🏛 Contracts Finder UK Tenders Scraper

🚀 Get UK public sector tenders and contract awards in seconds. Title, CPV classification, value, status, buyer, dates and delivery region from the official Contracts Finder OCDS API.

🕒 Last updated 2026-05-27 · 📊 28 fields per record · All UK central + local government · Full OCDS schema

The UK's Cabinet Office publishes every public-sector tender on Contracts Finder under the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS). This scraper wraps the live OCDS endpoint and returns clean, structured records ready for Power BI, Tableau or your own procurement intelligence platform.

Every record carries the tender title, CPV procurement code, value, currency, buyer organisation, tender and contract periods, delivery region and award metadata. Filter by published date range to keep your dataset incremental.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
UK govtech vendors	Track upcoming tenders by CPV code
Procurement consultants	Build comparable-deal tables for clients
Civic-tech researchers	Map public spending by buyer and category
Compliance teams	Audit framework call-offs and award timing
Data engineers	Pipe OCDS data into your procurement warehouse

📋 What the Contracts Finder UK Tenders Scraper does

• Calls the official OCDS /Published/Notices/OCDS/Search endpoint
• Handles cursor pagination automatically
• Returns full tender object: title, value, CPV, dates, buyer, delivery region, awards
• Filters by publishedFrom and publishedTo for incremental pulls
• Streams to data / data / data / data

💡 Why it matters: OCDS is the gold-standard procurement output. Pulling it daily gives you a real-time view of every UK public-sector opportunity worth competing for.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description
maxItems	integer	Cap on records returned (free plan: 10)
publishedFrom	string	ISO date YYYY-MM-DD
publishedTo	string	ISO date YYYY-MM-DD

{ "maxItems": 50 }

{ "publishedFrom": "2026-05-01", "publishedTo": "2026-05-26", "maxItems": 500 }

⚠️ Good to Know: the OCDS API paginates at 100 per page via cursor URLs. The actor handles cursors transparently.

📊 Output

Field	Description
📛 title / description / status	Tender headline
🆔 tenderId / ocid / releaseId	Identifiers
🏷 tags	OCDS release tags (tender, award, contract)
💰 value / currency	Tender value
📂 cpvCode / cpvDescription	CPV classification
🛠 procurementMethod / procurementMethodDetails / suitability	Method metadata
📅 tenderStart / tenderEnd / contractStart / contractEnd	Date periods
📍 deliveryRegion / deliveryPostalCode / deliveryCountry	Where work is delivered
🏢 buyerName / buyerId	Procuring organisation
🏆 awardValue / awardDate	Award metadata if released
📅 publishedDate	OCDS publication date
🔗 sourceUrl	Contracts Finder public notice URL
🕒 scrapedAt	ISO timestamp

✨ Why choose this Actor

• 🆓 UK govt open data, no auth required
• 📡 Direct hit on the OCDS endpoint, OCDS 1.1 compliant
• 🧭 Cursor pagination handled automatically
• 📑 Includes CPV codes for procurement segmentation
• 📦 Get as data

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Setup time
Daily data downloads from gov.uk	Free	Bulk only	Hours
Direct OCDS API integration	Free	Full	Code required
ParseForge Contracts Finder Scraper	Pay-per-result	Full + structured	Minutes

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account (includes $5 credit).
2. Open the Contracts Finder UK Tenders Scraper.
3. Set publishedFrom / publishedTo and maxItems.
4. Click Start and access data / data / data / data.
5. Schedule daily for an incremental feed.

💼 Business use cases

Bid scouting - alert your sales team when a CPV-coded tender matches your portfolio.

Procurement analytics - chart UK public spending by buyer or category.

Compliance monitoring - track framework call-offs and verify timing requirements.

Market intelligence - benchmark competitors' winning bid sizes.

🔌 Automating Contracts Finder UK Tenders Scraper

Hook into Make, Zapier, n8n, Airbyte, Pipedream, Slack, Google Drive, GitHub Actions or any HTTP webhook.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

• Research: academic analysis of UK procurement policy.
• Personal: track which buyers fund local civic projects.
• Non-profit: support transparency and open-government initiatives.
• Experimentation: train NLP on tender descriptions for opportunity matching.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Is Contracts Finder data public? Yes, under the UK Open Government Licence v3.

What's OCDS? Open Contracting Data Standard - a data schema for procurement transparency.

Does the actor handle pagination? Yes, via OCDS cursor URLs.

Can I filter by CPV code? The OCDS search API doesn't support CPV filtering server-side. Filter client-side on the output.

Does the actor include awards? Awards are returned in the awards array of each release.

How current is the data? Contracts Finder is updated continuously; the actor returns whatever the API serves at run time.

Can I get historical data? Set publishedFrom to capture any historical window.

Are local authorities included? Yes - Contracts Finder covers central and local UK government.

Are EU tenders covered? EU procurement is on TED. This actor focuses on UK Contracts Finder.

Is there a daily access cap? No formal cap; OCDS expects polite usage.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify, Make, Zapier, n8n, Pipedream, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Drive, Power Automate, AWS Lambda, REST webhook.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with the UK Cabinet Office or Contracts Finder. Only publicly available open data is collected.