Contracts by sector and region
23,939 UK public sector contracts with a published end date, worth £173.1bn between them. Pick what you sell and where you sell it.
By sector
Business services, legal, HR and marketing3,261Construction and civil engineering2,719Health and social care2,160IT services and software development2,156Architecture, engineering and surveying1,732Repair and maintenance1,631Education and training1,581Software and information systems1,564Transport services1,525Waste, cleaning and environmental862Medical equipment and pharmaceuticals768Research and development768Financial services and insurance595Other community and personal services587Vehicles and transport equipment524Building materials422Laboratory and precision equipment411Public administration and defence335Industrial machinery334Grounds, forestry and horticulture305Electrical equipment285Furniture and cleaning products282Leisure, culture and sport269Security, fire and defence214Property and estates210Communications equipment202Office and computer equipment189Hotels, catering and retail173Freight, logistics and travel173Post and telecoms164Installation services154Print and publishing152Fuel, energy and electricity144Food and catering supplies134Sports, games and instruments104Clothing and uniforms84Construction and mining machinery82Agriculture, farming and fishing72Chemicals71Public utilities71Mining and metals25Water4
By region
Regions come from the buyer's published NUTS code, so they locate the buying authority rather than always the place the work happens.
Common questions
- How do I find UK public sector contracts before they go to tender?
- Public bodies publish a contract details notice when they award, and it usually carries the contract end date. That date is the signal: a contract ending in eighteen months will be re-tendered in roughly twelve, and the buyer starts shaping the requirement months before that. ContractWindow reads every notice on Find a Tender, extracts those end dates and ranks what is coming.
- What is a re-tender window?
- The period before a contract expires when the buyer is preparing its replacement: writing the specification, running market engagement and deciding the scope. It is the only point at which a supplier who is not the incumbent can influence what gets bought. ContractWindow computes it from the published end date and typical procurement lead times for that value and category. It is an estimate, not an announcement.
- Who is the incumbent supplier on a public contract?
- The supplier that currently holds it, named on the award notice the buyer published. Knowing the incumbent tells you who you are displacing, what they charged and how long they have held it, which is most of what you need to decide whether bidding is worth the effort.
- Where does the data come from?
- The Find a Tender Service OCDS API, the UK government's official procurement data feed, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contract end dates, values and supplier names are as the buyer published them. Nothing is scraped and nothing is guessed.
- Is it free?
- Live tenders open for bids, buyer profiles and award history are free and need no account. The expiry radar, which is the computed view of what is coming up for renewal and who holds it now, is the paid product.
Where this comes from
Every figure on this site is derived from notices published on the Find a Tender Service under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contract end dates are what the buyer published. Re-tender windows are computed estimates, not announcements, and a buyer is free to extend, re-scope or cancel.