How to find government tenders in the UK (and get them daily)

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Figures as spoken in the video (October 2026). ScoutTide now reads 156 official sources in over 180 countries.

UK public buyers publish new tenders every working day, on five official portals. They are free to search. Find a Tender is the main UK service for public procurement notices. Contracts Finder holds English contracts run under the older rules. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own: Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI.

We wrote a free guide to tenders in the UK: where they are published, what is in demand, who buys, and how much time you get to bid. The link is in the description.

The hard part is keeping up. You check several portals every day, a keyword search misses tenders worded differently, and abroad, many notices are in another language. Of tenders published in early October 2026, the median deadline was 28 days. That goes fast once you start writing the bid.

ScoutTide does the keeping up for you. Describe what you sell once, in plain words. Every morning ScoutTide reads 142 official procurement portals in 185 countries and gives you one ranked list of the tenders that fit, translated into English, with the deadline and a link to the official notice.

It also finds public posts on Reddit, LinkedIn, Stack Exchange and Upwork where someone is asking for what you sell. Mark what is not relevant and the list gets sharper. Save or claim a tender and share it with your team.

So instead of checking portals every day, you read one short list each morning, and you see tenders and buyers you would have missed.

Try it now without signing up: go to scouttide.com and type what you sell. If it finds work for you, start the 14 day free trial.