UK Government Tenders Scraper: Find a Tender & Contracts Finder

Get new UK government tenders and contract awards from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder as clean, filterable data, every day.

Who it's for

• Bid writers and SMEs looking for new public sector contracts to bid on
• Sales teams tracking which public bodies are buying (and who won awards)
• Analysts researching UK public procurement by CPV code, region or value

Sample output

source	title	buyerName	valueGBP	deadline
Find a Tender	UKRI-6349 UPLiFT Refrigerant-based Helium Gas Cooler	UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)	140000	2026-12-17T11:00:00Z
Find a Tender	Client Transport Services 2026 - 2034 - SEND	Surrey County Council	–	–
Find a Tender	Operation of RIDC Melton	NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED	29386811	–

Real rows from a test run (shortened; the full output has more fields).

Price per 1,000 results

Main event: apify-default-dataset-item at $0.003 each, so 1,000 results = $3.00. See the Pricing tab for the current prices.

Input example

{
  "sources": [
    "findATender",
    "contractsFinder"
  ],
  "daysBack": 2,
  "maxResults": 20
}

Get every UK public sector tender, contract award and pipeline notice in one clean dataset. The data comes straight from the government's official Find a Tender (FTS) and Contracts Finder OCDS APIs.

• No login, no API key, no browser automation.
• It doesn't break when a website layout changes.

Ready-made reports

Don't want to run a scraper? Get the results as a ready report:

• Free preview of the October digest: https://payhip.com/b/8hSA7
• £19 sector digests (IT & Digital, Construction): https://payhip.com/UKIndustryBills
• Free weekly newsletter, UK Industry & Bills: https://ukindustryandbills.substack.com

What you get

Each notice comes back as one flat record:

Group	Fields
Notice	title, description, notice type (planning / tender / award / contract), status, published date, link to the official notice
Value and dates	bid deadline, estimated or awarded value in GBP, contract start and end
Classification	CPV codes, procurement method, category
Organisations	Buyer organisation, locality, postcode, NUTS/ITL region; supplier organisations on award notices
Housekeeping	a source flag, and duplicates removed across both portals

Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, or via the API, webhooks, Make, Zapier or n8n.

New: EU tenders (TED)

Add "ted" to Sources to include notices from Tenders Electronic Daily, the EU's official procurement journal, via the public TED Search API (no key). Filter by buyer country. TED records carry estimatedValue (estimated procurement value) and, on award notices, awardValue, plus currency (usually EUR) instead of valueGBP. The TED deadline is the tender submission deadline, or the request-to-participate deadline for restricted procedures.

Who it's for: more detail

• Bid and sales teams: a daily alert for new tenders in your CPV codes, value band and region.
• Agencies and consultancies: track the councils, NHS trusts and universities you sell to.
• Market research: see who is winning which contracts and at what value. Uses award notices.
• CRM and BI: schedule a run every morning and push it into HubSpot, Sheets or BigQuery.

Input

Field	What it does	Default
Sources	Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, and optionally EU TED	UK both
TED buyer countries	ISO-3 codes, e.g. DEU, FRA, IRL (TED only)	all
Days back	Notices updated or published in the last N days	2
Keywords	Whole-word match on title (+ description)	none
Match title only	Stricter keyword matching	off
CPV prefixes	e.g. 72 IT services, 45 construction, 79 business services	none
Minimum value (GBP)	Skip small notices	0
Only open opportunities	Deadline still in the future	off
Notice types	planning, tender, award, contract…	all
Max results	Hard cap per run	200

Example: open IT tenders from the last 3 days

{"daysBack":3,"keywords":["software","digital","cloud","data","IT"],"matchTitleOnly":true,"onlyOpen":true,"noticeTypes":["tender"]}

Example output (real sample)

source	title	buyerName	valueGBP	deadline	cpvCodes
Contracts Finder	Short Breaks for 1324785	East Riding of Yorkshire Council	4000	2026-08-21	85000000
Find a Tender	Estate Agency Services for Herefordshire Council's Commerci…	Herefordshire Council	450000	2026-10-26	–
Contracts Finder	021352 - Videography for the Knowsley Business Awards	Knowsley Council	52725	2026-09-03	79416200, 79952000

Output

Each run writes one dataset item per matching notice (Output tab → Tenders view, plus an Awards & suppliers view), and a RUN_SUMMARY record in the key-value store with how many notices were scanned and output.

Sample item

{
  "source": "Contracts Finder",
  "ocid": "ocds-b5fd17-9fe0d98b-c67c-4c82-98f9-422d34c41247",
  "noticeId": "e3ca1e71-248e-476f-a6fb-9b7f78db2fea-918306",
  "url": "https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/e3ca1e71-248e-476f-a6fb-9b7f78db2fea",
  "title": "Short Breaks for 1324785",
  "description": "East Riding of Yorkshire Council is searching for a short breaks provider to support our young person.They do not require personal care within their short br...",
  "noticeTypes": [
    "award"
  ],
  "status": "complete",
  "publishedDate": "2026-10-19T19:03:46+01:00",
  "deadline": "2026-08-21T12:00:00+01:00",
  "isOpen": false,
  "valueGBP": 4000,
  "awardValueGBP": 4000,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "cpvCodes": [
    "85000000"
  ],
  "procurementMethod": "selective",
  "category": "services",
  "contractStart": "2026-10-26T00:00:00Z",
  "contractEnd": "2027-01-04T23:59:59Z",
  "buyerName": "East Riding of Yorkshire Council",
  "buyerId": "GB-CFS-188336",
  "buyerLocality": "Beverley",
  "buyerPostcode": "HU17 9BA",
  "region": "ENG",
  "supplierNames": [
    "Barnardo's DSI Service"
  ],
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0"
}

Pricing

In plain words: $3 per 1,000 notices returned ($0.003 each). A daily feed of new UK tenders for a few keywords or CPV codes usually costs a few cents a day.

Pay per result: you pay a small fixed price per notice returned (one dataset item = one result). The per-result price is shown on the Store page. Filtering happens before billing, so you never pay for notices you filtered out.

Data, licence and privacy

• Source: Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Commercial reuse is allowed with attribution, which each record carries.
• No personal data by design:
  • Contact names, emails and phone numbers are never returned.
  • Emails and phone numbers that appear inside free-text descriptions are redacted.
  • Only organisation-level data is output.
• Gentle on the source: official APIs only, with polite rate limiting and retries.

Known limits

• Contracts Finder's search API returns up to 100 notices per query. The actor walks the window in 6-hour slices and logs a warning if a slice hits the cap.
• Values are taken from tender, lot or award fields. Some notices publish no value.

FAQ

• Is this the same data as the government websites? Yes. It's the same notices, from the official machine-readable feeds.
• Does it cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland? It covers what is published to Find a Tender, which since Feb 2025 includes below-threshold notices outside Scotland. Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales-only notices aren't included yet.
• Can I get only new notices each day? Schedule it daily with daysBack: 1. A built-in "new since last run" mode is on the roadmap.

Keywords: UK tenders API, Find a Tender scraper, Contracts Finder API, public procurement data UK, government contracts UK, OCDS UK, bid alerts, CPV tenders, NHS tenders, council tenders.

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