Find a Tender
Find a Tender carries public procurement notices, including the newer Procurement Act notice types. BidSkim turns that feed into scored matches, plain English summaries, and source-linked briefs.
Britain-wide notices
Data coverage
Four official sources. One feed.
Every public notice in Britain, checked daily, deduplicated, and connected to five years of buyer and award history. Then scored against your business, not your keywords.
800,000+
notices tracked
10,000+
buyers covered
5 years
of award history
Daily
source checks
We scan every official portal listed here in full. What reaches you is the signal, not the feed.
Already get alerts from these portals?
7 in 10 new sign-ups had missed a contract that fit them.
That's what their 12-month reports found, and it's why BidSkim replaces portal alerts rather than adding another one. Two things cause the misses: the keywords you guessed, and the CPV codes buyers picked.
your alertcleaning
cleaningjanitorialcustodialhousekeepingsanitationhygiene
5 contracts missed1 term matched
Keywords only catch the words you guessed. You say repairs; the buyer writes responsive maintenance, minor works, or property compliance. The contract was published. Your alert never fired.
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58 to triage2 relevant
CPV codes cast the net too wide. Set them wide enough to be safe and your inbox fills with work that was never yours. Plenty of notices are mislabelled too, or carry no useful code at all.
Don't take our word for it. Run the 12-month report.
Sign up free and BidSkim scans the last 12 months of awarded contracts against your business. You see what matched, what it was worth, and who won it instead. If your current alerts caught everything, the report will say so.
What replaces the noise
When BidSkim emails you, it's worth opening.
Instead of keywords, BidSkim reads the full notice and scores it against what you actually do: your services, regions, contract size and certifications. One email a day, strongest matches first.
- Matched on what you do, not on word overlap, however the buyer phrased it.
- Every score comes with its reasons, so you can trust it or overrule it in seconds.
- You choose which lanes email you: Recommended, Worth a look, In your market.
- Duplicates and cross-posted notices collapsed, so one contract appears once.
- The official source stays one click away for the detail.
The sources
Named sources, not 'national coverage'.
Each source has its own page: what it is, what it publishes, and exactly what BidSkim adds on top.
Contracts Finder
Contracts Finder is a key public source for opportunities, future work, and previous contracts. BidSkim adds fit scoring, dedupe, summaries, buyer context, and renewal clues.
England and legacy below-threshold work
Public Contracts Scotland
Public Contracts Scotland gives suppliers free access to public contract opportunities across Scotland. BidSkim brings those notices into the same scored workflow as your other sources.
Scotland
Sell2Wales
Sell2Wales is the Welsh Government service for public sector contract opportunities in Wales. BidSkim brings Welsh notices into the same scored workflow, with source links and daily data enrichment.
Wales
What we do to it
From raw notice to something you can act on.
1 · Clean
Cross-posted and repeated notices are matched on reference numbers, buyer and dates, then collapsed into one record. Buyer, value, dates, lots, CPV and stage pulled into a consistent brief.
2 · Connect
Planning, tender, award and change notices grouped around the same buyer need, so you see the contract's story instead of scattered records.
3 · Enrich
Capability-based fit scores, plain-English summaries, framework flags, renewal signals, and buyer contacts where the public record provides them.
Why the history matters
Old awards are tomorrow's pipeline.
Alerts only see today's notices. Five years of award history is what lets BidSkim see forwards.
Renewal signals
Contract end dates and extension options show what's coming back to market months before any alert could fire.
Similar contract history
Comparable awarded contracts show what work like yours actually went for, who won, and how many suppliers bid.
Buyer history
Who a buyer awards to, how often, at what values, and what they require. Worth knowing before you spend a week on their tender.
Competitor tracking
What rivals hold, where they win, and which of their contracts are nearing expiry.
Straight answers
Common questions about the data.
This data is public. Why pay?
It is, and we're upfront about that. The difference is what happens to it. We deduplicate it, connect it to five years of history, and score it against your business. You're paying to not spend your mornings doing that by hand.
I already get portal alerts.
BidSkim is built to replace them. Portal alerts match words, and in the 12-month reports we run for new sign-ups, 7 in 10 had missed a contract that fit them. BidSkim reads the whole notice, matches your service lines across every portal, and adds what no portal shows: renewals, buyer profiles and competitor tracking. Your free report will show the difference on your own patch.
How fresh is it?
Sources are checked daily. New notices are scored and in your feed the next morning.
Can I filter it down?
Yes. Matching already accounts for your regions, contract size and certifications, and the feed filters by region, category, framework type and stage on top.
Do you handle duplicates?
Yes. Cross-posted and repeated lifecycle notices are collapsed, so one contract appears once.
Can I verify against the source?
Always. Every brief keeps a link to the official notice. We summarise the record, we don't replace it.
Where is coverage thin?
Some portals publish sparse fields, and renewal dates only exist where buyers published them. Where the source is thin, we say so rather than guess.
Official references
The public sources behind the data.
These services are the system of record. BidSkim is the layer that makes them usable daily.
Find a Tender
Contracts Finder
Public Contracts Scotland
Sell2Wales
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