Tenders
by api.alexstokes.com in Search & web
UK tenders and public procurement search for apps, automations and AI agents. Search UK government contract notices from Find a Tender by keyword, CPV, delivery region, deadline and value. Returns up to 25 structured notices with buyers, deadlines, values and official source links where available. Bounded ingestion window, not all UK contracts; check free /status. Successful empty searches are chargeable.
GET https://api.alexstokes.com/v1/tenders
Last 30 days
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- Uptime
- 100%
- Response time
- 248 ms typical, 271 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- 16 min ago
- Next check
- in 13 min
How to call it
GET https://api.alexstokes.com/v1/tenders
Each call costs $0.01 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
GET https://api.alexstokes.com/v1/tenders?limit=10&q=cleaning&status=openParameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
cpv | string | No | CPV code prefix. |
currency | string | No | Required with value filters; no currency conversion. |
deadline_from | string | No | |
deadline_to | string | No | |
limit | integer | No | Default: 10. |
max_value | number | No | |
min_value | number | No | |
offset | integer | No | Default: 0. |
q | string | No | Literal case-insensitive AND keyword terms across title, description, buyer and CPV descriptions. |
region | string | No | Published delivery region code prefix, e.g. UKG for West Midlands. Not buyer office location; national-only and missing locations may be omitted. |
snapshot | string | No | Copy meta.snapshot from page one when offset > 0; changed dataset returns 409. |
status | string | No | Derived from the latest ingested notice. Open does not establish supplier eligibility. One of: open, closed, cancelled, planned, unknown, all. Default: "open". |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"data": [],
"meta": {
"coverage": "Notices in the ingested update window only.",
"fresh": true,
"limit": 10,
"next_offset": null,
"offset": 0,
"source": "Find a Tender",
"total": 0
}
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.01.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://api.alexstokes.com/v1/tenders?limit=10&q=cleaning&status=open'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://api.alexstokes.com/v1/tenders?limit=10&q=cleaning&status=open' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.01 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.01" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.01 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.alexstokes.com%2Fv1%2Ftenders
const res = await pay("https://api.alexstokes.com/v1/tenders?limit=10&q=cleaning&status=open");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.01 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.01"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.get("https://api.alexstokes.com/v1/tenders?limit=10&q=cleaning&status=open")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 min ago | Passed | 402 | 152 ms | $0.01 |
| 4 h ago | Passed | 402 | 254 ms | $0.01 |
| 8 h ago | Passed | 402 | 268 ms | $0.01 |
| 12 h ago | Passed | 402 | 271 ms | $0.01 |
| 16 h ago | Passed | 402 | 248 ms | $0.01 |
| 20 h ago | Passed | 402 | 233 ms | $0.01 |
| 24 h ago | Passed | 402 | 2.2 s | $0.01 |
| 28 h ago | Passed | 402 | 259 ms | $0.01 |
| 32 h ago | Passed | 402 | 178 ms | $0.01 |
| 35 h ago | Passed | 402 | 250 ms | $0.01 |
| 39 h ago | Passed | 402 | 242 ms | $0.01 |
| 47 h ago | Passed | 402 | 154 ms | $0.01 |