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Government tenders from UK public buyers

Government tenders open now: 43. In the 12 months to 22 October 2026, UK public buyers published 7,340 matching notices. The newest recorded award went to Canvs Ltd on 26 Mar 2026.

Checked against primary sources3 sources linked below

Government tenders published each month, October 2025 to October 2026: bar chart of 7,340 UK notices
Notices per month, UK time. All matched by text.

Which government tenders are open now?

43 notices with a deadline still ahead on 22 October 2026, closing soonest first, all matched by text.

Government tenders matched by text

Each title, buyer or stated region matches this hub’s rule. That is a word match, not a judgment of what is bought.

No stated deadline: 14 tender notices from the last 60 days

These are tender-stage notices whose source gives no deadline and no ended status. They are not counted as open above: check the official record before treating one as live.

Showing the newest 10.

Showing 30 of 43. Search every open notice for “Central government”.

Which buyers publish the most Central government notices?

Ministry of Defence, with 996 notices of 7,340 in the 12 months to 22 October 2026.

  1. Ministry of Defence996
  2. National Highways Limited973
  3. Ministry of Justice794
  4. Department for Education620
  5. Environment Agency539
  6. Home Office469
  7. Department for Business & Trade190
  8. Department for Work & Pensions168

Count of notices by the buyer name as published, 7,340 notices in the window, read 22 October 2026.

How many Central government notices are published each month?

About 600 a month over the last eleven full months; the busiest month was March 2026, with 704.

1037 of the 3986 Central government notices that stated a GBP value in the last 12 months fell in this band (26%). 4 of the open notices listed above are in it.

Counts come from this page’s data. A stated estimate is not the contract value, and frameworks are excluded.

StageNotices
Contract4,059
Award2,397
Planning530
Tender204
Pre-procurement53
Pipeline44
Tender cancellation37
implementation16
Stage as the source records it, of 7,340 notices in the 12 months to 22 October 2026.
Stated valueNotices
Under £25,000320
£25,000 to £100,0001,037
£100,000 to £500,0001,084
£500,000 to £2 million625
£2 million or more920
Only the 3,986 notices that state a GBP value, excluding frameworks, placeholders of £1,000 or less and ceilings of £100 million or more. An estimate in a notice is not a contract value.

Who has won Central government contracts recently?

Avella Security Ltd won 1 of the award notices read for this hub, the most of any supplier.

The newest award

On 26 Mar 2026, Department of Health & Social Care recorded an award to Canvs Ltd for “DHSC Simplify & Deliver”, at a recorded value of £259,750.

Read the award notice. Legacy award record; supplier allocation and signed-contract status unverified

SupplierAward notices won
Avella Security Ltd1
British Telecommunications plc CO71
CRIMESTOPPERS TRUST1
Canvs Ltd1
National Grid Electricity Distribution1
Network Research Belgium - Unisystems1
Socotec UK Limited1
Distinct notices per supplier, from the newest 200 of 6,456 award and contract notices in the window. From the legacy award table, which ends on 23 July 2026. A count of awards, never a sum of spend.

What counts as government tenders here?

Notices published by UK central government: departments, ministries and their executive agencies, such as the Home Office, HM Revenue and Customs and the Crown Commercial Service. Councils, the NHS and the Ministry of Defence's own hub are counted separately.

Classified

The notice’s recorded classification (proposed by a model, each label checked by Jev) accepted this catalogue subject: central government buyers. Classified notices are not yet published to public pages, so none appear here yet.

Matched by text

The buyer's name contains one of: department for, department of, ministry of, home office, cabinet office, hm revenue, hm treasury, hm land registry, hm prison, crown commercial service, government property agency, environment agency, national highways. A word match is not a judgment of what is bought, so these are labelled as matches.

  1. Open the official notice

    Every notice above links to its page here and to its record on Find a Tender or Contracts Finder. The documents there are the tender; this page is not.
  2. Check the dates

    Note the deadline and any clarification or expression-of-interest date. Forecast and planning notices have no bid deadline yet.
  3. Check the route to market

    A framework or dynamic purchasing system call-off needs a place on that agreement first; an open procedure does not.
  4. Look at who won before

    The winners above show who has delivered this kind of contract recently and for which buyers.

Read the buyer’s own notice before you spend a day on any of these.

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  1. 43 notices open now

    Listed above, closing soonest first, each linked to its page and the official record.
  2. Ministry of Defence published 996 notices

    The most of any buyer here, out of 7,340 in the last 12 months.
  3. Avella Security Ltd won 1 award

    The most of any supplier in the 200 award and contract notices read for this hub.
  4. About 600 notices a month

    Published on average over the last 11 full months, from 7,340 in the 12-month window.

Questions about this page

Short answers, with the figures read for this page.

How many government tenders are open now?
43 notices with a stated deadline still ahead on 22 October 2026, all matched by text. Another 14 tender notices from the last 60 days state no deadline and are listed separately. The list is read again every day.
Where are these notices published?
On Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, the UK government's two public notice services. Each notice on this site links to its official record there; read that record and its documents before deciding to bid.
How does a notice get into this hub?
By its title, buyer or stated region matching the hub's rule. Classified notices will be added here when they are published to public pages; a text match is never presented as a classification.
Are EU, Scottish and Welsh portals included?
No. Only Find a Tender and Contracts Finder are read. EU (TED) notices are never added to these UK counts, and notices that appear only on Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales or eTendersNI are not here.

Hubs that share buyers or suppliers with this one, and the full tender index.

Sources and method

Read at
22 October 2026, regenerated daily
Window
22 October 2025 to 22 October 2026, by publication date
Classification
Not yet published to public pages
  • Classified notices are not yet published to public pages, so every notice here is matched by text.
  • A text match means the notice's title, buyer or stated region fits this hub's rule. It is not a judgment of what is bought.
  • Open means a stated deadline still in the future. Tender notices with no stated deadline are listed separately, and only when published in the last 60 days; planning and forecast notices are not counted as open.
  • Award records come from the legacy award table, whose newest record is 23 July 2026.
  • Winners are read from the newest 200 of 6456 award and contract notices in the window.
  • UK notices from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder only. EU (TED) notices are not counted.

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