What is open today
In the snapshot behind this page — pulled on 11 November 2026 — 296 notices were still open, 110 of them UK and 186 US, spread across 11 of the 11 categories we label — construction, facilities and cleaning, transport, health services, education, professional services, catering, waste, maintenance, IT and digital, and an “other” bucket.
- 110 open — United Kingdom — Contracts Finder and Find a Tender
- 186 open — United States — SAM.gov federal, plus New York City, Los Angeles and Illinois local
Counted when this page was loaded, straight from the same file the weekly brief is built from — so it changes when the notices change, and it is never typed in. A notice whose deadline has passed is not in the count.
Every notice below was still open when we last checked the official feeds, 2 days ago (11 November 2026 at 17:43 UTC).
We check every closing date each time this page is loaded, so a notice whose deadline has passed is never shown here — the dates you can see are still open. Check the official notice itself before you plan any bid work.
How an alert becomes worth opening
The portals are not the problem. Contracts Finder, Find a Tender and SAM.gov are free, complete and well indexed; a keyword alert on any of them will send you everything that matches your word, across the whole country, in whatever state it happens to be drafted. That is why most keyword alerts stop being opened. The filter that is missing is not another keyword — it is a judgement about size, patch and category, applied to the whole list before it reaches you.
That is the whole of what TenderPulse does: one short list a week, a free sample brief of the current notices, every entry linking to the official notice on the buyer’s own service. Nothing here is generated and nothing is behind a paywall.
Where to go next
If you bid in one market, the two country hubs carry the detail: UK government contracts breaks the UK notices down by the service they came from, and US government contracts breaks the American ones down by federal, city and state feed. Both count what is open at the moment you read them.
The shortlist, not another feed
One email a week, every Tuesday: the live notices worth your time, each with the buyer, the closing date, the published value where the buyer published one, one line on why it fits a small supplier, and a link to the official notice. It is a subscription, billed monthly through Stripe, and you can cancel any time. We add no markup to anything.
Start from the market you bid in
- The free sample brief
The main page’s free sample brief: seven real notices as they went out, what the weekly brief contains, the price and the FAQ.
- UK government contracts and public-sector tenders
Every UK category, from Contracts Finder and Find a Tender — with the live count on each service.
- US government contracts — federal, city and state
SAM.gov federal opportunities plus local bids from New York City, Los Angeles and Illinois, counted by feed.
- How to find council IT tenders
Where councils publish IT work, how to set up the free alerts yourself, and how to read a notice in two minutes.
- Tender alerts for UK MSPs and small IT firms
Why keyword alerts stop getting read, an honest comparison of the options, and what TenderPulse does and does not do.
- NHS IT tenders
Where health IT notices are published, and which contract shapes a small supplier can realistically win.