SiteVerdict — Public Tenders & Contracts Finder (UK, EU)

Every UK and EU public-sector opportunity in one clean feed — with daily "new tender" alerts and a closing-soon digest.

One search covers Find a Tender (all UK notices under the Procurement Act 2023), Contracts Finder (England, below-threshold and legacy procurements), Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and the EU's TED (Tenders Electronic Daily). Results come back in one normalised, OCDS-based format: title, buyer, value, CPV codes with labels, location, procedure, deadline, documents, notice link, lots and award winners. Cross-posted duplicates are merged.

Uses only the official, open government APIs. No logins, no scraping of web pages, no proxies.

Who it is for

• SMEs and bid teams who want every relevant tender without checking five portals.
• Bid writers and consultancies monitoring several sectors or clients.
• Sales and market-intelligence teams tracking who wins what (awards, incumbents, contract values).
• Developers and AI agents who need a clean procurement feed (also available as an MCP tool).

What you can do

Need	How
Find open tenders for your services	keywords, cpvCodes or cpvKeywords + openOnly
Don't know CPV codes?	cpvKeywords: ["cleaning", "website"] looks them up in the official CPV 2008 vocabulary (9,454 codes)
Only your area	regions ("London", "Scotland", "UKI3", "TLM", "DE1") or postcodes ("M", "LS1")
Right-sized contracts	minValue / maxValue
Specific buyers	buyers: ["NHS", "Ministry of Defence"]
Daily alerts	mode: "monitor" on a daily schedule — only notices you have not seen before
Weekly "closing soon" email	mode: "closingSoon" + closingWithinDays: 7 → markdown digest in the DIGEST.md record
Rank by fit	profileKeywords + profileExcludeKeywords → 0–100 relevance score, sortBy: "relevance"
Who won what	noticeTypes: ["award"] → supplier organisations and awarded values

Sources and coverage

Source	What it adds	Notes
Find a Tender (Cabinet Office, Central Digital Platform)	All UK notices under the Procurement Act 2023 (UK1–UK17 notices, from 24 Feb 2025), plus above-threshold notices under the old regulations and Scottish above-threshold notices	Queried by update date; we deliberately do not use its stages filter (see FAQ)
Contracts Finder	England: below-threshold opportunities and awards, and procurements started under the old regulations (before 24 Feb 2025)	Strict rate limit — the Actor paces itself
Public Contracts Scotland	Scottish below-threshold "website" notices and Scottish-regime notices	Month-level API; above-threshold Scottish notices are also on Find a Tender and are merged
Sell2Wales	Welsh below-threshold notices	Same platform as PCS. On 11 Oct 2026 its list API returned HTTP 500 for every query; the Actor detects this, skips it and reports it in the run summary
TED (Publications Office of the EU)	EU/EEA above-threshold notices in eForms: contract notices, awards, prior information, modifications	Keyword search uses TED's own full-text search across all languages

UK notices stopped going to TED after Brexit (2021), so UK and EU results do not overlap.

Input examples

Open digital/IT tenders in London and the South East, £25k–£500k

{
  "sources": ["fts", "contractsFinder"],
  "keywords": ["website", "software", "digital"],
  "regions": ["London", "South East"],
  "minValue": 25000,
  "maxValue": 500000,
  "openOnly": true,
  "lookbackDays": 14
}

Daily alert (schedule it every morning)

{
  "mode": "monitor",
  "monitorKey": "cleaning-scotland",
  "sources": ["fts", "scotland"],
  "cpvKeywords": ["cleaning"],
  "regions": ["Scotland"],
  "noticeTypes": ["tender", "planning"]
}

Closing-soon digest across the UK and Ireland

{
  "mode": "closingSoon",
  "closingWithinDays": 7,
  "sources": ["fts", "contractsFinder", "scotland", "ted"],
  "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
  "tedCountries": ["IE"]
}

Who won NHS cleaning contracts this quarter

{
  "noticeTypes": ["award"],
  "buyers": ["NHS"],
  "cpvKeywords": ["cleaning"],
  "publishedFrom": "2026-07-01",
  "sources": ["fts", "contractsFinder", "scotland"]
}

Try it offline first with "useSampleData": true (bundled recorded responses, no network, no charges).

Output

One dataset item per notice (trimmed example from a live run on 11 Oct 2026):

{
  "uid": "fts:095671-2026",
  "source": "fts",
  "sourceName": "Find a Tender (UK)",
  "id": "095671-2026",
  "ocid": "ocds-h6vhtk-077751",
  "noticeType": "tender",
  "noticeTypeCode": "UK4",
  "noticeTypeLabel": "Tender notice",
  "status": "active",
  "title": "Chelmsford College Website tender",
  "description": "The College is looking for a company to build a new website in ASP.net …",
  "buyer": { "name": "Chelmsford College", "id": "GB-PPON-PPHT-3744-XBMQ", "identifiers": [{ "scheme": "GB-PPON", "id": "PPHT-3744-XBMQ" }], "address": { "locality": "Chelmsford", "region": "UKH36", "postcode": "CM2 0JQ", "country": "United Kingdom" }, "type": "Public authority - sub-central government" },
  "value": { "amount": null, "amountMin": null, "currency": null },
  "cpv": [{ "code": "72413000", "label": "World wide web (www) site design services" }],
  "location": { "countries": ["United Kingdom"], "nutsCodes": ["UKH3", "UKH36"], "postcodes": ["CM2 0JQ"] },
  "procedure": { "method": "open", "details": "Below threshold - open competition", "legalBasis": "2023/54", "regime": "Procurement Act 2023", "aboveThreshold": false, "smeSuitable": true },
  "publishedDate": "2026-10-09T12:16:49.000Z",
  "deadline": "2026-11-06T23:59:59.000Z",
  "deadlineType": "tender",
  "daysUntilDeadline": 26.7,
  "isOpen": true,
  "documents": [{ "type": "biddingDocuments", "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/A-23859" }],
  "noticeUrl": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/095671-2026",
  "awards": [],
  "lots": [],
  "relevance": { "score": 41, "matchedKeywords": ["website"], "matchedCpv": [], "excludedBy": [] },
  "alsoPublishedOn": [],
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0 — https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information from Find a Tender, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0."
}

Also written to the run's key-value store:

• OUTPUT — run summary: per-source status, records fetched, why notices were filtered out, CPV codes used, duplicates merged, warnings, attribution.
• DIGEST.md — a ready-to-send markdown digest (paste into email, Slack or Teams, or send it with an Apify integration/webhook).
• DIGEST — the same digest as JSON, including a closing-soon list.

Dataset views: Overview, Closing soon, Awards, Relevance.

Monitoring (daily alerts)

1. Set mode: "monitor" and give the alert a monitorKey (e.g. "it-london").
2. Schedule the Actor daily (Apify Console → Schedules).
3. Each run continues from the previous run (with one day of overlap) and outputs only notices it has not sent before, so you are charged only for new ones. State is kept in the named key-value store siteverdict-public-tenders-state; each monitorKey is independent.
4. By default you get one alert per procurement and stage (tender, then award). Set alertOnUpdates: true to be alerted on every change notice too.

Relevance ranking

Score 0–100 per notice, fully transparent: keyword in title +30, in description/lots +12, in CPV labels +6 (per keyword); a CPV code match +25; still open +5. Any profileExcludeKeywords hit sets the score to 0. Use minRelevance to drop weak matches.

FAQ

Why not use Find a Tender's own stages filter? We tested it on 11 Oct 2026: with stages=tender it returned only notices under the old regulations and silently dropped every Procurement Act 2023 notice (15 results vs 198 tender-stage notices actually published that week). So we fetch by date and filter stages ourselves. It is slower but complete.

Do values get converted between currencies? No. Value filters compare in each notice's own currency (GBP for UK sources, mostly EUR for TED, sometimes SEK, PLN etc.).

Are TED titles in English? title is the buyer's original title. headline is TED's translated headline ("Country – CPV – title") in your tedLanguage. Descriptions are in the original language.

How far back can I search? Any date range. UK APIs only filter by date, so long windows mean more pages: about 300–450 Find a Tender records per weekday (100 per page). Raise maxPagesPerSource for long ranges; the summary tells you if a source was truncated.

What counts as a duplicate? The same procurement on two platforms (e.g. a Scottish tender on both PCS and Find a Tender, linked by its PCS reference), or the same title + buyer + stage. The best source is kept and the others are listed in alsoPublishedOn.

Is a notice "open" if it has no deadline? isOpen is null when no deadline is published; openOnly and closingWithinDays exclude those.

Limits

• Speed is set by the sources' rate limits. Contracts Finder locks clients out for 2 minutes after about 12 rapid requests, and Find a Tender asks clients to back off (HTTP 429, Retry-After 120 s) after bursts. The Actor waits as asked, so a 45-day closing-soon scan can take several minutes.
• Sell2Wales was down (HTTP 500) when this version was built. It is skipped automatically while that lasts.
• Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales only filter by month and notice type, so the Actor trims to your dates.
• TED keyword matching happens on TED's side (all languages, full text), so it can be broader than the UK keyword matching (title, description, lots, CPV labels).
• Keyword → CPV lookup matches words in official CPV labels, plus a small curated synonym list (e.g. website, cyber security, cloud, AI). Check OUTPUT.cpvLookup to see which codes were used.
• Documents are links only. Many buyers host tender packs on their own e-tendering portals, which may need a free supplier registration.

Compliance, sources and licences

• Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales: Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Each item carries its own licence and attribution.
• TED: © European Union, reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU (reuse of Commission documents). CPV 2008 labels come from the EU eForms SDK code list (OP-TED), under the same reuse policy.
• Only official open APIs are used, with an honest User-Agent and polite pacing. No logins, CAPTCHAs, paywalls or proxy rotation.
• Personal data is off by default. Buyer contact names, emails and phone numbers are excluded unless you set includeContactDetails: true. If you do, they are output exactly as the buyer published them, and you are responsible under UK GDPR and PECR: assess legitimate interest, and do not use them for unsolicited marketing to individuals. Award winners are organisations as published by the buyer (a sole trader's trading name can be a person's name, so treat it with care).
• Not legal, financial or procurement advice. Always read the official notice and documents before bidding. Data is as published by the sources, with dates shown on each notice.

Pricing

Pay per event: you pay for each notice saved to the dataset (event notice). Nothing is charged for errors, empty runs, sample-data runs or notices skipped as already seen in monitor mode. The run stops cleanly when your maximum charge per run is reached. See PRICING.md.