Winston IntelligenceOfficial UK notice services
Find a Tender is the Central Digital Platform, but it does not make every other official service redundant. Suppliers still need the English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish journeys for the records, documents and response routes they own.
Start with Find a Tender for new Procurement Act notices. Check Contracts Finder for its English opportunity, pipeline, award and earlier-regime records.
Search Public Contracts Scotland for the national high- and low-value catalogue; check Find a Tender where the procurement also publishes there.
Use Sell2Wales and Find a Tender together. The Welsh supplier journey and tender response can remain on Sell2Wales even when central publication also exists.
Use eTendersNI and Find a Tender together. Some Northern Irish records reach both; neither display establishes the size of the eTendersNI-only band.
Five services, different jobs
Use this table to choose a starting point, then follow the live notice and documents.
Search notices across the Procurement Act lifecycle, save searches and manage reusable supplier information on the Central Digital Platform.
Do not miss: Below-threshold Scottish notices are excluded, and older or specialist routes can follow different publication rules.
Open the official serviceSearch English opportunities, future opportunities, awards and contracts, including records from the earlier Contracts Finder publication journey.
Do not miss: For new Procurement Act below-threshold publication, Find a Tender is now the central service. Do not treat Contracts Finder as the whole English market.
Open the official serviceSearch Scottish public-sector notices, buyers and awards; register for alerts, documents, interest and Quick Quote visibility.
Do not miss: The response may move into PCS-Tender, the PCS Postbox or another route named in the notice.
Open the official serviceSearch Welsh notices, projects, buyers and awards; maintain supplier and alert profiles and use the tendering tools named by the buyer.
Do not miss: New suppliers first need their Central Digital Platform organisation identifier. Search both Welsh and central publication views.
Open the official serviceFind opportunities from Northern Irish government departments, agencies and arm’s-length bodies, receive notifications and respond through the tender workspace.
Do not miss: Find a Tender can carry connected notices, but the quantity of eTendersNI-only activity is not measured by that central feed.
Open the official serviceDistinct supplier journeys
England needs no cosmetic location page: its useful service choice is fully explained above.
Scout source boundary
“Direct” describes Winston’s acquisition route; it does not mean complete portal, historical or UK coverage.
| Service | Scout route | Direct? | Known limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Find a Tender | Direct official OCDS ingestion | Yes | Retained history and fields are bounded; source publication is not every procurement activity. |
| Contracts Finder | Direct official OCDS ingestion | Yes | Useful English and legacy/lower-value record set, not a complete current English market. |
| Public Contracts Scotland | Direct official OCDS ingestion | Yes | Source fields can be incomplete; public or invited activity outside the feed is not inferred. |
| Sell2Wales | No independent adapter | No | Some Welsh notices arrive through Find a Tender. Sell2Wales-only coverage is unknown because its official machine routes are unusable. |
| eTendersNI | No independent adapter | No | Some Northern Irish notices arrive through Find a Tender. The eTendersNI-only band is unknown because no lawful machine-readable feed is available. |
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Primary sources
Winston checked these official pages on 30 August 2026. Current notices and service guidance remain authoritative.