UK & Australia Tenders: Contracts Finder + AusTender API

Get public-sector tenders and contract notices from UK Contracts Finder and AusTender in one clean, unified format, including who won the contract (supplier company, UK Companies House number or Australian ABN). Filter by date, keywords and value, or run it daily and get only the new notices.

Data comes from the official open-data APIs (OCDS) of both governments. We don't scrape web pages and don't use logins, and the output contains no contact details: winning suppliers are shown only when they are a company or public body.

What you get

One row per notice, with the same fields for both countries:

Field	Example
country	UK / AU
notice_id	7917ed39-076b-… (UK) / CN4285896 (AU)
published	2026-10-29T22:46:38Z
stage	tender, award, contract, planning …
title, description	Co-Sourced Internal Audit Service
buyer	ORBIT GROUP LIMITED
value, currency	840000, GBP
category, cpv_or_unspsc	services, 79212000
deadline	response deadline (UK open tenders)
contract_start, contract_end	contract period (AU)
award_date, award_value	for awarded contracts
suppliers	winning suppliers that are companies or public bodies: name, company_number (UK Companies House), abn (AU), scale (UK: sme / large)
suppliers_withheld	number of winners not shown because they may be individuals (sole traders, named partners)
url	link to the notice page on the official site (Contracts Finder /Notice/…, AusTender /Cn/Show/…)
id	unique record id (= release_id); used by "only new" mode
ocid, release_id	OCDS identifiers for joining with other data
licence, licence_url, attribution	source licence, kept on every row

Example record

{
  "id": "prod-2be96201192c44fda8188d1767a75650-5a519c064248358c89eb3cac35e33505",
  "country": "AU",
  "notice_id": "CN4287053",
  "published": "2026-11-05T06:19:48Z",
  "stage": "contract",
  "title": "Concur Licensing",
  "description": "Concur Licensing",
  "buyer": "Digital Transformation Agency",
  "value": 207837.43,
  "currency": "AUD",
  "category": null,
  "cpv_or_unspsc": "81162000",
  "deadline": null,
  "contract_start": "2026-10-28T13:00:00Z",
  "contract_end": "2029-10-27T13:00:00Z",
  "award_date": "2026-10-28T13:00:00Z",
  "award_value": 207837.43,
  "suppliers": [{"name": "Example Software Pty Ltd", "company_number": null, "abn": "11222333444", "scale": null}],
  "suppliers_withheld": 0,
  "url": "https://www.tenders.gov.au/Cn/Show/3d59bcdc-91b3-4aaf-9585-f844982a37d5",
  "ocid": "prod-2be96201192c44fda8188d1767a75650",
  "release_id": "prod-2be96201192c44fda8188d1767a75650-5a519c064248358c89eb3cac35e33505",
  "licence": "CC-BY-3.0-AU",
  "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/",
  "attribution": "AusTender materials are released by the Department of Finance. ..."
}

(Real record from a test run on 2026-11-05; attribution shortened here, full text in the data. The supplier and award fields were added on 2026-11-06 and are shown with a made-up supplier.)

Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or read it through the Apify API.

Each run also saves a run report (RUN_REPORT in the key-value store, linked on the Output tab): per source, pages fetched, records delivered, block rate, invalid records, and whether the date range was collected completely (if a run stops at its request limit, the status message says the results may be incomplete).

Coverage note: AusTender's API publishes awarded contract notices (CNs), not open tender opportunities. UK Contracts Finder covers tenders, awards and updates.

Input

Option	Default
Countries	UK + AU	uk, au
Published from / to	last 7 days	YYYY-MM-DD
Keywords	(all)	matches title or description, any word
UK: awarded contracts only	off	UK award notices only (with the winner); AU is always awarded contracts
Minimum value	(none)	in the notice's currency (GBP/AUD); notices without a value are dropped
Max results	1000 (form starts at 50 for a quick test)	hard stop, so you control cost
Only new since last run	off	turn on and schedule daily to get a fresh feed

Daily tender alert in 3 steps

1. Set Keywords for your sector (e.g. software, cloud, cleaning) and, if you like, a Minimum value.
2. Turn on Only new since last run.
3. Add a daily Schedule in Apify Console. Each run delivers only notices you have not seen yet. Send them on with an Apify integration (e.g. email, Slack, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier) or a webhook.

Typical uses

• Daily alert of new public contracts in your sector (keywords + schedule + "only new").
• Market sizing: who buys what, for how much, in UK and Australia.
• Competitor and pipeline tracking for bid teams: who wins which contracts, for how much.

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.005 per notice delivered to your dataset, plus a tiny start fee per run (see the Pricing tab). Examples: 50 notices = $0.25; 1,000 notices = $5. Notices dropped by your filters are free. Max results and the maximum cost per run cap what you pay.

How it behaves

• Polite by design: obeys robots.txt, one request at a time per site, slows down automatically if a source rate-limits.
• Contact names, emails and phones are removed. Winning suppliers are shown only when they are clearly an organisation (the name ends in a legal form such as Ltd / Pty Ltd / LLP / PLC, or it is a public body such as a university or council, with no trading-as or personal part); possible individuals are withheld and only counted. Emails/phone numbers inside descriptions are masked.

FAQ

Which UK service is covered? UK Contracts Finder only (open tenders, awards, updates). Find a Tender (FTS) is not included.

Does AusTender include open tenders? No. The AusTender open-data API publishes awarded contract notices (CNs). Open approaches to market (ATMs) are not in the API.

How fresh is the data? Each run reads the official APIs live, so it is as fresh as the sources at run time.

How long does a run take? A quick test (form defaults, 50 results) takes about 20 seconds. A week of both countries with keyword filters took about 2 minutes in our tests. UK Contracts Finder limits request rates, so large date ranges take longer.

Can I use it from code or an AI agent? Yes: through the Apify API and client libraries (Python, JavaScript), or as a tool for AI agents through the Apify MCP server.

Is it legal to use the data? Both sources are official open data (OGL v3 for the UK, CC BY 3.0 AU for Australia). Keep the attribution in each row when you re-publish.

Data licence and attribution

Re-use of the output must keep the attribution in each row:

• UK: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Contracts Finder, Cabinet Office.
• Australia (wording required by the AusTender Terms of Use, clause 6.1): AusTender materials are released by the Department of Finance. AusTender materials are subject to change and should be verified on the AusTender website to ensure the information is up to date and correct: www.tenders.gov.au. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU. Data filtered and reformatted. Only contract notice data is included; Approach to Market (ATM) documents are copyright and are never collected.

This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the UK or Australian governments.