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UK and US public-sector contracts — both live

The government contracts worth bidding on, in one short email a week.

TenderPulse watches the official UK notice services — Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, TED and the portals buyers use — and, in the US, SAM.gov plus the city and state portals we read. Then it sends you the few open opportunities a supplier your size can actually win: councils, NHS, schools, transport, facilities, construction, professional services, IT and more — with the category, the deadline, the buyer, the published value where there is one, and a link to the official notice.

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Your weekly brief — sample brief

Illustrative example — not a live opportunity

maintenanceUnited KingdomSouth EastExample feed

Planned preventative maintenance, gas and electrical

Example Almshouse Trust

Closing date
21 November 2026
Estimated value
£164,000 (example value)

Why it fits: Small estate, published asset list, three-year term — a local mechanical and electrical firm can hold the whole thing.

Example notice — there is no official notice to open. Real notices come with your subscription.

Illustrative example — not a live opportunity

transportUnited KingdomNorth EastExample feed

Demand-responsive minibus service, evenings and weekends

Example Combined Authority

Closing date
23 November 2026
Estimated value
£255,000 (example value)

Why it fits: Operator with four to eight accessible vehicles and a driver rota — priced per mile, not a fixed fleet.

Example notice — there is no official notice to open. Real notices come with your subscription.

These two are examples — open the example brief below →

110

open UK notices in the snapshot

186

open US notices in the snapshot

107 federal (SAM.gov) + 79 local — New York City, Los Angeles, Illinois

11

categories, live today

United Kingdom — live now

The snapshot behind this page holds 110 live UK notices across 10 categories, and the brief is sent from that same feed. There is no category we leave out.

United States — live now

The same file holds 186 open US notices — 107 federal opportunities from SAM.gov, the government’s own public API, and 79 local bids: city and metro from New York City’s City Record and Los Angeles’ RAMP marketplace, plus statewide from Illinois’ BidBuy portal — across 11 categories, 113 of them reserved for small business by the buyer. No contract value is shown for a US notice: SAM.gov publishes none for an open solicitation and none of the local feeds publishes one for its bids, so we show none rather than a guess at one.

What you get

A shortlist you can act on, not another feed to read.

A shortlist, not a feed. Typically a focused list of live notices a week — the ones a supplier your size can actually win.

For each notice: the category it falls in, the buyer, the closing date, the estimated value where the buyer published one, and a one-line reason it fits you.

A direct link to the official notice on the buyer's own site — Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, SAM.gov, or the city/state portal the buyer used.

A filter, not a feed: the form on this page takes the markets you bid in, the UK regions you work in, your sector focus and any minimum contract value, and every brief is built from those alone. Change any of them at any time, by reply if you prefer.

How we handle the details. Every notice links to the official page on the buyer's own site, so you can check what we send. Deadlines are copied from that notice with no rounding and no markup — we never shorten or shift a date to make an opportunity look urgent. Where a buyer publishes no estimated value, we say nothing rather than guess.

Every category

Public bodies buy far more than software.

Construction
Health services
Transport
Catering
Facilities & cleaning
Professional services

Every category, not just IT

We file every live notice — UK and US — under one of eleven categories, read off the notice’s own published codes (CPV in the UK, NAICS or PSC in the US) — and the count beside each one is how many open notices the snapshot we hold today actually carries in that category, in both countries together:

  • IT and digitalopen in the snapshot27
  • constructionopen in the snapshot38
  • facilities and cleaningopen in the snapshot26
  • cateringopen in the snapshot8
  • wasteopen in the snapshot22
  • transportopen in the snapshot18
  • health servicesopen in the snapshot37
  • educationopen in the snapshot13
  • professional servicesopen in the snapshot38
  • maintenanceopen in the snapshot37
  • otheropen in the snapshot32

The snapshot this page was built from, pulled on 11 November 2026, holds 110 UK and 186 US notices across 11 categories. Categories with no live notice on the day are simply not listed — they are still carried.

What is still coarse. The sector filter works on the eleven category labels above — the category each notice is published under, read from its own contract code. It does not reach below that: two very different jobs can sit in the same category. If what you bid for is narrower than a whole category, say so in reply and we will read the notices by hand for your brief.

Example brief

This is the shape of what lands in your inbox.

Pick a market (the UK, the US, or both) and a category — one of the eleven the brief files every notice under — and the list below re-sorts. Each notice carries its category and country, the closing date, the buyer and — where the buyer published one — the value. The one-line “why it fits” notes are our own commentary.

Illustrative example — not a live opportunity

Every buyer, title, value and closing date below is invented to show you the shape of the brief. The real open shortlist — today's live notices from the feeds we track — is sent to subscribers.

The real notices come once you subscribe: after you sign up we send you a private link that shows every open notice in today’s snapshot, with the buyer, the closing date and the link to the official notice on the buyer’s own site. Subscribe and open the real shortlist →

Market
Category

2 notices shown of 2 example IT and digital notices in both markets, soonest closing first — invented for this page, not live opportunities.

Illustrative example — not a live opportunity

IT and digitalUnited KingdomSouth EastExample feed

Managed service desk and endpoint support for a mixed estate

Example District Council

Closing date
25 November 2026
Estimated value
£184,000 (example value)

Why it fits: Two-year helpdesk contract for around 600 staff devices, within reach of a 10–20 person MSP with an existing public-sector reference.

Example notice — there is no official notice to open. Real notices come with your subscription.

Illustrative example — not a live opportunity

IT and digitalUnited KingdomNorth WestExample feed

Cyber essentials remediation and incident response retainer

Example NHS Trust

Closing date
1 December 2026
Estimated value
£96,500 (example value)

Why it fits: A single-site trust buying remediation plus a retainer — the kind of lot a small cyber consultancy can price in a week.

Example notice — there is no official notice to open. Real notices come with your subscription.

Real briefs carry a focused list of live notices like these, chosen for your markets, sectors, regions and contract size — not the whole of Contracts Finder, and not every notice that happens to contain the word “software”.

Award history

What comparable contracts were actually awarded for

When a public body awards a contract it publishes what it awarded for. We collect those published award values from the same feeds we read for open notices — Find a Tender and Contracts Finder in the UK, SAM.gov in the US — and summarise them by category and by currency, inside the same £20,000–£1,000,000 band the shortlist uses. That is what tells you what the work has gone for before you price it.

One category is shown in full below. The rest of the table — every category, both currencies, with the sample behind each figure — is part of the subscription.

The free example — IT and digital, UK

≈ £133,000

median awarded value — 118 published IT and digital awards in band

Half of the 118 awards we hold in this category were published at or below this figure and half above. It is not a quote for any open notice, and it is not what losing bidders offered — those figures are never published. Read it as the size of contract this market is buying, before you price one.

In-band range

£20,087 – £995,531

Lowest and highest published award between £20,000 and £1,000,000.

Sample

118 awards

Published awarded values in that band, in this currency alone.

One of the 118 awards behind that figure

Beam Notes Call-Off Agreement

Halton Borough Council — awarded at £130,625, award date as published 2026-08-28.

A published award record, not an open opportunity: this contract has already been awarded.

The full table — every category, both currencies

20 category-and-currency summaries, each built from the awards published in band. The count is shown; the median and the range are for subscribers.

Awarded values by category and currency, with the median and range available to subscribers.
CategoryMarketAwards in bandMedianIn-band range
IT and digitalUK · GBP118Subscribers onlySubscribers only
IT and digitalUS · USD40Subscribers onlySubscribers only
constructionUK · GBP43Subscribers onlySubscribers only
constructionUS · USD70Subscribers onlySubscribers only
facilities and cleaningUK · GBP6thinSubscribers onlySubscribers only
facilities and cleaningUS · USD13Subscribers onlySubscribers only
wasteUK · GBP2thintoo fewtoo few
wasteUS · USD9thinSubscribers onlySubscribers only
transportUK · GBP188Subscribers onlySubscribers only
transportUS · USD5thinSubscribers onlySubscribers only
health servicesUK · GBP143Subscribers onlySubscribers only
health servicesUS · USD43Subscribers onlySubscribers only
educationUK · GBP10Subscribers onlySubscribers only
educationUS · USD3thintoo fewtoo few
professional servicesUK · GBP86Subscribers onlySubscribers only
professional servicesUS · USD52Subscribers onlySubscribers only
maintenanceUK · GBP26Subscribers onlySubscribers only
maintenanceUS · USD27Subscribers onlySubscribers only
otherUK · GBP51Subscribers onlySubscribers only
otherUS · USD393Subscribers onlySubscribers only

“Thin” means fewer than ten published awards in band — the median is quoted in the subscriber table, but it is built from a small sample. “Too few” means fewer than five: we do not quote a median at all from that many. catering has no row because no published award in that category sits inside the band yet — an award published outside it is not counted here.

Subscribe — $49 per month to open the table

Included with the subscription, alongside the weekly brief. The award values themselves are published by the buyers — what the subscription adds is that we have collected them, kept the currencies apart and grouped them by category, so pricing a bid takes a minute instead of an afternoon.

How to read these figures.

  • Awarded value, never bids. Every figure is what a buyer published for the contract it awarded. Losing bids are not published by these systems, so nothing here is a bid, an estimate or an average of offers.
  • Not every award publishes a value. 90 of the award records we pulled carried no published figure and are counted nowhere; 2,648 did, and 1,328 of those sit inside the band above.
  • Recently published, not a full archive. The UK feeds return recently updated award records rather than every contract ever awarded, so a category’s sample is what those feeds happened to publish recently.
  • A comparable is a category. The match is the category and the currency — never the size, scope or buyer. GBP and USD are never converted into each other or blended together.
  • Rounded, and dated as published. Medians are rounded to the nearest 1,000; award dates are copied from the source exactly as published (a few sit ahead of today because the source publishes them that way).

The free guides: find the notices yourself

Everything you need to watch the portals without paying anyone is on these three pages — where the notices are published, how to set up the free alerts yourself, and how to read a notice in two minutes. They are UK pages, and each one shows the same current UK shortlist of seven real notices.

Pricing

One tier. One short email a week.

The weekly brief is a subscription: filtered to the markets, regions, sector focus and minimum value you choose, and cancel any time by replying to the brief.

What happens after you pay

  1. Stripe emails your receipt. Your payment comes with your email address, which is how we know who you are.
  2. Reply to tenderpulse-aed240fb@ctomail.io — or use the filter form further down this page — with the regions you work in and your sector focus. Two minutes.
  3. Your first brief arrives on the next Tuesday send day. If you pay after that day's send, it is the following Tuesday.
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  • Every notice linked to the official page on the buyer's own site.
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Tell us your filters

Already subscribed? Change your markets, regions, sector focus or minimum value here and the next brief is built from them. Not subscribed yet? You can send your filters first — we will hold them and start sending once you have subscribed.

Which market do you bid in? (required)

Pick both if you bid in both. One brief covers whichever you choose.

UK regions you work in (required if you bid in the UK)
Sector focus (optional — the categories you bid for)

Pick the categories you bid for. Choose none and your brief carries every category — construction to catering — with each notice labelled with the category it is in.

US notices are not filtered by value: no US notice we carry publishes one, so a minimum here narrows the UK half of your brief and never hides a US notice.

We use this only to send the brief and to contact you about your subscription. Ask us at tenderpulse-aed240fb@ctomail.io and we will delete it.

Questions, answered plainly

How is this different from the free keyword alerts on Contracts Finder?

Contracts Finder, Find a Tender and TED are the sources. We are the filter. A free keyword alert sends you every notice that matches a word, across the whole country, in whatever state it happens to be drafted. We check the notices ourselves, drop the ones outside your regions and contract size, drop closed and withdrawn ones, and send a short brief with a reason each one fits you. You are paying for judgement and for the ten minutes a week you get back, not for access to data that is already public.

Is this only for IT firms?

No. Every government contract category is in scope — construction, facilities and cleaning, transport, health services, education, professional services, catering, waste, maintenance, IT and digital, and an "other" bucket for anything the codes do not cover. Each notice is labelled with its category so you can see where it sits. Our guides and worked examples are written for IT firms because that is where we started, not because that is the limit. You pick your own categories in the filter form on this page, alongside the markets and regions you work in and any minimum contract value — those choices are what your brief is filtered on.

Does this cover the United States yet?

Yes. US notices are in the brief now — federal opportunities from SAM.gov, plus local bids: city and metro from New York City’s City Record and Los Angeles’ RAMP marketplace, and statewide from Illinois’ BidBuy portal (the state’s own marketplace, which is how we reach the Chicago region — Chicago’s own feed is a weekly PDF with no machine-readable deadline). The snapshot behind this page holds 186 open US notices across 11 categories, pulled from the public APIs those bodies publish. One honest difference from the UK side: SAM.gov publishes no contract value for an open solicitation and none of the local feeds publishes one either, so a US notice shows no value rather than a guess at one, and a federal notice carries the buyer's set-aside where the contract is reserved for small business.

Where does the data come from?

Only public sources. In the UK: Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, Crown Commercial Service, the Digital Marketplace, and TED where UK notices appear there. For the United States we read the SAM.gov federal opportunities feed, and for local American work the New York City City Record and the Los Angeles RAMP marketplace — the open-data portals those bodies themselves publish — plus Illinois' BidBuy portal, the procurement marketplace the state of Illinois runs — on the same weekly pull as the UK feeds. That pull is running: the US notices are in the same brief as the UK ones. We do not scrape anything private, and we do not resell anyone's data. Every notice we send links back to the official page on the buyer's own site.

Can I change my filters after I subscribe?

Yes. Reply to any brief, or email tenderpulse-aed240fb@ctomail.io, and tell us your regions, sectors and minimum value. Changes take effect from the next weekly send. There is no limit and no charge for changing them.

How do I cancel?

Reply to any brief, or email tenderpulse-aed240fb@ctomail.io, and say cancel. The subscription stops, we stop sending, and we delete your details on request. No cancellation flow to fight through and no notice period beyond the billing period you have already paid for.

Do you guarantee I will win work?

No. Nobody can, and you should be wary of anyone who says otherwise. What we do is make sure you see the opportunities that fit you while they are still open, and that you are reading a short list rather than a long one. Winning the bid is your work.

What if a brief is not useful?

Tell us. If your filters are off, we fix them. If the brief genuinely is not useful to your business, cancel — see above. We would rather you leave than pay for something you do not read.