Every UK procurement portal — a complete list with what they cover.

The 5 main UK central procurement portals

Every UK public-sector contract above £12k publishes to at least one of five central portals. WinAContract aggregates all five into one search:

• **Find a Tender Service (FTS)** — UK's official portal for above-threshold contracts (>£138,760 services/supplies). Launched 2021 to replace OJEU after Brexit. Operated by Cabinet Office. Mandatory for all UK contracting authorities for above-threshold notices.
• **Contracts Finder** — England below-threshold contracts (£12k-£138k range). Operated by Cabinet Office. Mandatory for England contracting authorities above £12k contract value (£30k for central government).
• **Public Contracts Scotland (PCS)** — All Scottish public-sector procurement. Operated by Scottish Government. Covers Scottish councils, NHS Scotland, Scottish Government, agencies, and arm's-length bodies.
• **Sell2Wales** — All Welsh public-sector procurement. Operated by Welsh Government. Covers Welsh councils, NHS Wales, Welsh Government, and devolved bodies.
• **eTendersNI** — All Northern Ireland public-sector procurement. Operated by NI Department of Finance. Covers NI councils, Health and Social Care Trusts, NI departments, and arm's-length bodies.

Sector-specific procurement portals

In addition to the central portals, several sectors and shared procurement organisations run their own:

• **NHS Supply Chain** — Central NHS procurement for high-volume clinical consumables and medical devices.
• NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) — NHS framework portal used by ~30% of NHS Trusts.
• Crown Commercial Service (CCS) — Central government framework portal (G-Cloud, DOS, OASIS).
• ESPO (Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation) — Council framework portal used by ~75% of UK councils.
• YPO (Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation) — Similar to ESPO, ~85% council adoption.
• LGSS (Local Government Shared Services) — Central-belt councils shared procurement.
• NEPO (North East Procurement Organisation) — Tyne, Tees, Wear councils.
• Network Rail / TfL / individual transport authorities — Many transport bodies run their own eSourcing platforms.

Which portal should I use?

Depends on what you're trying to do:

• Find every relevant UK public-sector opportunity in one place: WinAContract (aggregates all of the above).
• Submit a formal bid: the source portal that the notice was published to. Every WinAContract contract page includes a direct link back to the source.
• Research a specific framework you're already on: the framework operator's eSourcing platform (ESPO, YPO, CCS, NHS SBS etc.).
• Register as a new supplier: start with SAM-equivalent registration at the source portal of your first target buyer; you'll typically also need to register for any framework portal you plan to bid into.

How WinAContract aggregates UK procurement portals

WinAContract polls every major UK public-sector procurement portal hourly and indexes new notices within 30 minutes. Every notice keeps its source attribution + a direct deep-link back to the original portal, so we add value (faster search, buyer + supplier intelligence, alerts) without replacing the official record.

For a single supplier searching across all 5 central portals + NHS Supply Chain + NHS SBS + ESPO + YPO simultaneously, WinAContract typically replaces 30-90 minutes of daily manual portal-checking with a single 5-minute morning search.