Search public sector opportunities with Stotles

A free tool for searching UK and Irish public sector tenders in one place. It aggregates notices from 100+ government and private portals so suppliers can find opportunities without logging into each source separately. The free portal covers search and filtering. Paid Stotles adds alerts, pre-tender intelligence, buyer profiles, bid tooling and CRM-style pipeline management.

Most free tender search tools are single-portal (Contracts Finder alone, for example) or ad-heavy aggregators. This one pulls from every major UK and Irish source into a single search.

Live and historic public sector notices across the UK (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) and Ireland. That includes open tenders, contract awards, and pre-tender notices under the Procurement Act 2023: Planned Procurement Notices, Pipeline Notices and Preliminary Market Engagement Notices. Coverage spans central government, local authorities, the NHS, education, defence, blue light services and arm's length bodies.

100+ sources, aggregated and deduplicated. That includes the main UK government portals (Find a Tender / the Central Digital Platform, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales, eTendersNI), the Irish tender portal (eTenders), and buyer-side e-sourcing platforms like Jaggaer, Proactis, Atamis, In-tend and Delta.

Continuously. 2,891 new notices were added in the last seven days. New notices appear in search within hours of being published to source portals.

No. Search is free and open — you can look through every notice without signing up. An account is required to save a search and set alerts on it, so matching notices reach you as they're published.

Create a free account, set your keywords, CPV codes, buyer types or locations, and choose your alert frequency. Matching notices arrive by email as they're published. There's no limit on the number of searches you can save.

A formal request from a government buyer inviting suppliers to bid for a contract. UK contracting authorities are legally required to advertise most contracts above set thresholds. Suppliers respond with a written proposal and are scored against published criteria. Read the full definition in the glossary.

The free portal covers tender search, filtering and basic notice detail. Paid Stotles adds:

• Email and in-app alerts matched to your ICP
• Pre-tender intelligence (PPNs, Pipeline Notices, PMEs) so you can engage buyers before the RFP
• Full buyer profiles: spend history, incumbent suppliers, expiring contracts, key contacts
• Framework tracking and call-off visibility
• Bid workspace, AI drafting and content library
• CRM-style pipeline and team collaboration

See the pricing page for a full comparison.

You can search for tenders on the free Stotles portal. It pulls together notices from 100+ UK public sector portals, so you can search them all in one place. You don't need an account to search. The official government portals are free too. Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK. Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI carry lower-value ones in each nation. Each portal has its own search and only shows its own notices, so you need to check them one at a time.

Start by reading the tender notice and documents to check you meet the conditions of participation. Register on the buyer's e-tendering portal, and on the Central Digital Platform if the procurement runs under the Procurement Act 2023. Send any clarification questions before the buyer's cut-off. Then answer each question against the published award criteria, attach the documents requested and submit before the deadline. Late bids are usually rejected.

For above-threshold procurements under the Procurement Act 2023, you need a supplier ID from the Central Digital Platform and up-to-date core supplier information. That covers your company details, recent financial accounts, connected persons and exclusion declarations. Buyers often also ask for insurance certificates, policies such as health and safety, case studies of similar work, and accreditations like Cyber Essentials or ISO certification. Central government contracts worth over £5 million a year also need a published Carbon Reduction Plan.

Procurement is the whole process a public body follows to buy goods, works or services. It covers planning the need, choosing a procedure, awarding the contract and managing it afterwards. Tendering is one stage of that process, when the buyer formally invites suppliers to bid and evaluates what comes back. Some contracts are procured without a tender at all, for example through a direct award or a call-off from a framework.

Stotles helps you spot opportunities before they reach a portal. It collects buyer documents, such as board papers, strategies and budget reports, that show what a public body plans to buy. It also flags contracts due to expire 12 to 24 months ahead. Buyer profiles show what each organisation buys, who supplies it and who makes the decisions. Supplier profiles show which contracts your competitors hold and when they end. That gives your team time to speak to buyers before the tender is written.