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Dates Help

By choosing your date parameters you will receive all contracts published within that timescale. You can narrow or widen your search according to your requirements, viewing contracts published within the last three months.

Contract Type Help

Tailor your search to receive information on contracts that are available for tender, contracts that have recently been awarded, or both.

Keywords Help

Search for contracts that match the keywords and phrases that you feel best reflect your organisation’s products or services. This option is not case-sensitive and allows you to leave your keywords open-ended, eg if you enter the word "construc" this will find contracts containing "construction", "constructor", "constructors" etc. You can choose as many keywords as you wish and also whether the contract award/notice contains any of the keywords or all of the keywords.

Exact Keywords Help

Search for contracts that exactly match the keywords and phrases that you feel best reflect your organisation’s products or services. You can choose as many keywords or phrases as you wish and also whether the contract award/notice contains any of these or all of these.

Omit Keywords Help

As well as choosing the type of keywords/phrases and CPV Codes you do wish to receive, you may also elect to omit keywords/phrases.

For example, you may work in the construction industry and have the keyword 'construction' contained within your profile, however you may not deal with the construction of roads. Therefore by including 'roads' in the Omit Keywords section you will only receive contracts related to construction excluding any containing the Omitted Keyword 'roads'. By ticking the 'Search as substring' option, this will allow you to leave your keywords open-ended (eg if you enter the word 'comput', this will omit contracts containing compute, computer, computers, computing etc) Otherwise, only an exact match of the keyword will be omitted.

Keyword Search Options Help

By highlighting 'description only' the search will look for keywords that are contained within the description field of the contract only and not throughout the whole contract. This is useful if one of your keywords happens to be a commonly used word such as road which could obviously appear in the address details of a significant number of contracts.

NUTS Code Help

If you have a certain area that you are interested in and you know the location code that corresponds to that area you can enter the code in the field provided. You can choose a number of codes and select all of these or any of these.

If you are unsure of the code simply click on "search codes" where you will then be taken to a separate search form.

Nature of Contract Help

To narrow down your contract search further you can highlight whether you are interested in either works, service or supply contracts or all three.

Industry Sector Help

These industry sectors provide a broad range of categories that can act as a guide to aid you with your contract search. However you may find that by using the keywords or CPV codes search options you are able to be more specific in identifying specific industry sectors that fall within these categories.

CPV Codes Help

If you are unsure of the CPV code you require simply click on "search codes" where you will then be taken to a separate search form.

Awarding Authority Help

If you know the awarding authority of a contract you are looking for you can narrow your search by entering the details here.

Title Help

If you know the title of a contract you are looking for you can narrow your search by entering the details here.

OJEU Reference Help

If you know the OJEU reference of a contract you are looking for you can narrow your search by entering the details here.

Results List Preferences Help

By changing your Results List Preferences options you can amend the format from within which you view the contracts that are returned from your search.

Preferences will be saved on form submission if you click "Submit" or "Save" and will also apply to the Quick Search Form.