Guides
Written for people who bid: where the work publishes, what the Procurement Act changed, and how to read award data without repeating the mistakes that turn a £120bn framework ceiling into somebody's revenue. Every figure is traceable to a published notice.
Two official services, overlapping since February 2025, still not interchangeable. Here is what each one holds and what neither of them will show you.
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The winner is easy. The amount is where award data goes wrong, and a framework ceiling read as revenue can overstate a company by a factor of ten.
A chat window over a dashboard is not the interesting part. Giving an agent the underlying data, with provenance, is.
Most public money now moves through frameworks. If you are watching tender notices you are watching the wrong thing, because the competition that mattered happened years ago.
Every figure below is cited to the instrument that sets it. Most of them fell on 1 January 2026, which is not what people expect a threshold revision to do.
Transparency was the point, and it worked — the trail is now long enough to read a buyer's intentions months ahead, if you know which notices to watch.
Every tender alert you receive is filtered through eight digits somebody else chose. Getting your side of that right is the cheapest improvement available to most suppliers.
A whole tier of winnable contracts sits on Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales, and a UK-wide search will not show you any of it.
There is no volume setting that fixes a badly built feed. The failure is usually in the targeting, and it is diagnosable in an afternoon.
Win rate is not the metric that matters. Cost per win is — and the fastest way to improve it is to stop entering competitions you were never going to win.
Ireland is an open, English-speaking, EU-rules market next door. The barriers are practical rather than legal, and most of them are avoidable.
Look up any supplier's public-contract history, or read the daily award league tables. No account, no card.