UK procurement notice types UK1-UK17 explained
Since 24 February 2025 every notice on Find a Tender carries a code from UK1 to UK17. We have read 92,979 coded notices since 2025-02-24; the table shows how many of each. Source: Arcadium Data, data as of .
The old notice names (contract notice, contract award notice, VEAT) are gone for new procedures. The code tells you the stage of a procurement; the tables below group the codes the way a bidder reads them.
| Code | Notice | Stage | What it tells you | Read by us |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK1 | Pipeline notice | Planning | Contracts of GBP 2 million or more a buyer plans to award in the next 18 months. Mandatory for buyers spending GBP 100 million or more a year. API: /v1/tenders/expiring?country=GB&kind=pipeline | 9,295 |
| UK2 | Preliminary market engagement notice | Planning | Invites suppliers to market engagement, or records that it took place and what came out of it. | 11,054 |
| UK3 | Planned procurement notice | Planning | Early notice of one specific upcoming procurement. Optional, and it can shorten the tendering period. API: /v1/tenders/expiring?country=GB&kind=pipeline | 1,415 |
| UK4 | Tender notice | Competition | Opens a competitive procedure: the call for bids, with deadline and requirements. | 20,857 |
| UK5 | Transparency notice | Competition | Explains a direct award without competition, published before the contract is awarded. | 4,799 |
| UK6 | Contract award notice | Award | Names the supplier a buyer intends to award to; the standstill period starts. | 11,382 |
| UK7 | Contract details notice | Award | Details of the signed contract, within 30 days: value, supplier, contract period. The notice behind the contracts-ending view. | 31,663 |
| UK8 | Contract payment notice | Performance | Payments of more than GBP 30,000 to a supplier under a public contract, reported quarterly. | 0 |
| UK9 | Contract performance notice | Performance | Performance against key performance indicators for contracts over GBP 5 million, at least yearly and at the end. | 43 |
| UK10 | Contract change notice | Performance | A modification such as a change of value or length, published before it is made. An extension moves the contract end date. API: /v1/tenders/expiring?country=GB&kind=changed | 350 |
| UK11 | Contract termination notice | Performance | The contract has ended: completed, expired or terminated early. A buyer usually has to re-procure soon. API: /v1/tenders/expiring?country=GB&kind=terminated | 446 |
| UK12 | Procurement termination notice | Competition | A running procurement was cancelled with no award. | 1,193 |
| UK13 | Dynamic market intention notice | Dynamic market | Signals the intention to set up a dynamic market. | 84 |
| UK14 | Dynamic market establishment notice | Dynamic market | A dynamic market has been established. | 65 |
| UK15 | Dynamic market modification notice | Dynamic market | Changes to an existing dynamic market. | 328 |
| UK16 | Dynamic market cessation notice | Dynamic market | A dynamic market is closed. | 5 |
| UK17 | Payments compliance notice | Performance | Every six months a buyer confirms that suppliers were paid on time. The basis of a who-pays-late league table. | 0 |
Which notices find you a re-tender
- UK1 and UK3 list contracts a buyer will tender: the earliest signal, months before the call.
- UK7 states the contract period, so the end date and the follow-up call can be estimated.
- UK10 moves an end date (extensions and changes); UK11 ends a contract early or on time. Both matter when a contract looked safe.
- UK12 and UK6/UK7 together show whether a procedure ended in an award.
Use the codes in your own search
The tenders API filters UK contracts by notice view and sector, and every row carries its notice code. No key needed to try it.
Read the notices yourself: UK Find a Tender API guide. Contracts that end soon: re-tender data guide.
Source: Find a Tender notice data, Open Government Licence v3.0. This guide is ours and independent of the Cabinet Office.
Questions
What is a UK1 notice?
A pipeline notice: contracts of GBP 2 million or more a buyer plans to award in the next 18 months. Buyers spending GBP 100 million or more a year must publish one.
What is the difference between UK6 and UK7?
UK6 (contract award notice) names the intended winner and starts the standstill period. UK7 (contract details notice) is published after signing and states the contract value and period.
How do I find UK contracts that are about to end?
Read UK7 notices for the contract period, then watch UK10 (contract change) and UK11 (contract termination) for dates that moved. GET /v1/tenders/expiring?country=GB lists them by end date.
Cite as: Arcadium Data, "UK procurement notice types UK1-UK17 explained", https://arcadiumdata.io/guides/uk-procurement-notice-types/, data as of 2026-10-25.