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Public-sector contracts your business could actually win
The government aims to put £1 in every £3 with small businesses — but nobody has time to read Contracts Finder. Enter your business and we’ll read this week’s open tenders and show the ones that genuinely fit what you do. Free, no sign-up.
About the Tender Radar
What it actually checks
- It reads this week’s open notices on Contracts Finder, the government’s public notice service for contracts across councils, the NHS, schools and departments (open data under the Open Government Licence).
- It works out what your business does from the public record and your website, then matches the open tenders to it and explains each fit in plain English.
- Every match shows the buyer, the deadline, the value where the notice gives one, and a link to the original notice.
- An honest zero is a real result: if nothing this week fits, it says so rather than padding the list.
How to read your result
- The fit score is a starting judgement, not a bid decision. Read the notice; the scope and the paperwork decide whether it’s worth your week.
- Open tenders change every week. Three free scans a day per connection; members get new matches every week with an alert.
- The government’s stated aim is to spend £1 in every £3 with small businesses. Most of that money moves through notices exactly like these, which most small firms never read.
Questions people ask
- Do you bid for me?
- No. The radar finds and explains; bidding is yours. If you want help shaping a bid, that’s Workshop work, scoped and priced per job.
- Why are some matches nothing like my trade?
- Matching is done from how your business describes itself publicly. If your site doesn’t say clearly what you do, the matches drift. Fixing that helps here and everywhere else.
- Are these the only public contracts?
- No. Contracts Finder carries notices above set thresholds; smaller purchases are often placed directly or through frameworks. It’s the largest open feed, not the whole market.