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Coverage

What we cover, and what we don't.

Every tender platform claims to have everything. None of them shows you. This page lists the sources we collect from, how fresh each one is right now, and the procurement portals we do not collect from at all — because a gap you know about is worth more than a promise you can't check.

Live sources, and how fresh each one is

Measured from the newest notice we actually hold, not from whether a connector is switched on. If something has quietly stopped, it shows up here.

We flag a source once it has gone 14 days without a new notice. Some quiet spells are genuine — buyers do not publish evenly — but a long gap usually means something upstream has changed, and you should know before you rely on it.

Portals we do not collect from

Many councils run a second, separate portal for their smaller quote work alongside the statutory registers. We do not collect from those, and that is a decision rather than a gap in the roadmap. Those platforms are not ours to harvest, so instead of scraping them we tell you which authority uses which one and send you there directly.

It affects 194 authority listings across 10 platforms — and 194 of them are below-threshold publishing only, meaning the work that would be missed is mostly small quote work rather than open tenders.

PlatformStatusAuthorities
ProContract (Due North)We collect from this140
Find a Tender / Contracts Finder / PCS / Sell2WalesWe collect from this43
YORtenderWe collect from this15
In-tendBlocked to automated access90
Delta eSourcingWe deliberately do not collect from this34
Proactis P2P / Source-to-PayWe deliberately do not collect from this22
Jaggaer / BravoSolutionWe deliberately do not collect from this18
Bespoke / other council portalWe deliberately do not collect from this18
Atamis (NHS)No public list exists to collect7
EU-Supply / CTM (other portals)We deliberately do not collect from this5
Suffolk SourcingBlocked to automated access
Supply HertfordshireBlocked to automated access
East of England Collaborative Procurement HubWe deliberately do not collect from this

We collect from 3 of the 13 platforms listed, plus the statutory registers above.

What this means when you use us

Coverage overview · How we check our own scoring · Public sector buyers