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Find a Tender
Read on the TRINTA daily scan · also known as FTS, Find a Tender Service
Find a Tender is the service that replaced TED for the United Kingdom after Brexit: high-value UK notices publish there instead of the EU journal. A European supplier whose watch starts and ends at TED lost sight of the UK market in 2021 without noticing.
TRINTA counted 13,237 notices inviting tenders on Find a Tender from January to September 2026, 88.2% of them under the Procurement Act 2023, and 10.7% of the competed lots awarded in the same months drew a single bid. The UK market, measured, and how to bid →
What publishes here
The UK's national service for above-threshold procurement notices.
Address checked on the authority's own pages on .
How to register as a supplier on Find a Tender
Any supplier that wants to bid for a procurement run under the Procurement Act 2023. The Cabinet Office says you can register now but only need to at the point you want to bid for a contract, and that Find a Tender is free to use for everyone. Source: gov.uk
Create a GOV.UK One Login with your individual work email address and agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. If you already have one, sign in and go straight to the next step.
Source: gov.ukAgree to the Central Digital Platform service privacy policy and enter your first and last name.
Source: gov.ukFrom My account, select Register an organisation, then choose Supplier rather than Buyer.
Source: gov.ukGive the organisation's Companies House number or an equivalent, such as a Charity Commission number. If it has no such number, the platform assigns it a unique identifier, and a non-UK address can be entered.
Source: gov.ukSelect the SME status if it applies, check the registered name, give a shared organisation email address your team can access and the registered address, check your answers and save.
Source: gov.ukOpen the organisation with View to find its unique identifier, and share that identifier with the contracting authority before being awarded a contract.
Source: gov.uk
Worth knowing
- Find a Tender is free to use for everyone: the Cabinet Office says there are no charges and you should not pay to view opportunities in the public sector. Source: gov.uk
- An account on the old Find a Tender does not carry over: you re-register, and with the same email address your saved searches are pulled through. Source: gov.uk
- The supplier information it asks for includes the Companies House number if you have one, the most recent two years of accounts if you have them, people or businesses connected to the organisation or with significant control over it, and any convictions or offences. Source: gov.uk
- To keep tendering on Sell2Wales, upload the unique supplier ID to your Sell2Wales profile. Source: sell2wales.gov.wales
Checked on against the official sources linked above. Procedures change, and each tender's own documents decide.
The market around it, United Kingdom
Find a Tender is one of the named national channels in the United Kingdom. Beside them, 13 more sources publish their own notices; they are counted by category on the country page, never listed, because the complete source map is what sets the radar apart.
Devolution is the trap in the UK map: a supplier watching only the England-facing services misses the procedures Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland publish at home.
What TRINTA does with it
Find a Tender is read on the TRINTA daily scan. The radar is built per client: it starts from the company's real catalogue, builds a multilingual keyword profile, then scores every notice 0 to 100 against what the company actually sells, with the reasoning shown. Procedure documents are retrieved and attached, and a short scored list arrives each morning.
Frequently asked questions
01What is Find a Tender?
Find a Tender (find-tender.service.gov.uk) is the UK's national service for above-threshold procurement notices. It is one of the 17 sources the TRINTA registry maps for public tenders in the United Kingdom.
02Do all public tenders in the United Kingdom appear on Find a Tender?
No single source carries the whole market. Beside the named national channels, 13 more sources in the United Kingdom publish their own notices, counted by category on the United Kingdom page. Watching one platform is not watching the market.
03How can a company monitor Find a Tender?
You can follow find-tender.service.gov.uk directly, or let a radar do it: TRINTA reads Find a Tender on the daily scan, beside the other sources in the United Kingdom, and scores every notice 0 to 100 against your company's real catalogue, with the reasoning shown.
04How do I register as a supplier on Find a Tender?
Any supplier that wants to bid for a procurement run under the Procurement Act 2023. The Cabinet Office says you can register now but only need to at the point you want to bid for a contract, and that Find a Tender is free to use for everyone. 1. Create a GOV.UK One Login with your individual work email address and agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. If you already have one, sign in and go straight to the next step. 2. Agree to the Central Digital Platform service privacy policy and enter your first and last name. 3. From My account, select Register an organisation, then choose Supplier rather than Buyer. 4. Give the organisation's Companies House number or an equivalent, such as a Charity Commission number. If it has no such number, the platform assigns it a unique identifier, and a non-UK address can be entered. 5. Select the SME status if it applies, check the registered name, give a shared organisation email address your team can access and the registered address, check your answers and save. 6. Open the organisation with View to find its unique identifier, and share that identifier with the contracting authority before being awarded a contract. Checked on 12 Oct 2026 against the official sources linked above. Procedures change, and each tender's own documents decide.
Tell us the markets, we send the map
Name the countries you are weighing up. You get back where public tenders are published in each one, how much of that we read every day, and what an EU company needs before it may bid there. An email, not a call.
See what the radar finds on Find a Tender
The demo is prepared on your catalogue, with real notices from your markets, before the call.