Contracts Finder

Source universe · Acquisition routes

Empirical intelligence · Official API · Public

Published by Contracts Finder, Cabinet Office. Jurisdiction: UK.

What it covers

• public procurement
• contract opportunities
• awards
• suppliers

Publication and history

Publisher-controlled statistical or public-record release; revisions and release dates must be retained.

Published notices and version histories exposed by the official OCDS route.

Review cadence: Daily. Reliability: Empirical dataset.

Acquisition and rights

• Acquisition: Official API

• Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0

• Commercial reuse: Permitted with attribution

• Raw storage: Permitted

• Derived assertions: Permitted

• Public use: Attributed derived content

• Visibility: Public

Use the published OCDS API (https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/apidocumentation); respect endpoint rate limits, notice updates and OGL exceptions.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; credited third-party material remains excluded.

Evidence for this decision

• Contracts Finder access — Access evidence, reviewed 11 September 2026.
• Contracts Finder reuse terms — Licence evidence, reviewed 11 September 2026.

Source registry: sterling-source-registry@2026-09-11.5. Last reviewed 11 September 2026.