about

gvtcx is a search engine over UK public sector tenders and contract awards. It covers all four national services — Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales — with the buyer, the supplier, the value and the full notice history for each one. The table below is generated from the corpus, so it is what the site actually holds rather than what it intends to.

coverage

Contracts Finder covers mainly English below and above threshold notices, and Find a Tender carries UK-wide above-threshold notices published since January 2021. Public Contracts Scotland covers Scottish regulated procurement over £50,000 for goods and services or £2m for works; Sell2Wales covers Welsh goods and services over £25,000 and works over £2m. Northern Ireland runs its own portal, which is not yet ingested.

Scotland and Wales publish through the OCDS profile for the European Union rather than the UK one, which places the value on the contract instead of the tender. We read both, so a Scottish contract shows what was actually paid rather than nothing at all — but it is a settled price, not an advertised maximum, and the two are not quite the same figure.

notices and notice types

A single procurement generates many notices over its life: a planning notice, a tender notice, an award, later amendments. This site holds 958,828 individual notices, of which 941,515 (98%) are linked to the procurement they belong to.

Three notice vocabularies coexist, because which applies depends on the legal regime a procurement runs under rather than on its date: UK1 to UK17 under the Procurement Act 2023, F01 to F21 under the earlier regulations, and the OCDS release tags (tender, award, awardUpdate, planning) on Contracts Finder.

how to read the numbers

Contract values in this data are unreliable in one specific way: framework agreements and dynamic markets publish a ceiling, the maximum that could be spent across every call-off, in the same field an ordinary contract uses for its actual value. A handful of these dwarf everything else, so any total is meaningless.

This site therefore reports medians rather than sums, excludes flagged ceilings from aggregates, and labels them on individual notices. Where you see a ceiling tag, treat the figure as an upper bound.

what is deliberately not here

• Mirrored tender documents. Documents are linked to their publishing authority rather than copied.
• Anything rewritten. Notice text is reproduced as the buyer published it, including any contact details they put in it, which are there so suppliers can respond. Formatting is normalised for readability; wording is not.

data and licence

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Data is published by the Cabinet Office and Crown Commercial Service via Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, and is used here under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

The same licence lets you reuse everything here. If you want the underlying data in bulk, take it from the original sources rather than crawling this site. It is faster for you and far kinder to us.

accuracy

Buyer and supplier profiles are built by matching organisation identifiers (GB-PPON, Companies House) where publishers provide them, falling back to exact name matching where they do not. Many notices carry no identifier at all, so one real organisation can still appear as several profiles, for example where a body has been renamed. Every profile lists the name variants it merged so you can judge the matching yourself.