About DefenceLens

DefenceLens is a UK defence contract intelligence platform. It tracks every notice published on the UK’s official Find a Tender service, keeps the ones that matter to the defence and security sector, and follows each requirement from pipeline notice to contract award — including who won and for how much.

Where the data comes from

All notice data is sourced from the Find a Tender service — the UK’s legally mandated home for public procurement notices — under the Open Government Licence v3.0, in the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) format. We scan for new and updated releases every 30 minutes and link every notice back to its official source. We publish what the government publishes: we don’t scrape rumours, and we don’t editorialise the record.

How notices are classified as defence

Generic alert services drown suppliers in irrelevant notices. DefenceLens classifies every notice with a three-layer model: defence-specific CPV codes, a maintained whitelist of defence buyers (Ministry of Defence, DE&S, Dstl, DIO, DASA and others), and domain keywords. Each defence notice carries its classification reasons, so you can see why it was included, not just that it was. The full detail — sources, cadence, coverage and limitations — is on the data methodology page.

What DefenceLens is not

DefenceLens is a market intelligence service. It helps suppliers discover public procurement opportunities and understand the market. It does not arrange, broker or facilitate transactions in controlled goods, and it is not affiliated with the Ministry of Defence or the Cabinet Office.

Contact

Use the contact form or email us — we’re a UK-based team and we answer quickly: [email protected]. For pricing and plans, see pricing; to see the data before you spend anything, start a free trial.