UK Contracts Finder — tenders and contract awards, official API

Get UK public sector tenders, planning notices and contract awards from GOV.UK's Contracts Finder as clean, structured JSON or CSV. Filter by keyword, CPV code, buyer, region, value and date, and run it daily to receive only new opportunities.

Why this Actor

• Official source, no key. Uses the Cabinet Office's public Contracts Finder OCDS API. No browser, no proxies, no API key.
• Opportunities and awards in one place. Choose tender (open bids), award (who won, for how much) and/or planning (early market engagement).
• Filters the API itself lacks. The official API only filters by date and stage. This Actor adds keywords, CPV codes (or branches such as 72 = IT services), buyer name, delivery region, min/max value, SME-suitable and open-for-bids-only.
• Incremental monitoring. Set Published in the last N days and schedule the Actor daily. Notices are de-duplicated and paginated automatically.
• Reliable. Retries on rate limits (honours Retry-After) and server errors, clear errors for bad parameters.
• No personal data. Buyer contact names, e-mails and phone numbers are deliberately not output.

Output

Field	Example
noticeId, ocid	Unique release id and OCDS process id
noticeType, stage	tender, tenderAmendment, award, awardUpdate, planning; stage = tender / award / planning
publishedDate, publishedAt	2026-10-01, full timestamp
title, description	Notice title and text (first 2,000 characters)
status	active, complete…
buyerName, buyerLocality, buyerPostcode, buyerWebsite	East Sussex County Council, Lewes, BN7 1UE
region, deliveryPostcode	Delivery region / postcode when stated
cpvCodes, cpvDescription, mainCategory	["72000000"], services
procurementMethod	Open procedure
valueAmount, currency	Tender value (minimum value if that is all that is published); total awarded value on award notices. null when not published
awardedSuppliers, awardedSupplierDetails, awardDate	Winners with company size (sme / large) on award notices
tenderDeadline, contractStart, contractEnd	ISO timestamps
suitableForSme, suitableForVcse	true / false
noticeUrl	Link to the official notice

{
  "noticeId": "b0a130a3-4b89-4587-bc61-34ba792f39bd-916396",
  "noticeType": "award",
  "stage": "award",
  "publishedDate": "2026-10-02",
  "title": "ENHT - Treatment Centre Theatre 1 and 2 renovation works, out of hours",
  "buyerName": "East and North Hertfordshire Teaching Hospital NHS Trust",
  "region": "England",
  "cpvCodes": ["45453100"],
  "mainCategory": "works",
  "valueAmount": 40172,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "awardedSuppliers": ["Wemh Group LTD"],
  "awardDate": "2026-10-02",
  "noticeUrl": "https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b0a130a3-4b89-4587-bc61-34ba792f39bd"
}

Input examples

New IT tenders from the last 3 days that are still open and suit SMEs:

{ "stages": ["tender"], "cpvCodes": ["72"], "sinceDays": 3, "openOnly": true, "smeOnly": true }

NHS contract awards worth £100k+ since 1 September:

{ "stages": ["award"], "buyerNames": ["NHS"], "minValue": 100000, "sinceDate": "2026-09-01", "maxItems": 1000 }

Use cases

• Bid teams and SMEs: a daily list of new tenders matching your keywords and CPV codes.
• Competitor and market research: who wins which contracts, and for how much.
• Pairing with EU TED data for a full UK + EU tender feed.
• Feeding procurement data to dashboards, spreadsheets or AI agents (works via the Apify MCP server).

Limits

• Filtering by keyword, CPV, buyer, region and value happens after download, so very narrow filters over long date ranges read many notices. Keep the date range sensible for scheduled runs.
• valueAmount and region are only present when the buyer published them.
• Covers notices published on Contracts Finder (England, plus UK-wide and devolved authorities that use it); Find a Tender above-threshold notices are not included.
• maxItems defaults to 100; raise it for bulk runs.
• Not affiliated with the UK Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The original notices on Contracts Finder remain the legal reference.

Pricing

Free to use — you only pay Apify's standard platform usage, which is tiny because this Actor calls an official API directly (no browser, no proxies).