UK Contracts Finder Tender Monitor

Turn the official UK Contracts Finder OCDS feed into qualified tender alerts. This Actor finds active and planning notices, applies practical bid filters, and returns a clean dataset for sales teams, bid managers, consultancies, and procurement-intelligence workflows. Run it on demand, create an Apify Task for your market, then schedule it or connect it to webhooks, Make, Zapier, a CRM, or the dataset API.

What does UK Contracts Finder Tender Monitor do?

The Actor reads structured releases from the official UK Contracts Finder OCDS source. It keeps active and planning notices, excludes completed awards, matches keywords, and can qualify records by buyer, CPV code, published value, buyer region, procurement method, and remaining deadline.

Use new_notices_only for a true monitoring workflow. The Actor keeps stable OCDS identities in its Apify key-value store and emits only notices it has not already returned in delta mode. Leave it off when you need a repeatable full lookback export.

Why use it?

• Find new UK public-sector opportunities before manual inbox and portal checks.
• Route bid-ready leads to a CRM, spreadsheet, webhook, or sales operations workflow.
• Focus a daily alert on the buyers, CPV families, values, regions, and deadlines that matter.
• Use official structured data rather than fragile generic-page scraping.

How to use UK Contracts Finder Tender Monitor

1. In the Input tab, enter your product or service keywords.
2. Optionally set buyer, CPV, value, region, procurement method, and deadline filters.
3. Select New notices only for recurring alerts; leave it disabled for research exports.
4. Run the Actor. Save the working input as an Apify Task and attach your own schedule or webhook.

Input

{
  "keywords": ["cloud", "cyber security"],
  "cpv_codes": ["72000000"],
  "min_contract_value": 50000,
  "region": ["London"],
  "min_days_until_deadline": 7,
  "new_notices_only": true,
  "lookback_days": 30,
  "max_items": 100
}

Output

Each dataset item represents one qualified official notice. Core fields include ocid, title, buyer_organisation, region, cpv_codes, value_amount, deadline, days_until_deadline, procurement_method, matched_keyword, and the official notice URL. Download results as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or through the Apify API.

The OUTPUT record contains a run summary with qualified-record and delta-state counts, making failed integrations and empty alert windows easy to diagnose.

Data table

Field	Meaning
title, description	Notice content
buyer_organisation, region	Buying body and region
cpv_codes	Official classification codes
value_amount, value_currency	Published contract value
deadline, days_until_deadline	Bid timing
url	Official Contracts Finder notice

Pricing / cost estimation

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing: an event is a qualified tender notice returned. Keep max_items and narrow filters to control cost. New-notice delta mode is usually the lowest-cost choice for scheduled monitoring.

Tips, limitations, and support

Start broad, inspect a dataset, then tighten CPV and buyer filters. The source is UK Contracts Finder only; it is not a universal tender portal. Public-body data quality and availability remain controlled by the source. Use the Actor lawfully and in line with applicable terms. For support, include the input, expected notice, and Apify run URL; custom source integrations can be discussed through the Actor Issues tab.