Procurement Policy Note 08/20 - Introduction of Find a Tender · first published 23 November 2020
PPN 08/20 was published in November 2020 to remind contracting authorities (public-sector buyers) about the UK government's new 'Find a Tender' service. This service replaced the EU's TED portal for advertising UK public contracts above certain thresholds once the Brexit transition period ended. For small businesses, this means the place to find and respond to above-threshold public contract notices changed from the EU portal to the UK's own system. Beyond flagging this new notice platform, the full document has not been parsed, so further detail on any specific rules or obligations cannot be confirmed from the available text.
WHO THIS APPLIES TO
THE ENKII VIEW
The shift to Find a Tender is a practical, operational change rather than a policy overhaul — but SMEs who were using the EU's TED portal to discover contract opportunities needed to update their search habits promptly. Missing the switch could mean missing contract notices entirely. No new evaluation criteria or scoring changes are indicated by the available summary.
1. Switch your contract-opportunity searches from the EU's TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) portal to the UK government's 'Find a Tender' service at find-tender.service.gov.uk to ensure you don't miss above-threshold notices.
All SMEs bidding for UK public contracts — PPN 08/20 confirms that Find a Tender is the designated UK service for procurement notices, replacing TED after the Brexit transition period.
Every rule below quotes the official document verbatim.
PPN 08/20 reminds contracting authorities of the 'Find a Tender' service as the UK's procurement notice platform. (Contracting authorities publishing above-threshold procurement notices in the UK.)
“This Procurement Policy Note (PPN) reminds contracting authorities of the 'Find a Tender' service.”
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