Winston Intelligence

Public procurement for UK suppliers

Find the buyers and opportunities worth acting on.

Winston Scout brings public procurement notices, buyer activity and your saved work into one clear workspace. It is live, permanently free and built for suppliers in every industry.

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Scout Today dashboard showing saved-search matches, deadlines and buyer activity.
Current Scout product: Today brings matches, deadlines and buyer activity into one working view.
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Official evidenceNotices retain their source identifiers and a route back to the published record.
Across industriesSearch by what your organisation sells, then understand the buyers behind the activity.

From a broad market to the next useful action.

Public procurement produces planning, tender, award and contract records. Scout turns that published activity into three practical supplier jobs.

  1. Find the right activity

    Search procurement notices from Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and Public Contracts Scotland with useful dates, stages, values and industry filters.

  2. Understand the buyer

    Move from a notice into buyer publications, awards and related organisations before deciding where your team should spend time.

  3. Keep the work moving

    Save searches and notices, follow buyers, add tags or notes, export selected records and return to the latest activity in Today.

Resources

Start here.

Three practical guides take you from understanding the public market to finding an opportunity and reading its published evidence.

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  1. Guide

    What is public procurement?

    Understand how public bodies turn a need into a fair buying process, a supplier decision and a public contract.

  2. Guide

    How to find public-sector tenders

    Build a practical cross-industry search with buyer language, CPV codes, geography, notice stage and official-source verification.

  3. Guide

    How to read a public-sector tender notice

    Extract the source facts, test the practical bid conditions and keep estimates, normalised fields and supplier judgement separate.

Latest from Winston

News, updates and Winston Insights.

Follow material procurement changes, read original Winston Insights and find practical Resources grounded in published evidence.

    1. Procurement Act starts
    2. Original date, now deferred
    3. Award details move
    Winston Update

    Contracts Finder publication change moves to 1 May 2027

    The switch for older procurements was due on 1 October 2026. From 1 May 2027, their award details, including call-offs from older frameworks, are published on the Central Digital Platform instead.

  2. Winston Update

    New Social Value Model: what suppliers need to know for 2027

    Understand which central-government procurements PPN 026 affects, when the new 10% and 20% minimum weightings begin, and what suppliers can prepare now.

  3. Guide

    Selling to the NHS

    Map NHS bodies, national buying routes and tender portals across the UK, with the separate English and Welsh Provider Selection Regimes kept clear.

See the buyer behind the notice

Decide with the activity in view.

Buyer pages bring recent publications, awards and related organisations beside your account work. Every notice keeps its official source route for verification.

Take me to Scout
Scout buyer profile showing procurement activity, awards and buyer-following controls.
Current Scout product: a buyer profile connects published activity with the supplier's saved context.

Evidence boundary

The published record stays visible.

Scout organises public procurement records for practical supplier work. Source facts, normalised fields and labelled generated explanation remain distinct.

Start with the buyers and markets that matter to you.

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