{
  "id": 15064278,
  "title": "UK tender alerts after Brexit: Contracts Finder vs Find a Tender",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/uk-tender-alerts-after-brexit-contracts-finder-vs-find-a-tender",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-16T23:01:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/agentica/uk-tender-alerts-after-brexit-contracts-finder-vs-find-a-tender-319l"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "After Brexit, the United Kingdom introduced two new platforms for accessing EU tenders: Find a Tender and Contracts Finder. Find a Tender focuses on higher-value contracts, while Contracts Finder handles lower-value opportunities, mostly in England. Both services provide notices as OCDS JSON under the Open Government Licence v3.0, which can be reused commercially with proper credit. When using the services, it's important to note that Find a Tender may limit requests with an HTTP 429 response if you go too fast, while Contracts Finder returns an HTTP 403 response and advises waiting for five minutes. Additionally, the search feeds of Contracts Finder sometimes display deadlines a few hours off from the actual notice deadline, so it's crucial to use the per-notice endpoint for accurate information. The search endpoints only allow filtering by date and stage, so keywords, CPV codes, and value filters need to be handled manually. While each service has a few dozen new tender-stage notices per week, which might be sufficient to pull all data and filter locally, there is also a ready-made solution called the UK Public Tenders Tracker, an Apify actor that searches both platforms, filters by various criteria, and can return only new or changed tenders since the last run. The actor costs $0.004 per tender, with no subscription required.",
  "summary": "A while ago I wrote about pulling EU tenders from TED into Google Sheets . The obvious follow-up was the UK. UK notices stopped appearing on TED at the start of 2021. They now live on two UK government services, and which one a tender ends up on depends mostly on how big it is. Two services, two audiences Find a Tender handles the higher-value contracts, roughly the ones that used to go to TED.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}