FTSUK42026/S 000-024100SME
Reactive roofing repairs and planned replacement — general needs housing
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
45261900£2.4mcloses 21 AugWest Midlands
Find a Tender · Contracts Finder
Two portals publish every UK public contract. Almost none of them are yours.
The bureau drives Find a Tender and Contracts Finder through their own search — across 45 industry codes, 17 UK regions and nine filter fields — then reads every notice it brings back against your company and scores whether you could win it.
24sample notices24no filter set
- FTSSandwell Metropolitan Borough Council£2.4m
- FTSLeeds City Council£1.1mFTSUK42026/S 000-024322SME
Employer's agent and cost consultancy — housing delivery programme
Leeds City Council
71541000£1.1mcloses 26 AugYorkshire and the Humber - FTSUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust£31mFTSUK42026/S 000-024544
Hard FM and planned preventative maintenance
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
50700000£31mcloses 02 OctWest Midlands - FTSDepartment for Work and Pensions£3.4mFTSUK42026/S 000-024766
Penetration testing and red team services
Department for Work and Pensions
72820000£3.4mcloses 09 SepUnited Kingdom - FTSNHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board£46mFTSUK42026/S 000-024988
Domiciliary care and home support services
NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board
85310000£46mcloses 28 SepNorth West - FTSCrown Commercial Service£950mFTSUK142026/S 000-025210
Dynamic market — management consultancy
Crown Commercial Service
79400000£950mcloses 24 SepUnited Kingdom - FTSManchester City Council£14mFTSUK42026/S 000-025432
EV charging infrastructure — on-street and depot
Manchester City Council
31681500£14mcloses 25 SepNorth West - FTSNewcastle City Council£54mFTSUK42026/S 000-025654
Household waste collection and street cleansing
Newcastle City Council
90511000£54mcloses 08 OctNorth East - FTSHampshire County Council£27mFTSUK42026/S 000-025876SME
Home-to-school and SEN transport, 140 routes
Hampshire County Council
60130000£27mcloses 15 SepSouth East - FTSSheffield City Council£22mFTSUK42026/S 000-026098
School catering — primary and special schools
Sheffield City Council
55523100£22mcloses 24 SepYorkshire and the Humber - FTSDefence Infrastructure Organisation£96mFTSUK42026/S 000-026320
Hard FM — Defence Training Estate south
Defence Infrastructure Organisation
50700000£96mcloses 07 OctEngland - CFBelfast City Council£740kCFTenderCF-2026-84898SME
Uniforms, PPE and workwear
Belfast City Council
18100000£740kcloses 14 AugNorthern Ireland - FTSKarbon Homes£6.8mFTSUK42026/S 000-024137SME
Window and door replacement programme, phase 3
Karbon Homes
45421000£6.8mcloses 04 SepNorth East - FTSNorthern Ireland Housing Executive£24mFTSUK32026/S 000-024359
Multidisciplinary design services framework
Northern Ireland Housing Executive
71200000£24mcloses 11 SepNorthern Ireland - CFCroydon Council£1.7mCFTenderCF-2026-82089SME
Cleaning services — civic and depot buildings
Croydon Council
90911200£1.7mcloses 20 AugLondon - CFWigan Council£1.9mCFTenderCF-2026-82407SME
Managed service desk and end user compute
Wigan Council
72253100£1.9mcloses 22 AugNorth West - CFKent County Council£18mCFTenderCF-2026-82725SME
Children's residential placements — dynamic purchasing
Kent County Council
85311300£18mcloses 29 AugSouth East - CFSalford City Council£640kCFTenderCF-2026-83043SME
Interpretation and translation services
Salford City Council
79540000£640kcloses 17 AugNorth West - CFPlaces for People£8.6mCFTenderCF-2026-83361SME
Air source heat pump installation programme
Places for People
45331100£8.6mcloses 01 SepEngland - CFEnvironment Agency£16mCFTenderCF-2026-83679
Flood defence maintenance and asset works
Environment Agency
45246000£16mcloses 04 SepEngland - CFCornwall Council£3.6mCFTenderCF-2026-83997SME
Community transport and demand responsive services
Cornwall Council
60112000£3.6mcloses 21 AugSouth West - CFHarris Federation£1.6mCFTenderCF-2026-84315SME
EdTech platform and management information system
Harris Federation
48190000£1.6mcloses 19 AugLondon - CFMinistry of Defence£3.8mCFTenderCF-2026-84633SME
CCTV and access control upgrade, three sites
Ministry of Defence
35120000£3.8mcloses 20 AugSouth West - FTSNHS Supply Chain£45mFTSUK42026/S 000-026579
Office furniture and workplace fit-out
NHS Supply Chain
39130000£45mcloses 22 SepUnited Kingdom
The size of it
The money is public. Finding your share of it is the work.
- £300bn+
- UK public bodies — councils, NHS trusts, academy trusts, housing associations, police forces, universities — buy goods and services on this scale every year, and every pound of it is published as a notice before it is spent.
- Under £100k
- By value the headlines go to the £100m frameworks. By volume, most contracts are small enough that a regional firm can deliver them — which is exactly the band that gets lost in the feed.
- 21%
- Direct public sector spend with SMEs hit £45.2bn in 2025, a six-year high. The average hides the useful part: the share swings from 33% in some categories to 3% in others.
spent a year
where most of it sits
reaches SMEs directly
Where the notices come from
Two sources, and only one of them is current.
Since February 2025 these are not two equivalent feeds, and a supplier who treats them as one will miss things. The bureau states which is which rather than claiming full coverage from both.
Current
Find a Tender
find-tender.service.gov.uk
The central digital platform for procurements started under the Procurement Act 2023. Everything new is published here.
- Since
- 24 February 2025 — all new UK procurements
- Thresholds
- Above and below — England, Wales, Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- Above threshold only
- Notice types
- 16 Procurement Act forms, UK1–UK17 (there is no UK8)
- Filters
- All nine fields apply
Legacy
Contracts Finder
contractsfinder.service.gov.uk
The archive. Procurements started under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, historic awards, and framework call-offs still running under the old regime.
- Holds
- Legacy PCR 2015 procurements and historic awards
- Classified by
- Procurement stage only
- No filter for
- Notice type · commercial tool
- Ignored fields
- Reported back by the run, never silently dropped
- Use it for
- Incumbents, award history, renewal dates
Not ingested
Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales are not sources. Scottish below-threshold work published only on PCS will not appear, and neither will Welsh notices that never reach Find a Tender. If Scotland below threshold is your market, this is a gap you should know about before you pay for anything.
What a run actually returns
A search set on notice type will run in full against Find a Tender and run without that field against Contracts Finder. The run tells you which fields it had to ignore on which portal, so you know how wide the net really was rather than assuming it was narrower than it was.
Goods and services covered
112 trades, named the way you’d name them.
Not “environmental remediation solutions”. Asbestos removal. Type what you actually do and see whether it is in here — the twelve sectors below map onto the CPV divisions the scraper filters on, so what you find named is what a run can go and get.
All 12 sectors · 112 named trades · every one of them appears on both portals
- CPV 45 · 44 · 43
Construction & built environment
The largest block of contract value on both portals, and the one where below-threshold work is most likely to be reachable by a regional firm.
- New build and refurbishment
- Planned and reactive maintenance
- Roofing
- Windows and doors
- Cladding and fire safety remediation
- M&E installation
- Highways surfacing and drainage
- +6 more
Highest contract value on both portals concentrates in construction works (CPV 45).
See construction & built environment tenders - CPV 71 · 79
Design & professional services
Consultant appointments, usually let off a framework and usually ahead of the works they support — which is why they close early and quietly.
- Project management and employer's agent
- Cost consultancy and QS
- Architecture and multidisciplinary design
- Principal designer and CDM
- Structural engineering
- Civil engineering
- M&E engineering
- +5 more
Consultancy (CPV 79) is one of the four divisions where contract value concentrates.
See design & professional services tenders - CPV 90 · 50 · 55
Facilities management
Long contracts with predictable renewal cycles. The one area where an incumbent's end date is public information and worth diarising.
- Hard FM and PPM
- Cleaning
- Security guarding
- Catering
- Grounds maintenance
- Pest control
- Waste and recycling
- +4 more
- CPV 72 · 48 · 30
IT & digital
Heavily framework-led, but the below-threshold direct awards are where a specialist supplier actually gets in.
- Software licensing and resale
- Cloud hosting and migration
- Cybersecurity
- Penetration testing
- Digital transformation and service design
- Data platforms
- AI and automation
- +6 more
IT services (CPV 72) is one of the four divisions where contract value concentrates.
See it & digital tenders - CPV 85 · 33
Health & social care
Placement and package work is let continuously rather than in annual rounds, so the useful signal is a new framework or dynamic market opening.
- Domiciliary and home care
- Residential and nursing placements
- Supported living
- Mental health services
- Children's residential placements
- Agency and locum staffing
- Medical consumables and PPE
- +4 more
Healthcare supplies (CPV 33) is one of the four divisions where contract value concentrates.
See health & social care tenders - CPV 79 · 80
People & workforce
Almost entirely framework and dynamic market work. Getting onto the vehicle matters more than any single notice.
- Temporary and agency staffing
- Executive search
- Management consultancy
- Legal services
- Audit and accountancy
- HR and payroll
- Training and apprenticeship delivery
- +4 more
33% of spend in education, training and recruitment goes to SMEs — the highest share of any category.
See people & workforce tenders - CPV 09 · 31 · 71
Energy & net zero
The fastest-moving category, because carbon reduction KPIs are now written into contracts that are not otherwise about energy.
- Electricity and gas supply
- Renewable generation and PPAs
- EV charging infrastructure
- Fleet electrification
- Carbon reporting and verification
- Retrofit and insulation
- Heat pumps
- +1 more
Net zero is driving fleet electrification, renewable energy, sustainable construction and green FM, with carbon reduction KPIs now routine in contracts.
See energy & net zero tenders - CPV 90 · 77
Environment & waste
Council-dominated and geographically fixed. If you cover the district you can bid it; if you do not, no amount of price will fix that.
- Waste collection and disposal
- Recycling
- Flood defence and water management
- Biodiversity net gain
- Ecology surveys
- Environmental consultancy
- Contaminated land
- CPV 60 · 34 · 50
Transport & fleet
School and SEN transport is retendered on the academic year, so the notices cluster hard in spring for a September start.
- Home-to-school transport
- SEN transport
- Bus and community transport
- Vehicle supply and leasing
- Fleet maintenance
- Fuel supply
- Highways term maintenance
- CPV 80 · 55 · 30
Education
Academy trusts buy independently of the local authority, which multiplies the number of separate buyers publishing for the same thing.
- School catering
- School transport
- SEN and alternative provision
- EdTech and educational software
- Curriculum resources
- Tutoring and intervention
- School improvement and governance support
- CPV 35 · 75 · 79
Defence & security
Not only the primes. The estate behind the capability is bought like any other estate, and it is bought from ordinary suppliers.
- Defence estate FM and construction
- CCTV and access control
- Manned guarding
- Training and simulation
- Logistics and support services
The strongest growth in MOD spending has come from facilities management and construction, not the traditional defence primes.
See defence & security tenders - CPV 39 · 18 · 15 · 22
Goods & supplies
Low value per notice, high volume, and frequently below threshold — which makes it the most reachable category for a small supplier.
- Office furniture and workplace fit-out
- Uniforms, PPE and workwear
- Janitorial and hygiene consumables
- Food and beverage supply
- Print consumables
- Signage
- ICT peripherals
Before and after
A notice is written for the record. This turns it into a decision.
No dashboard screenshot. This is the actual shape of what goes in and what comes out.
What the portal publishes
2026/S 000-024100 UK4 Tender notice Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council Reactive roofing repairs and planned replacement — general needs housing CPV: 45261900, 45261910, 45261000, 45000000 NUTS: UKG3 Estimated total value (excl. VAT): 2,400,000 GBP Procedure: Open. Suitable for SMEs: yes. Suitable for VCSEs: no. Not awarded under a framework agreement or dynamic market. Award criteria: Price 40%, Quality 60%. Tenders must be submitted electronically via the Authority's e-tendering portal. The Authority reserves the right to abandon the procurement process at any stage without liability to any economic operator... Closing: 21 August 2026, 12:00
What the bureau files
Win likelihood
72 / 100
Confidence
Medium
Call
Pursue
Core reactive roofing at a scale you have delivered twice in the same region.
- Relevance
- 81
- matches your overview and two of three disciplines
- Track record
- 64
- two comparable housing contracts, neither above £2m
- Location
- 23 miles from your depot — inside your stated radius
- Competition
- Open procedure, SME-suitable — expect 8–14 bidders
- Resourcing
- Two crews for 18 months; you run four
- Timeline
- 3 weeks to close
- Gap
- No named £2m+ housing reference in your profile
What actually happens
Five steps, and it tells you where each one stopped.
- 01
Drive the portals
A real browser drives each portal's own search, so what comes back is what the portal returns — no undocumented API, no stale mirror. Notices are chunked, embedded locally and stored in a corpus that belongs to your account alone.
- 02
Match on two axes
Your profile splits in two. Overview and disciplines answer relevance — is this our kind of work? Past projects answer track record — could we credibly bid it? They are scored separately, because wanting the work and having done it are different questions and a tool that averages them tells you neither.
- 03
Assess each tender
Every shortlisted notice gets a structured bid assessment: a win likelihood out of 100, a confidence, a one-line verdict and a pursue / consider / decline call — with the location, cost, resourcing, competition and timeline factors that drove it, plus the risks and the gaps in your evidence.
- 04
Rank them against each other
Scores from independent assessments are not comparable — an 80 from one call is not reliably better than a 75 from another. A second pass reads the whole set at once and produces a calibrated ranking, a top pick and cross-tender portfolio notes.
- 05
File the report
Six sections, one model: cover and verdict, the ranked table, per-lead detail, the score distribution, the unassessed with reasons, and the session's scrape log. Preview it in the browser, download .docx or PDF, or have it emailed when the run finishes.
Where an SME can realistically win
The average share is 21%. The average is the least useful number here.
Direct public sector spend with SMEs reached £45.2bn in 2025, a six-year high, with local government the largest SME spender at £29.1bn. But it is not spread evenly, and the unevenness is the part worth acting on.
Education, training and recruitment33%
share of spend going to SMEs
Defence and aerospace3%
share of spend going to SMEs
An eleven-fold difference between two categories on the same portals. Knowing which side of that you sit on changes which notices are worth three days of bid time — and it is the sort of thing you learn from award history, which is exactly what the Contracts Finder archive is good for.
The two suitability flags
Buyers mark notices as suitable for SMEs and for VCSEs, and both are filter fields on each portal. Setting them narrows a run to the work a buyer has already decided a smaller supplier can deliver — which is a far better first cut than value or region.
Suitable for SMEsSuitable for VCSEs
What it costs
You pay for the model calls. Everything else is included.
Driving the portals, building your corpus, searching it and rendering the report cost the bureau compute rather than model calls, so they are not metered. Every run is quoted before it starts and reconciled to what it actually cost.
- A typical tender
- 500–900 credits
- at standard effort
- A 12-tender run
- ≈ 3,000 credits
- about $0.30
- Scraping and searching
- Free
- no model call involved
- Reports, .docx, PDF, email
- Free
- no model call involved
Close the tab at tender 12 of 40 and you pay for 12 — every assessment is written to your account before it reaches your screen. The full pricing page sets out how a run is quoted, reserved and reconciled.
Set the filters once. Read the verdicts.
12 sectors · 112 named trades · 45 CPV divisions · 17 UK regions · 16 Procurement Act notice types