How to Find UK Government Contracts in 2026
A step-by-step guide to the UK government procurement portals and how to use them effectively to find contracts for your business.
Finding government contracts used to mean checking half a dozen portals every morning. Here's how to streamline your search.
The UK Government Portal Landscape
The UK procurement ecosystem is spread across several portals:
- Contracts Finder — the main portal for contracts above £12,000
- Find a Tender — for contracts above the procurement threshold (approx. £138,000)
- Sell2Wales — Welsh Government and public sector bodies
- PCS Scotland — Scottish public sector contracts
- UKRI — research and innovation grants
The Problem with Manual Searching
Each portal has a different search interface, different filter options, and different data formats. A typical procurement manager spends 2–3 hours per week just checking these portals — time that could be spent on bid writing.
How Minted Tenders Helps
Minted Tenders aggregates all of the above (plus US portals) into a single feed. You get:
- One search across all sources
- AI summaries so you can triage in seconds
- Saved searches with email alerts
- A tracking board to manage your pipeline
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