UK Public Sector Tenders

Find new UK government and public sector tenders from Contracts Finder by keyword, value and SME suitability. Get title, description, buyer, contact email, value, CPV code and deadline for each matching opportunity: a daily lead feed for B2B suppliers, fintech and payments companies.

How it works

Uses the official Contracts Finder OCDS search API (no key), published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Keyword filtering is done by the Actor on title, description and CPV text. Note: since the Procurement Act 2023 (Feb 2025), many above-threshold tenders are published on Find a Tender instead; Contracts Finder still carries many below-threshold and local opportunities. API errors are reported as ok: false rows.

Output

title, buyerName, valueGbp, deadline, published, cpv, cpvDescription, smeSuitable, buyerContactEmail, matchedKeywords, url, ok

Pricing (pay-per-event)

• tender: $0.002 per result ($2 / 1,000). Platform usage is included; you pay only for results.

Example input

{
  "keywords": [
    "payment",
    "card",
    "cashless",
    "banking"
  ],
  "publishedWithinDays": 30,
  "smeSuitableOnly": true
}

Example output

{
  "title": "Card payment services for council car parks",
  "buyerName": "Leeds City Council",
  "valueGbp": 250000,
  "deadline": "2026-11-02T12:00:00Z",
  "published": "2026-10-12T10:00:00Z",
  "cpv": "66110000",
  "cpvDescription": "Banking services",
  "smeSuitable": true,
  "buyerContactEmail": "procurement@example.gov.uk",
  "matchedKeywords": [
    "payment"
  ],
  "url": "https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/...",
  "ok": true
}

Use in Clay, Zapier, Make, n8n or Pipedream

All five connect to Apify through their official Apify integrations, using your own Apify API token (Apify Console > Settings > API & Integrations). Runs bill to your Apify account at this Actor's pay-per-event price.

• Clay: save this Actor's input as an Apify task and copy it as JSON. In your Clay table, add the Run Apify Actor enrichment, choose it and paste the JSON into Input Data, mapping Clay columns into the fields. To pull a finished run into a new table, use the Import data from Apify Actor source.
• Zapier: use the Apify Run Actor action, or the Finished Actor run trigger followed by Fetch dataset items. Synchronous runs in Zapier stop after 30 seconds, so use the trigger for big batches.
• Make: add the Apify Run an Actor module with Run synchronously set to Yes, then Get Dataset Items with the run's dataset ID. For longer runs, use the Watch Actor Runs trigger.
• n8n: install the Apify node (@apify/n8n-nodes-apify, or search "Apify" on n8n Cloud) and use Run an Actor and get dataset.
• Pipedream: add the Apify app's Run Actor action, or Run Task Synchronously on one of this Actor's public example tasks (or your own saved task) to get the dataset items back in one step. For big batches, start from the New Finished Actor Run or New Finished Task Run trigger, then Get Dataset Items.
• Any HTTP tool or script: send one request and get the results back as JSON. Runs must finish within 5 minutes.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sterlingverify~uk-tenders/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @input.json

Disclaimer

Always read the full notice and documents on the official site before bidding. Buyer contact emails are published for procurement queries only, so don't use them for unrelated marketing. Not affiliated with the Cabinet Office or Crown Commercial Service.

Part of the SterlingVerify UK payments & compliance toolkit. See also: UK Company Check, UK Sanctions Screener, Merchant Compliance Checker, Payments Stack Detector, PSP Status Monitor.