Portals
UK tender portals: the complete list
There is no single UK tender portal. There is one statutory notice board, one legacy board still winding down, three devolved ones, and roughly 63 named eSourcing platforms running around 653 separate buyer-facing sites between them. In-tend alone accounts for about 358, because every buyer gets its own subdomain and its own registration.
Last reviewed 2026-09-14. Portals rebrand, merge and move, so check a registration route before relying on it.
All four UK portals in one email
Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales, read every weekday and scored against what you do, in one email before 9am. You only register on a buyer's platform when a tender is worth bidding for. 30 days free, no card needed.
The reason for the sprawl
Why there are so many
The Procurement Act 2023 centralised where notices are published. Almost every above-threshold UK contract now appears on Find a Tender, which is a genuine improvement on hunting across dozens of sites to discover that work exists at all.
It did nothing about where bids are submitted. Each buyer still chooses its own eSourcing platform, still runs its own supplier registration, and still sets its own document rules. So the finding got easier and the responding did not, and that split is the whole problem. It is not going away, because nothing in the Act requires a common submission route.
The practical consequence: you need to watch four boards, and you need an account on whichever platform sits behind the specific contract you want. Not all 67.
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If you have no accounts at all
Start here, in this order
- 1. Register on Find a Tender. It is free, it is the statutory home of UK notices, and the supplier record you create on the Central Digital Platform is increasingly reused elsewhere. Everyone needs this one.
- 2. Add your nation's board. Contracts Finder for England and UK-wide central government, Public Contracts Scotland, or Sell2Wales. Scotland needs two accounts, because PCS advertises and PCS-Tender receives the bid.
- 3. Register on a platform only when you have found the work. Wait until you have a live contract worth bidding for, then register on whichever platform that buyer uses. Do it as soon as you decide to bid rather than the day before the deadline, because account approval is not always instant.
- 4. Get an accreditation only when a buyer asks for one. They carry annual fees and renewal dates, and paying for one speculatively is money spent ahead of any evidence you need it.
Common questions
UK tender portals
What is a tender portal?
A website public buyers use either to publish tender notices or to receive bids. The two matter for different reasons: notice boards such as Find a Tender, Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales are where opportunities are advertised, and eSourcing platforms such as In-tend, ProContract, Atamis and Jaggaer are where you download the documents and submit your bid.
Which tender portal should I register on first?
Find a Tender. It is free, it is where new UK procurements under the Procurement Act 2023 are published, and the supplier record you create on it is increasingly reused elsewhere. Then add Public Contracts Scotland or Sell2Wales if you sell there, and register on an eSourcing platform only when a buyer you want to bid to uses it.
Are UK tender portals free?
Mostly. All 5 notice boards in this list are free, and all 21 eSourcing platforms are free to register on and bid through. Frameworks are usually free to bid for, but most take a fee or levy on what you sell through them. Accreditations such as Cyber Essentials or the health and safety schemes charge an annual fee.
Do I need to register on every tender portal?
No. Watch the notice boards for the work, and register on an eSourcing platform only when you have found a contract you want to bid for on it. Each buyer chooses its own platform, and In-tend alone runs a separate site and registration for each buyer, so registering everywhere in advance is wasted effort. Register as soon as you decide to bid, because approval is not always instant.
What is the difference between Find a Tender and Contracts Finder?
Find a Tender is where new UK procurements are published since the Procurement Act 2023 came into force on 24 February 2025, including lower value work from £12,000 (central government) or £30,000 (other public bodies). Contracts Finder carries procurements begun under the old 2015 rules. Our page on where UK tenders are published explains both.
Where can I see upcoming government contracts?
Two places. Buyers publish planned procurement and preliminary market engagement notices on Find a Tender before they tender. And contracts already awarded show when they end, which is when most are re-tendered: Tender Radar's renewals pages list public contracts ending in the next 18 months.
For what each national notice board carries and misses, see Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and where UK tenders are published. For contracts coming up for renewal, see public contracts ending soon.
You do not need an account on all 67. You do need to know which four are statutory, and you need to see what appears on them every morning. Tender Radar watches Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales, scores every notice against your business, and emails you the handful that matter.
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