UK Government Contracts & Tenders (Contracts Finder) — with Buyer Contacts

Find UK public-sector contract opportunities and awards from Contracts Finder, the government's official procurement notice service: councils, the NHS, schools, universities, housing associations, police, central government and more. Search by keyword, CPV category, region, value, distance from a postcode and SME suitability, and get back deadlines, values, buyer contact name, email and phone, and who won.

It uses the official Contracts Finder API, published under the Open Government Licence: no scraping, no blocks, no API key.

$2 per 1,000 notices, or $4 per 1,000 with buyer contacts and supplier details.

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Who uses it

• Small businesses and SMEs bidding for public work: a daily feed of open tenders in your trade and region, closing after today.
• Bid writers and tender consultants: opportunities for your clients, with the buyer's contact to ask questions.
• Sales teams: who is buying what, from whom, and when the contract ends. Awarded contracts with an end date are next year's re-tender.
• Market and competitor research: every award in a CPV category, the winning suppliers and the prices paid.

Filters

Filter	Example
Keywords (one search each, merged)	cleaning, grounds maintenance, software development
Status	Open (taking bids, the default), Closed, Awarded
Notice types	Contract (default), Pipeline (planned future buys), Early market engagement
Published on or after / before	2026-09-01, or 7 days. Default: the last 30 days.
Regions	London, North West, Scotland, Wales... (the 12 UK regions)
CPV codes	90910000 (cleaning), 72 (all IT services), 45000000 (construction)
Minimum / maximum value (£)	10000 to 250000
Near postcode + radius	LS1 4DT, 20 miles
Only SME-suitable / VCSE-suitable	the buyer's own suitability flags
Buyer name contains	NHS, Council, University
Deadline on or after	skip tenders closing too soon
Add buyer contacts and suppliers	fetches each notice in full (see pricing)

Contracts Finder answers at most 1,000 notices per query. This actor splits large date ranges automatically, so you can pull years of awards in one run.

Example input

Open cleaning tenders from the last 14 days, with buyer contacts:

{
  "keywords": ["cleaning"],
  "statuses": ["Open"],
  "publishedFrom": "14 days",
  "includeContactDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 200
}

Every IT contract awarded in London this year, over £50k:

{
  "statuses": ["Awarded"],
  "cpvCodes": ["72"],
  "regions": ["London"],
  "minValue": 50000,
  "publishedFrom": "2026-01-01",
  "maxItems": 5000
}

Output

One row per notice. Download it as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML, or read it through the API. This row is from a real run on 22 Oct 2026 (the description is shortened here):

{
  "noticeId": "1a9512f5-a1e3-4330-be0b-78ab283abacb",
  "title": "CA18592 - The Dean Trust Tender for Cleaning Services",
  "description": "The Dean Trust is a multi-academy trust ... seeking a contractor to provide cleaning ...",
  "noticeType": "Contract",
  "noticeStatus": "Open",
  "buyerName": "The Dean Trust",
  "publishedDate": "2026-10-21T13:03:44+01:00",
  "deadlineDate": "2026-12-04T10:00:00Z",
  "contractStart": "2027-09-01",
  "contractEnd": "2030-08-31",
  "valueLow": 4648437,
  "valueHigh": 4648437,
  "cpvCodes": "90919300",
  "cpvDescription": "School cleaning services",
  "regions": "Any region",
  "postcode": "M33 5BP",
  "suitableForSme": true,
  "noticeUrl": "https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1a9512f5-a1e3-4330-be0b-78ab283abacb",
  "hasContactDetails": true,
  "buyerEmail": "support@multiquote.com"
}

With Add buyer contacts and suppliers on, each row also gets buyerContactName, buyerEmail, buyerPhone, buyerAddress, buyerPostcode, buyerWebsite, procedureType, isFrameworkAgreement, suppliers (name and value of each award) and supplierAddresses. Awarded notices always carry awardedDate, awardedValue, awardedSupplier and whether it went to an SME or VCSE.

The OUTPUT record in the key-value store gives the query, notices delivered, events charged, API calls made, any day that held more than 1,000 notices, and why the run stopped.

Pricing

Event	Price
Notice returned	$0.002 ($2 per 1,000)
Notice with buyer contacts	$0.004 ($4 per 1,000), charged instead of the above when the contacts option is on
Actor start	Apify's minimum ($0.00005 per run)

You are charged only for notices delivered, never past Maximum results or your run's spending limit.

Good to know

• Contracts Finder is the UK government's service for public contract notices in England (plus central-government and some UK-wide buyers). It currently carries around 150-200 new notices a day. Larger above-threshold procurements, and most Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish ones, are also or only advertised on Find a Tender and the devolved portals, which this actor does not cover.
• Many tenders are run through e-procurement portals, so the "buyer email" is sometimes the portal's support address. The description usually says where to register.
• Values are the buyer's estimate unless the notice is awarded.
• Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This actor is independent and not endorsed by Crown Commercial Service or the Cabinet Office.

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