UK Tender Alerts

Public contracts, filtered by the words your business actually uses.

com.ibrahimtxy.uktender · Business

Contracts Finder publishes every UK public sector opportunity in one place and gives you no way to search it by keyword — the parameter exists, and the server ignores it. So suppliers either pay a monitoring service or scroll the list by hand.

This app never signs in, never submits a bid or an expression of interest and never downloads tender documents. It reads the public notice list, tells you when one matches your words, and links you to the official notice. Contract values are shown exactly as published; many notices carry none.

What it does

Type the phrase your business bids on and get told when a notice mentions it
Choose open opportunities or awarded contracts
Set a floor so £800 jobs stop reaching you; notices published without a value are never dropped by it
Every alert carries the buyer, the contract value, the closing date and a direct link to the notice
Because the feed has no keyword search, filtering happens on your phone — your keywords are never sent anywhere

How you set it up

You create one watch — for example “cabling, £10,000 and up” — and close the app. At the interval you choose it checks newly published UK public contract notices; when a notice matching your words is published your phone gets a notification. It never tells you about the same thing twice.

Who it is for

Small suppliers, contractors and bid writers who sell to UK public bodies.

What it does not do

It does NOT submit a bid or an expression of interest, and does not download tender documents. It points you at the notice; you respond there yourself. • It does NOT sign in, does not create an account and never asks for company or personal details.
It asks for no account. No sign-up, no password.
It collects no personal data: no analytics, no crash reporting.
The free tier shows Google AdMob ads: a bottom banner, interstitial, rewarded, rewarded interstitial, app-open and a “Ad”-labelled card inside the list. Paid members see no ads and no ad request is made.

Permissions

Permission	Why
`ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`	To avoid pointless attempts while offline, and to tell mobile data from Wi-Fi.
`INTERNET`	To reach the public Contracts Finder notice list.
`POST_NOTIFICATIONS`	To tell you a matching notice was published. That is the whole app.
`READ_BASIC_PHONE_STATE`	So the ads library can tell Wi-Fi from mobile data. It grants no access to your phone number, IMEI or call log; the app does not declare it, the ads library adds it.
`RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED`	So your watches resume after the phone restarts.
`VIBRATE`	To vibrate when a notification arrives.
`WAKE_LOCK`	So the phone does not fall asleep in the middle of a check. The app does not ask for this itself; the background work library (Android Jetpack WorkManager) adds it.
`BILLING`	So you can buy a paid membership through Google Play. The app does not declare this permission itself; the Google Play Billing library adds it. Your payment details (card, address, invoice) never reach the app and are never seen or stored by it — Google Play takes the payment. All the app learns is whether your membership is active.
`AD_ID`	Ads in the free tier are served by Google AdMob, which may read the device advertising ID (AAID). The app does not declare this permission itself; the ads library adds it. Paid members make no ad request at all. You can reset or delete the ID in Settings › Google › Ads.

Source

Where the data comes from: the open procurement feed at contractsfinder.service.gov.uk, published under the Open Government Licence.

UK Tender Alerts is an independent app. It is not developed, endorsed or supported by the Cabinet Office, Crown Commercial Service or any buying authority.