📜 UK Contracts Finder Scraper

🚀 Export UK public sector contract notices in seconds. Filter tenders, awards, and planning notices by keyword and stage. No API key, no registration, no manual CSV wrangling.

The UK Contracts Finder Scraper pulls live procurement notices from the official Contracts Finder OCDS feed and returns 32 fields per record, covering buyer identity, CPV classification, tender value, deadlines, award suppliers, delivery addresses, SME suitability, and document links. The source data is published by the UK Cabinet Office and is the canonical reference for public sector opportunities valued over £12,000 (£30,000 for central government).

Every UK central government department, local authority, NHS trust, and arm's-length body posts here. The feed includes contracts at every stage of the procurement lifecycle, from early planning notices through live tenders to awarded contracts and implementation updates. This Actor returns clean JSON in under a minute, with filters that match the same parameters the official search UI uses.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Bid managers, procurement analysts, supplier intelligence teams, government affairs, journalists, market research firms, fintech and govtech vendors	New business pipelines, supplier qualification, public spending audits, competitor win-loss tracking, sector market sizing, journalism on government contracts

📋 What the UK Contracts Finder Scraper does

Several filtering workflows in a single run:

• 🔍 Keyword search. Match any phrase across title and description, like software, construction, or cyber security.
• 🪜 Stage filter. Choose tender, award, planning, or implementation, alone or in combination.
• 💷 Value capture. Pull contract value amount and currency where the buyer has disclosed it.
• 🏷️ CPV codes. Both main and additional Common Procurement Vocabulary classifications.
• 🏢 Buyer and supplier identity. Buyer name and OCID, plus awarded supplier name and ID when the notice is an award.

Each record includes the OCID, release ID, release date, full title and description, buyer details, procurement method, status, tender period, award details, CPV codes with descriptions, delivery addresses, SME and VCSE suitability flags, document links, and party counts.

💡 Why it matters: UK public sector spending exceeds £300 billion a year. Contracts Finder is the single place every notice lands. Building your own scraper means parsing the OCDS spec, handling pagination, and tracking changes across stages. This Actor returns a flat, query-ready table on every run.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: buyerId, buyerName, cpvCodes, cpvDescriptions, deliveryAddresses, description, documents, initiationType, language, mainProcurementCategory, ocid, partiesCount, procurementMethod, procurementMethodDetails, releaseDate, releaseId, scrapedAt, suitableForSmes, suitableForVcse, tags, tenderEndDate, tenderStatus, title, url, valueAmount, valueCurrency. All 26 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the UK Contracts Finder Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Enter a keyword (or leave empty), pick the stages you want, and set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Contracts Finder, the UK Cabinet Office, or any government body. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open data published under the Open Government Licence is collected.

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