged, and the run stops at your maximum cost per run.

Rows in one run	Charged rows	Cost
25	0	$0.00
100	75	≈ $0.23
1,000	975	≈ $2.93
10,000	9,975	≈ $29.93

Prices: award-record and tender-record $0.003 per row ($3 per 1,000), plus Apify's tiny Actor-start event. Apify's free plan credit covers trial runs. Commercial tender-alert services typically charge a monthly subscription; here you pay only for the rows you pull.

Integrations

• Google Sheets, Slack, email, Zapier, Make, n8n: through Apify integrations on the Actor or a schedule.
• API: POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/notational_bush~uk-eu-contract-awards/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=… with the JSON input.
• AI agents: available through the Apify MCP server, so agents can find and run it.

Input

Field	Default	Notes
noticeType	awards	open (one row per tender lot), awards (one row per award × supplier), or both
sources	Find a Tender, Contracts Finder	findATender, contractsFinder, ted
publishedFrom / publishedTo	today − 90 days / today	Award date for awards, publication date for open notices. Range ≤ 366 days
openOnly	true	Open mode: drop notices past their deadline
cpvCodes, keywords	none	CPV prefix match; keywords are case-insensitive matches in the title or description. Up to 50 each
tedCountries	all	ISO-2 buyer countries for TED
minValue	none	In the notice's own currency
expiringWithinMonths	none (form prefill: 12)	Awards only. 1–60. Unknown end dates are dropped when this is set
maxItems	25	Total across all sources. Maximum 10,000. The first 25 rows of every run are free
linkedNoticeLookups	10	Find a Tender awards only. For awards still missing an end date, look up at most this many earlier notices in the same procurement (about 10 seconds each, because Find a Tender is rate-limited). 0–500; 0 turns it off
companiesHouseApiKey	none	Optional, secret. Your own key, used only as a fallback for dissolved or renamed suppliers

Output

There is one row per award × supplier or per open tender × lot. The fields are: recordId, noticeType, source, noticeUrl, noticeId, publishedAt, buyerName, buyerId, buyerCountry, title, description, cpvCodes, category, procedure, lotId, awardDate, tenderDeadline, estimatedValue, tenderStatus, contractStart, contractEnd, contractEndSource (notice, notice_text, notice_text_duration, model, linked_notice), monthsToExpiry, expiryFlag (expired, <=6m, <=12m, later, unknown), hasRenewalOptions, value, currency, supplierName, supplierScale, supplierCompanyNumber, supplierMatch (identifier, name_exact, name_normalised, name_variant, api, none), supplierCompanyStatus, supplierNationalId, licence, fetchedAt.

Where contractEnd comes from

contractEndSource says how each end date was found, in this order:

1. notice: the structured contract period on the notice itself.
2. notice_text / notice_text_duration: the notice's own text. Either explicit dates ("from 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2029") or an initial term ("initial term of 36 months") added to the stated start, or to the award/signature date when no start is given. A term is used only when exactly one distinct term is found. Extension and option periods are never added.
3. model: off on the public build unless the operator sets a model key. A small language model reads the same text, capped per run, and only when the text mentions a period.
4. linked_notice: Find a Tender only. The contract period published on an earlier notice in the same procurement (usually the tender notice), capped by linkedNoticeLookups.

End dates are the initial term, not the maximum term with extensions. Where a start is estimated from the award date, the end can be some weeks out.

Notices that appear in both Find a Tender and Contracts Finder are deduplicated, and the Find a Tender copy is kept. After the first 25 free rows of each run, you are charged per row: award-record for award rows and tender-record for open-tender rows. Rows that fail validation are never written and never charged.

Companies House matching

Matching uses the free Companies House Free Company Data Product (the monthly bulk CSV). The index is built into the image at build time from the latest monthly file, so rebuild the Actor once a month without the Docker cache to refresh it (Console build option "Use cache" off, or API POST /v2/acts/{id}/builds?version=0.1&useCache=false). A cached build reuses the old snapshot. Each UK supplier goes through these tiers in order:

1. A GB-COH identifier on the notice, if it is a well-formed number found in the live register.
2. An exact name match that is unique.
3. A unique match on a tidied name, after case and punctuation are folded and Limited/Ltd, PLC, &/and and a leading The are normalised.
4. name_variant: the legal-entity part of a longer supplier string, such as "Acme Ltd T/A Acme Services", "Acme Ltd (trading as Acme)" or "Acme Ltd (ACM)". The part must end in a company suffix (Ltd, Limited, PLC, LLP or CIC) and must match uniquely in tier 2 or 3. A sole trader's own name is never looked up.

Names that are ambiguous are left unmatched. A well-formed identifier that isn't in the live register is kept, with the status not-in-live-register. An optional API key adds a lookup fallback for those cases. The 2026 match test on 1,000 real award suppliers found about 70% matched. On the fixed October 2026 sample of 1,141 UK award-supplier rows, the rate is 69.8% (68.1% before the name_variant tier). Most of the rest are NHS trusts, universities and councils (not Companies House companies), sole traders, and brand names without a company suffix.

Personal data

No personal data is collected. The Actor drops contact names, emails and phone numbers, and supplier street addresses. It also removes emails and phone numbers from free text. Suppliers that look like individuals or sole traders are shown as [individual], or [individual] t/a <trading name>.

Licences and attribution

• Find a Tender and Contracts Finder: contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Both API responses name OGL v3.0 as their licence, and both services' terms say most content is Crown copyright published under the OGL.
• TED: © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu. Procurement notices may be freely reused for commercial or non-commercial purposes under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU (TED legal notice).
• Companies House: company numbers and statuses come from the Companies House Free Company Data Product. Companies House places no restriction on how public-register information is used (Companies House, "Our public task, copyright and Crown copyright"). It does not release this product under the OGL. Source: Companies House.

This Actor is not endorsed by Cabinet Office, Companies House or the European Union. Data is provided as is.

Each row includes a licence field naming its source licence.

FAQ

Is this data legal to reuse? Yes. Find a Tender and Contracts Finder data is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0, TED notices may be reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU, and company numbers come from Companies House's free bulk product. Each row names its licence in licence.

How fresh is it? Every run queries the live APIs, so new notices appear as soon as the portals publish them. Companies House matching uses the monthly snapshot built into the Actor.

Why are some contract end dates unknown? Many Find a Tender award notices don't publish a contract period. The Actor reads the term from the notice text and from the earlier tender notice; about half of those stay unknown. TED end dates are known for about 80% of awards.

What's the difference between Find a Tender and Contracts Finder? Find a Tender carries higher-value UK notices (above the procurement thresholds); Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Notices published on both are deduplicated (the Find a Tender copy is kept).

Can I get only new notices? Schedule the Actor with publishedFrom set to the last run's date (or a short window such as the last 1–2 days) and send new rows to your integration.

Does it collect personal data? No. Contact names, emails, phones and street addresses are dropped, and sole traders are shown as [individual].

Known limits (v1)

• Most Find a Tender award notices don't publish a structured contract period. The text parser and linked-notice lookup fill about 40–50% of them (50% on the fixed sample, 42% in the October 2026 live run); the rest stay unknown. TED end dates come from the notice only (about 80% known). Contracts Finder end dates can include extensions, because that is how buyers enter them.
• TED values and lots are aligned per winner on a best-effort basis. Winners on multi-lot notices may list several lots.
• Win history and buyer-side Companies House matching are not included in v1. Neither source API can search by supplier, so win history would need a separate bulk archive.

More from this developer

• UK Company Number Lookup: have supplier names from elsewhere? It matches any list of names to Companies House numbers with the same rules.

Changelog

• 0.1 (Oct 2026): first public release. First 25 rows free per run; small default run (awards ending within 12 months, 25 rows); Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and TED; Companies House matching; contract end dates from notice text and linked notices.