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UK Contract Expiry Radar - Recompete Leads

UK public contracts ending soon with incumbent supplier, buyer, value and contact - recompete leads from Contracts Finder award notices.

UK Contract Expiry Radar turns Contracts Finder award notices (the UK government portal for contracts, without Find a Tender) into a list of public contracts that are about to end. For every contract it returns the incumbent supplier (with Companies House number), the buying organisation, the award value, the contract start and end dates, and how many days are left. Filter by expiry window, CPV code, keyword and value, then export the result as JSON, CSV or Excel, call it through the Apify API, or plug it into n8n, Make and AI agents through MCP.

Who is it for?

• Bid and sales teams who want to know which public contracts come up for recompete in the next 6 to 18 months, before the tender is published.
• Consultancies and agencies that sell to a specific buyer type and want a shortlist of incumbents to approach.
• Market analysts who track contract length, extension options and supplier concentration by sector.

How to use it

1. Set the expiry window: for example 0 to 12 months to list contracts that end within a year, or 6 to 18 months to skip the ones already too close to tender.
2. Optionally add keywords (title, description, buyer or supplier), CPV prefixes (for example 72 for IT services or 45 for construction) and a minimum value.
3. Choose how far back to read award notices, then run the Actor.
4. Download the dataset or fetch it from the API.

Contracts Finder publishes roughly one to two hundred award notices per working day (1 to 2 API requests) and very few at weekends (0 to 9 per day), so a longer lookback window reads more notices and takes longer. The default is 7 days with a 240-second time budget; raise both together for a longer scan.

What data do you get?

Each record includes the notice title and description, buyer name, locality and website, incumbent supplier with Companies House number and company size, all suppliers for multi-supplier awards, award value and currency, award and publication dates, contract start and end dates, days and months to expiry, contract length, main and additional CPV codes, procurement method, a framework call-off flag taken from the procurement procedure field, a separate flag for call-off wording in the text, an extension-clause flag, SME suitability, a link to the original notice and a dispute marker (recordDisputed) for the rare award that was published twice with conflicting values. The buyer contact email is off by default and can be switched on in the input.

Is it legal to use this data?

The Actor reads only information the UK government publishes openly under the Open Government Licence through the Contracts Finder API. It does not log in or bypass any access control. Contact details, if you enable them, are personal data in some cases: you are responsible for using them in line with applicable data protection law. This description is not legal advice.

Output fields

Every result is one flat record, so it drops straight into a spreadsheet, a database or a CRM.

Sample record

{
  "query": "software",
  "id": "ocds-b5fd17-82384ae3-342e-49e5-aba3-f07a7b4a2787-1",
  "ocid": "ocds-b5fd17-82384ae3-342e-49e5-aba3-f07a7b4a2787",
  "title": "UOW995b - Virtual Placement Software - AWARD",
  "description": "The University of Worcester is seeking to procure a Virtual Placement Simulation Software Platform.",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1fcc1776-84a0-4171-9c5b-f245323ded52",
  "buyerName": "University Of Worcester",
  "buyerId": "GB-CFS-44290",
  "buyerLocality": "Worcester",
  "buyerPostcode": "WR2 6AJ",
  "buyerWebsite": "https://www.worcester.ac.uk/",
  "buyerContactEmail": "procurement@example.org.uk",
  "supplierName": "Insight Direct (UK) Ltd",
  "supplierCount": 1,
  "allSuppliers": "Alpha Ltd; Beta Ltd",
  "supplierCompanyNumber": "02343760",
  "supplierScale": "sme",
  "supplierVcse": false,
  "awardValue": 318979.29,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "awardDate": "2026-08-20T23:00:00.000Z",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-23T12:09:20.000Z",
  "contractStart": "2026-09-30T23:00:00.000Z",
  "contractEnd": "2029-09-30T22:59:59.000Z",
  "daysToExpiry": 1096,
  "monthsToExpiry": 36,
  "contractLengthMonths": 36,
  "cpvCode": "48100000",
  "cpvDescription": "Industry specific software package",
  "additionalCpvCodes": "48000000, 72000000",
  "category": "services",
  "procurementMethod": "selective",
  "procurementMethodDetails": "Restricted procedure",
  "frameworkCallOff": false,
  "callOffMentioned": false,
  "extensionMentioned": false,
  "smeSuitable": false,
  "recordDisputed": false,
  "disputedFields": "awardValue",
  "disputedOtherValues": "awardValue=504113",
  "found": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-30T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Input

Call it from your code

Run the Actor and get the results in one request. Replace YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN with the token from your Apify account settings.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/datagrit~uk-contract-expiry-radar/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"expiresAfterMonths":0,"expiresBeforeMonths":12,"publishedLookbackDays":7,"maxItems":20}'

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('datagrit/uk-contract-expiry-radar').call({
  "expiresAfterMonths": 0,
  "expiresBeforeMonths": 12,
  "publishedLookbackDays": 7,
  "maxItems": 20
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.length, items[0]);

from apify_client import ApifyClient
import os

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run = client.actor("datagrit/uk-contract-expiry-radar").call(run_input={
  "expiresAfterMonths": 0,
  "expiresBeforeMonths": 12,
  "publishedLookbackDays": 7,
  "maxItems": 20
})
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
print(len(items), items[0] if items else None)

Runnable Node.js and Python examples: github.com/getdatagrit/uk-contract-expiry-radar.

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