What is open in the UK today
In the snapshot behind this page — pulled on 11 November 2026 — 110 UK notices were still open, across 10 of the 11 categories we label. Here is how they split by the service each notice was published on:
- 69 open notices — Find a Tender
- 41 open notices — Contracts Finder
110 of the 110, which is the whole UK half of the file: every one of these notices was pulled from a public feed and re-checked against the clock when this page loaded, so none of them has a closing date in the past. The numbers change as the file is refreshed — they are counted here, never typed in.
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.
Both services are free. The filtering is the product.
You can search Contracts Finder and Find a Tender yourself, set up your own keyword alerts, and never pay anyone anything — that is the honest starting position, and the rest of the free advice on this site is written on the assumption that you might. What the two services do not do is decide on your behalf. They will send you every notice that matches your word, whether it is a contract for a national programme or a two-week repair job in a county you have never worked in, and they have no idea how big your business is.
So the useful question is not “where are the notices” — they are all in one of two places, and both are linked above in the count. It is “which of these can a firm like mine actually win, and which should I not spend an evening on”. That is the judgement TenderPulse sells: one short UK list a week, each entry with the buyer, the closing date, the published value where the buyer published one, and a link to the official notice. The current sample brief is free to read, and it is the whole shortlist format in the words it goes out in.
Bidding outside the UK as well
The same weekly brief carries the US notices, counted separately on US government contracts — federal opportunities from SAM.gov, and local bids from the New York City, Los Angeles and Illinois portals. If you bid in both markets, the combined page is the two-country picture in one place.
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.
UK tenders by category
Every category we publish a page for in this market, with the number of open notices behind it at the moment you loaded this page. The counts come from the same snapshot as the one above.
- Construction tenders
17 open notices in this snapshot.
- Facilities and cleaning tenders
7 open notices in this snapshot.
- Health services tenders
17 open notices in this snapshot.
- Professional services tenders
17 open notices in this snapshot.
- Maintenance tenders
13 open notices in this snapshot.
- IT and digital tenders
14 open notices in this snapshot.
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.
- Government contract alerts — UK and US, every category
What is open in both markets today, why a filtered alert beats a keyword alert, and how the weekly brief works.
- 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.