UK Find a Tender OCDS API

UK Find a Tender OCDS API

Find a Tender publishes UK procurement notices as Open Contracting Data Standard JSON through a keyless API. The documentation says: "You can download notices in Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) JSON format using our API." and "Notice fields are mapped to OCDS version 1.1.5 with extensions as defined by the Open Contracting Partnership". Both an OCDS release package API and an OCDS record package API are offered.

Coverage

Notices published on the Find a Tender service. The checked release-package response declared OCDS version 1.1 with the EU profile and several Open Contracting extensions. The same data is also published as XML: "The same notice data is also available to download from the data.gov.uk website or using their API." Publication thresholds, history start, update frequency and delay: Not stated on the checked documentation page. Find a Tender is a separate service from Contracts Finder, which the catalog covers under its own entry.

Verdict

A keyless OCDS feed of UK public procurement notices, usable for pipeline, tender and award tracking without scraping notice pages. The documentation says: "The UK is committed to open contracting. Notice data is available under the Open Government Licence." and the page footer adds "All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated". The same footer records a third-party origin for the schemas: "Notices are based on TED XML schema. © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu, 1998–2020". This is a different service from the Contracts Finder OCDS API already in the catalog; the documentation does not state publication thresholds, so check each service's scope before treating either as complete. Signal Lab links only.