Think inside your AI world.
How do I get notified of new government tenders in my sector without paying monthly?
New public tenders are published as open data the day they go live, on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder. The services that email you alerts are reselling that same open feed for ninety-nine to several hundred pounds a month. What you pay them for is a filter, and the filter, your CPV codes, your value floor, your deadline window, is a rule you can state yourself.
The construction is the open contracts data plus your bid rule. Find a Tender and Contracts Finder publish notices as OCDS, keyless; Companies House adds the buyer detail with a free key. Your rule is “my CPV codes, over a value floor, with enough runway to bid.” Through Unl a matching notice arrives beside that rule when your pipeline comes up in conversation, stamped with when it was published and when it closes. The data was always public; the fee was only ever for the filter.
The person
A supplier or small firm that bids for public work in a defined set of categories and a sensible value band. They do not want to read the whole government gazette; they want the handful of notices that fit what they actually deliver and could actually win.
The pieces, and how far each one reaches
| Source | What it gives you | Reach today |
|---|---|---|
| Find a Tender Service, OCDS | Higher-value public sector notices as structured open data: category codes, value, buyer and closing date, so a notice can be matched to your rule. | Keyless open data. The same feed the paid alert services resell. |
| Contracts Finder, OCDS | Lower-value and below-threshold opportunities as open data, for the smaller contracts that never reach Find a Tender. | Keyless open data. |
| Companies House API | The buyer’s filing detail, for judging whether a buyer or a framework is one you want to bid into. | Free with a key; a shape Unl verifies before it stores anything. |
The incumbents that charge roughly ninety-nine to four hundred and seventy-five pounds a month broadcast alerts on exactly this open data; stating that is a factual description of how the market prices a public feed, not a complaint about any one of them. The honest limit here is matching quality, not access: CPV codes are coarse and buyers describe work inconsistently, so a rule tuned to your categories still wants a human eye on the edge cases. Paste-time verification confirms the feeds return before any promise is made.
The rule, in their words
- “My CPV codes, and contract value over 50,000 pounds.”
- “At least three weeks between publication and the closing date.”
- “In my region, or explicitly remote-deliverable.”
The compound is the point: category AND value AND runway AND region, all at once. A paid alert on a single CPV code still floods you with sub-threshold work and things closing on Friday. The requirement that a notice be your category AND worth bidding AND leave you time AND be deliverable is what the monthly fee never actually gave you.
Unprompted
Your AI
One notice crosses your rule: your CPV codes, over 50,000 pounds, at least three weeks to close, in region or remote. A Find a Tender notice went live this morning for IT services under your CPV set, valued at 180,000 pounds, closing in twenty-four days, delivery listed as remote.
That is straight from the open Find a Tender data, published today. It is the same feed the paid alert services charge a monthly fee to forward.
The notice arrived against the supplier’s own four-part bid rule, from a public feed, with no subscription in the middle. Whether to bid is theirs.
Why this beats the dashboard
The paid services broadcast the same open notices to every subscriber and let you filter on a category or two; your rule is category AND value AND deadline AND region, and it surfaces when your pipeline is actually the subject. You read a notice already measured against what you will genuinely bid for, from data that was public all along, without a recurring fee for a filter you can state in a sentence.
Getting notified of government tenders in your sector without paying monthly is the open contracts data held against your own bid rule; through Unl a notice that clears it arrives beside “my CPV codes, over 50,000 pounds, three weeks to close, in region”, stamped with when it was published and when it closes, and your bid rule does the sorting, not a paid broadcast.
Reads through Unl arrive with measured context — in the presence of the decisions you’ve already settled. The reach lane is live: one box, paste anything. If it speaks MCP, Unl can reach it. Readings arrive unprompted, the data beside the criterion; Unl is a courier, not a warehouse, and keeps only your keys and the frame.
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Questions people ask
Is this really the same data the paid services use?
Yes. Find a Tender and Contracts Finder publish notices as OCDS open data, keyless, and the alert services that charge a monthly fee are forwarding that same public feed with a filter on top. Stating the fee range is a factual description of how the market prices open data, not a criticism of any particular provider; what Unl changes is that your own compound rule does the filtering, in the conversation, at no subscription.
Will it catch every relevant tender?
The honest limit is matching, not access. CPV codes are coarse and buyers describe work inconsistently, so a rule tuned to your categories will still want a human eye on the borderline notices. The feeds themselves are open and verified at paste time; the page promises a measured read against your rule, not a claim that no relevant notice can ever be phrased out of reach.
Does Unl decide which tenders to bid for?
No. Unl brings a matching notice beside your rule, your categories, your value floor, your deadline and region, stamped with its dates, and stops. Whether a contract is worth bidding for, and whether you pursue it, is your call; Unl does not score opportunities or recommend one over another.
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