Data sources & licence

Sources

• Find a Tender (UK Government), from 2021: about 210,000 procurements.
• Contracts Finder (UK Government), from 2023: about 233,000 procurements.
• Public Contracts Scotland (Scottish Government), from 2021: about 30,000 procurements.

We combine the three, remove duplicates (a tender published on several portals appears once), classify each notice into trades and regions, and refresh everything daily by about 06:30 UK time. Supplier company numbers refer to the Companies House register.

Licence

The source notices are published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Commercial reuse is allowed. When you publish or share anything built from the data, keep this attribution line:

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

The licence does not imply that the publishers endorse this product or you.

Personal data

Notices sometimes include contact details. We keep team mailboxes (such as a procurement department's address) and remove personal email addresses.

Not covered yet

• Northern Ireland below-threshold tenders.
• Scotland's below-threshold award notices.