Which services show UK tender awards by supplier?

To see UK tender awards by supplier, search the award notices on Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, which name the winning supplier, then group them by supplier name and match to Companies House. Neither site gives you a supplier-by-supplier view out of the box, so the grouping is manual unless a tool does it for you. Lockley recorded 171 public contracts awarded in the week 4 to 11 October 2026.

Where award notices are published

Contracts Finder and Find a Tender are the two government services where UK public buyers publish procurement notices, with Find a Tender covering higher-value procurement. Both publish notices that name buyers, suppliers and values. Use both, because a supplier may appear on one and not the other.

How to build a view by supplier

Search award notices for your sector or buyer type, using the date filters to bound the period. Export or copy the supplier names, then group duplicates, noting that the same company can appear under variations of its name. Look the supplier up on Companies House to confirm the legal entity, the company number and its status. Record the award date, the contract value if stated, and the end date, which Contracts Finder often lists.

This gives you a dated list of winners, each tied to a real company, and an end date to time a later call against.

What the pattern tells you

A supplier with repeated awards from the same buyer is an established incumbent. One with a first win is new to the public sector and may need help with compliance, insurance, recruitment or delivery. A supplier whose contract ends soon is a prospect for a competitor, a re-tender or a consultant. Lockley counted 19 contracts ending in the week to 11 October 2026, against 24 the week before, so the endings list is short and specific.

A worked example

Suppose you sell fleet insurance and want suppliers that have just won transport or waste-collection contracts. Search award notices for those terms over the last month, list the winners, and look each up on Companies House. Discard dormant or dissolved entities and groups where the contracting company is a shell. Of the rest, note which have only recently been incorporated, because a young company with a large public award is likely to be scaling fast and buying cover, vehicles and staff. Then read each site to see what the business does day to day. Ten companies handled this way take an hour or two and give you a list you can defend line by line.

What awards do not tell you

An award notice is not a purchase order for your product. The supplier may have subcontracted most of the work, and notices vary in how fully they are completed. Values can be ceilings, not spend. Treat the notice as a reason to research, then check the company's site for what it actually does.

What to say on the call

Name the notice, the buyer and the award date, and ask one question about how the supplier is preparing to deliver. Keep it factual. Our guide to finding companies that won public contracts gives wording and a checklist.

Lockley reads Contracts Finder and Find a Tender every night and links each finding to its source record. It does not sell contact lists.

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