UK public sector tenders

This is a directory of live UK public sector tenders. It lists real notices from two government services, Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, with the closing date and a link to the official notice, and it lets you move from here to the sector or region that matches your business. The lists above this text are refreshed daily when the live feed is connected. If you are looking at a static figure, the page says so and gives its date.

Where these tenders come from

We collect notices from two public services.

Find a Tender is the central digital platform where notices under the Procurement Act 2023 are published. If a buyer is running a procurement under the Act, the tender notice goes here.

Contracts Finder is the older service. Since 24 February 2025 the Procurement Act hasn’t required any notice to go on Contracts Finder: new procurements, above or below threshold, only need notices on Find a Tender. Contracts Finder still carries notices for procurements started under the old rules (PPN 019 guidance). The same opportunity is sometimes listed on both, so we remove duplicates by matching title, buyer and closing date. For the full comparison, see Find a Tender vs Contracts Finder.

Each entry on this page links to the official notice. The official notice and the tender documents are the authority, not this list. Before you decide to bid, read both.

What is not here

This list does not include everything. We do not yet collect from Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales, eSourcing NI and eTendersNI, or from the e-tendering portals that individual buyers and purchasing consortia run. A tender that is published only on one of those will not appear here. Our guide to how to find tenders covers searching and alerts on the free government services.

About a third of notices carry no delivery region, or only the label “UK” (week to 10 Oct 2026). Regional counts on this site therefore do not add up to the national total, and a notice with no region will not appear on a regional page.

Thresholds in one table

Whether a contract has to be advertised, and which rules apply, depends on its value. These are the figures in the government’s guidance, including VAT. Check the guidance for the current position before you rely on them.

Three things the table does not show:

• NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts count as central government for the below-threshold test, so the £12,000 figure applies to them (below-threshold guidance, para 10).
• Schools and transferred Northern Ireland authorities are outside the below-threshold rules in Part 6 of the Act, with limited exceptions, so those figures do not generally apply to them (same guidance, paras 6 and 33).
• Devolved Scottish authorities, meaning those whose functions are exercisable only in or as regards Scotland, are generally outside the Act and follow Scottish procurement law (devolved authorities guidance, paras 7, 18 and 24).

How to use this list

If you are new to public sector work, start by picking the sector closest to what you sell, then read the notices to see what buyers typically ask for. The notices tell you the buyer, the value where one is stated, the closing date and the region. Most also say whether the work is split into lots, which can let a smaller firm bid for part of a contract.

Then check the requirements. A notice rarely tells the whole story: insurance levels, certifications and turnover tests are often set in the tender documents rather than the notice. Our methodology explains how we count what notices state, and what we cannot see. In the week to 10 Oct 2026, only about 6% of live notices stated insurance requirements in the notice itself, so most of what you need to know will be in the pack.

Tell us your trade and postcode to join the free weekly list of live tenders, starting soon. On Pro (£49/month), notices that fit your trade and area are checked against what each states about insurance, certifications and location, and you get an email each morning on days with new matches. Start here, or see the plans.

How these numbers are made

Counts and values on this page come from our own nightly collection of notices from the two services, deduplicated, and every one has an as-of date. Where we show a median value, we do so only when enough notices in the window state a value, and otherwise we show the count and say there are too few stated values. For the week to 10 Oct 2026, 470 live tenders from 338 buyers were published or updated across both services. That static figure is shown whenever the live feed is not connected.