Find awarded contracts

A contract award notice is the formal publication that confirms a public sector buyer has awarded a contract to a supplier. Under the Procurement Act 2023, buyers must publish an award notice at the point of award and observe an 8-working-day standstill period before the contract can be signed. The notice sets out who won, the value, the scope, and the contract duration.

A typical award notice includes:

• The buyer and the winning supplier
• The contract title, scope and CPV codes
• The contract value and duration, with start and end dates
• The procurement procedure used
• The evaluation criteria and, in many cases, the scores of unsuccessful bidders

The duration is the detail that matters most for pipeline building. It tells you when the same requirement will come back to market.

Every award is a future tender. Public sector contracts have finite terms, usually two to five years, and re-procurement typically starts six to twelve months before the current contract expires. Award notices tell you:

• Which buyers are actively spending in your category
• Who the incumbent supplier is and what they were paid
• When the contract is due to end, so you know when to start engaging

Working backwards from award end dates lets you build a qualified pipeline before opportunities are advertised. That pre-tender window is when incumbents are most exposed and challengers can shape the requirement.

Expiry dates come from the contract duration published in the award notice. Stotles tracks 48,160 upcoming contract expiries across UK public sector buyers and surfaces them by buyer, supplier and category. That lets you prioritise the incumbents most vulnerable to challenge and pre-engage buyers before the next tender is drafted. See how expiring contracts fit into the wider workflow on our build pipeline page.

Award notices are published across several sources:

• Find a Tender for above-threshold awards under the Procurement Act 2023
• Contracts Finder for awards in England
• Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTenders for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland
• Individual council, NHS trust, university and framework portals

The same problems that apply to open tenders apply here: fragmented sources, inconsistent CPV tagging and duplicate records. Stotles aggregates award notices from 100+ sources into a single searchable list of awarded government contracts, filterable by buyer, supplier, CPV code, value or award date.

Competitive award. The contract is awarded following an open or competitive flexible procedure, with published notices and evaluation criteria.

Direct award. The buyer awards the contract to a specific supplier without a competitive process. Under the Procurement Act 2023, direct awards are permitted only in narrowly defined circumstances, such as extreme urgency or absence of competition, and the buyer must publish a transparency notice before signing.

Both types produce a contract award notice, and both feed into the same expiry data you can use for pipeline planning.

UK public sector buyers publish new awards every working day. Stotles adds around 2,209 new award notices in the trailing seven days on average. Set alerts by buyer, supplier or CPV code to see relevant awards as they land, and let expiring incumbent contracts feed straight into your pipeline.