UK Tenders Scraper: Contracts Finder & Find a Tender Alerts

One feed for every UK public-sector tender. Get daily alerts for new opportunities in your CPV codes from both Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, including Procurement Act 2023 notices. Plus, see who won what. Data comes from the official OCDS APIs under the Open Government Licence.

Use it to:

• 🔔 Get daily tender alerts for SMEs. For example, stages: ["tender"], cpvPrefixes: ["72"], smeOnly: true.
• 🏗️ Track public work for construction and FM firms worth at least £100k (minValue).
• 🏆 Watch competitor awards with stages: ["award"] and keywords.
• 🤝 Help bid writers and consultants with one State key per client.

Why this Actor:

• It merges both portals into one feed.
• It only returns notices it hasn't returned before.
• It removes contact-person details and email addresses.

Example inputs

Open tenders in IT services (CPV 72) and software (CPV 48) from the last 2 days:

{ "stages": ["tender"], "cpvPrefixes": ["72", "48"], "lookbackDays": 2 }

SME-suitable construction tenders worth at least £100k, Contracts Finder only:

{ "sources": ["contracts-finder"], "stages": ["tender"], "cpvPrefixes": ["45"], "minValue": 100000, "smeOnly": true }

Contract awards that mention "cleaning", used to track competitors:

{ "stages": ["award"], "keywords": ["cleaning"], "stateKey": "cleaning-awards" }

IT tenders suitable for SMEs, daily alert:

{"stages": ["tender"], "cpvPrefixes": ["72"], "smeOnly": true, "stateKey": "it-sme"}

Output (one row per notice release)

source, ocid, releaseId, releaseDate, tags, stage (planning|tender|award), stages, title, description, status, buyerName, buyerId, buyerLocality, buyerRegion, buyerCountry, cpvCodes, cpvDescription, mainCategory, procurementMethod, valueAmount, valueCurrency, tenderDeadline, contractStart, contractEnd, suitableForSme, awardedSuppliers, awardValue, url

Personal contact details are removed. Contact-person fields are dropped, and email addresses and phone numbers are stripped from descriptions.

Pricing (pay per event)

• $0.005 per run start
• $0.005 per notice returned

Notes

• An updated notice (for example an amendment) is a new release, so it comes back as a new row with the same ocid.
• Contracts Finder filters on published date and Find a Tender on updated date.
• stage is the notice's most advanced stage (award > tender > planning). stages lists every stage it belongs to: Find a Tender often tags open tenders as both planning and tender, so stage is tender and stages is ["planning", "tender"]. The stages filter returns a notice if any of its stages match, so you can select several stages at once.

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🕸️ Part of the Arachne toolkit: official open-data feeds turned into clean, ready-to-use datasets. More Arachne Actors: apify.com/rhymed_santolina.