UK Find a Tender API — a practical feed

UK GovCon BD teams; Market intelligence analysts usually need a reliable machine-readable feed — not another portal tab. Here is a method you can run yourself, then the Apify Actor that automates it.

The method

1. Prefer the official API for the source (not brittle HTML) whenever one exists.
2. Filter server-side or early: keywords, dates, codes (CPV/NAICS/CFDA), and geography.
3. Flatten each record into one JSON row with stable ids and deep links back to the source.
4. Deduplicate on the source id; keep failures as separate rows so one miss does not kill the batch.
5. Schedule daily and diff on id so operators only see what is new.

Doing it at scale

UK Find a Tender (publicrecords/uk-find-a-tender-scraper) runs that method on Apify. UK above-threshold Find a Tender notices via the official OCDS 1.1 API. Keyword and CPV filters to flat JSON for GovCon BD.

What you can rely on: Official Find a Tender OCDS 1.1 API; Above-threshold notices; Flat structured notice rows; Keyword and CPV filters.

{
  "source": "UK Find a Tender",
  "note": "Shape varies by Actor — see the Store README for the live output schema."
}

Actor: https://apify.com/publicrecords/uk-find-a-tender-scraper?utm_source=site&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=uktender

Method pages: https://geminigeorge22.github.io/uktender/?utm_source=site&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=uktender

Published by the publicrecords maintainer on Apify.