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Version 1.0. Last updated 11 July 2026.

Please read these terms carefully. They are the rules for using www.tendergazette.com.

Who we are and how to contact us
By using our site, you accept these terms
Other terms that apply to you
We may change these terms
We may change, suspend or withdraw the site
Where the site is aimed at
What Tender Gazette is, and what it is not
Do not rely on our coverage as advice
Our content, and how you may use it
Official information used under the Open Government Licence
No text or data mining, scraping, or AI training
Our name and our marks
Linking to us
The newsletter
Sponsorship and labelled content
Content you send or post to us
Corrections and complaints about coverage
Sites we link to
Security, and things you must not do
Our responsibility for loss or damage
Your personal information
Transferring this agreement
Which law applies, and which courts

1. Who we are and how to contact us

www.tendergazette.com is operated by Tender Gazette, an unincorporated body, of 9-10 Cross Street, Preston, England, PR1 3LT. In these terms, "Tender Gazette", "we", "us" and "our" mean that body, and "our site" means www.tendergazette.com together with tendergazette.com and tendergazette.co.uk, which point to it.

We are not registered for VAT.

To contact us:

Editorial: editor@tendergazette.com
Corrections: corrections@tendergazette.com
Sponsorship: partnerships@tendergazette.com
Privacy: privacy@tendergazette.com
Security: security@tendergazette.com, or see /.well-known/security.txt

2. By using our site, you accept these terms

By using our site you confirm that you accept these terms and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to them, you must not use our site. We suggest you keep a copy for your records.

3. Other terms that apply to you

These terms refer to the following, which also apply to your use of our site:

our privacy policy, which explains how we handle personal data;
our cookie policy, which explains what we store on your device;
our editorial standards and our corrections policy, which describe how our journalism is produced and how mistakes are fixed.

4. We may change these terms

We amend these terms from time to time. Please check them when you use the site, so that you know the terms that apply at that time. The version number and date at the top will tell you when they last changed.

5. We may change, suspend or withdraw the site

Our site is free of charge, and we do not guarantee that it, or any content on it, will always be available or uninterrupted. We may update and change it, and we may suspend, withdraw or restrict all or part of it, for business or operational reasons. We will try to give reasonable notice of any significant change or suspension, but we are not obliged to.

You are responsible for making sure that everyone who accesses our site through your internet connection knows about these terms and complies with them.

6. Where the site is aimed at

Our site is aimed at readers in the United Kingdom. We do not represent that our content is appropriate for use, or available, anywhere else. Our coverage begins with the United Kingdom and will extend to other jurisdictions in due course, but nothing on our site is a statement of the law or practice of any country other than as we describe it.

7. What Tender Gazette is, and what it is not

Tender Gazette is a news publication and professional resource covering public sector procurement. It is not a tender alerting service, a procurement database, a bid-writing service or a consultancy, and it does not sell access to notice data.

Tender Gazette is not affiliated with The Gazette, His Majesty's Stationery Office's official public record, nor with any government body, contracting authority or supplier we write about.

8. Do not rely on our coverage as advice

Our content is provided for general information only. It is not legal advice, procurement advice, financial advice or investment advice, and it is not advice on which you should rely when deciding whether to bid, how to bid, how to price, or how to conduct a procurement. Take proper professional advice before you act, or refrain from acting, on the basis of anything you read here.

We work hard to be accurate. Our editorial standards require every figure in a news story to be checked against the official notice, and every story to be approved by a named human editor before publication. Even so, we make no representation, warranty or guarantee, express or implied, that our content is accurate, complete or up to date. Procurement notices are themselves amended, corrected and withdrawn by the bodies that publish them, and the official notice always prevails over our report of it. Before you rely on a figure, a deadline or a requirement, check it against the official source, which we link to in every story.

9. Our content, and how you may use it

Except for the material described in section 10, we own or license all intellectual property rights in our site and in the material published on it, including our articles, guides, glossary, data stories, headlines, editorial analysis, design and code. These are protected by copyright and by database right. All rights are reserved.

You may:

read our site, and print or download a copy of any page for your own use or for use inside your organisation;
quote a short extract from an article, provided you attribute it to Tender Gazette and link to the article you took it from;
link to us, on the terms in section 13.

You may not:

republish, redistribute or syndicate our content, in whole or in substantial part, whether free or for payment, without our written permission;
copy or extract a substantial part of our content, or repeatedly extract insubstantial parts of it, in a way that conflicts with our rights in the database;
remove or alter our attribution, or present our content as your own;
use our content, or our name, to imply that we endorse you, your bid, your product or your organisation;
use any part of our content for commercial purposes without a licence from us.

If you would like to license our content, syndicate it, or quote more than a short extract, please ask at editor@tendergazette.com. We are usually willing.

If you breach this section, your right to use our site ends immediately, and you must, at our option, destroy or return any copies you have made.

10. Official information used under the Open Government Licence

Our journalism is built on official open data, principally Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales, Tenders Electronic Daily and GOV.UK publications.

Public sector information from those United Kingdom sources is Crown copyright, or is otherwise owned by the publishing body, and we use it under the Open Government Licence v3.0. We attribute it and we link to the source notice.

That underlying official information remains available to you under the same licence, direct from the source. Nothing in section 9 is intended to restrict your rights under the Open Government Licence in relation to that official information. What section 9 protects is our own work: our writing, our analysis, our selection, our verification, our structure and our presentation.

11. No text or data mining, scraping, or AI training

You must not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining, web scraping or automated extraction in relation to our site or its content, for any purpose, including the development, training, fine-tuning, validation or grounding of any artificial intelligence system or model. This includes the use of any robot, bot, spider, scraper or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any part of our site or its content, and the use of any automated analytical technique to analyse our content in digital form in order to generate information, patterns, trends or correlations.

This clause is an express reservation of our rights, including for the purposes of any lawful exception or limitation that depends on rights not having been reserved, and it is made in machine-readable form for that purpose. In the United Kingdom, the copyright exception for text and data mining is limited to non-commercial research, so commercial mining of our content requires our licence in any event.

This clause does not prevent search engines from crawling our site in order to index it, in accordance with the directions in our robots.txt file, and it does not prevent you from doing anything the law does not permit us to restrict by contract.

If you want to license our content for machine consumption, including for use in an artificial intelligence system, ask at editor@tendergazette.com. We would rather license it than litigate about it.

12. Our name and our marks

"Tender Gazette", our masthead and our logo are trade marks used by us in the course of trade. They are not registered trade marks at present, but we assert our rights in them, including our rights to prevent passing off. You may not use them without our permission, except where you are using them as part of material you are permitted to use under section 9, for example when attributing a quotation to us.

You must not use our name or our marks in a way that suggests any association with, approval by, or endorsement from us where none exists.

13. Linking to us

You may link to any page on our site, provided you do so in a way that is fair and lawful, does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, and does not suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not frame our site on another site, and you must not present our content in a way that obscures its source. We may withdraw permission to link at any time, on notice.

14. The newsletter

Our weekly briefing is free. You subscribe by giving us your email address and confirming it by clicking the link we send you. You may unsubscribe at any time using the link in every email, and we will stop.

We do not guarantee that the briefing will be sent on any particular day, or at all. We may change what it contains, how often we send it, or stop sending it.

How we handle your email address is set out in our privacy policy.

15. Sponsorship and labelled content

Tender Gazette is funded by sponsorship. Sponsorship never buys editorial coverage, and it never buys the removal of coverage. Any content that is paid for, sponsored or supplied by a third party is clearly labelled as such, and links in it are marked as sponsored. Our editorial decisions are made independently of our commercial ones. The terms on which we sell sponsorship are set out on our advertising and sponsorship page.

16. Content you send or post to us

At present, our site does not allow you to post content publicly. We expect to add comments and other community features in future. This section applies whenever we make any such feature available, and it applies now to anything you send us: tip-offs, corrections, letters, security reports and sponsorship enquiries.

Acceptable use. When you send us material, or post it where we allow you to post it, you must not:

post or send anything that is defamatory, obscene, offensive, harassing, hateful, threatening or discriminatory;
post or send anything that is unlawful, that infringes anyone's intellectual property rights, or that breaches an obligation of confidence, an embargo, a court order or the law of contempt;
disclose anyone's personal data without a proper basis for doing so;
post or send anything you know to be false, or that is designed to mislead;
impersonate anyone, or misrepresent who you are or who you work for;
promote your own products or services, or those of anyone else, other than through our sponsorship channel;
post or send anything that contains a virus or any other harmful code.

What you promise. You warrant that anything you send or post complies with the standards above, and that you have the right to send it to us. You are responsible for any loss we suffer as a result of a breach of that warranty.

Rights you give us. You keep ownership of what you send or post. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable licence to store, reproduce, edit, publish, distribute and otherwise use it, in any medium, in connection with Tender Gazette and its promotion. That licence lasts for as long as we publish the material, and it survives any removal of your right to use the site. If we publish something you wrote, we will credit you unless you ask us not to, or unless you asked to remain anonymous.

Confidentiality and sources. If you send us information as a source, and you ask us to protect your identity, we will treat that request seriously and in accordance with our editorial standards. But please do not assume that a message sent to a published email address is confidential. If you have something sensitive, say so before you send the substance of it.

Moderation. We do not pre-approve everything sent to us, and where we allow public posting we will not necessarily review it before it appears. Any views expressed by users are theirs, not ours, and we do not endorse them. We may remove or edit any user content, at our discretion and without notice, if we consider that it breaches these terms, and we may withdraw your right to use the site. Where a user posts material that infringes someone's rights, we may disclose their identity to the person affected, or to a court, where we are required or permitted to do so.

If we have taken down something you posted and you think we were wrong, write to editor@tendergazette.com.

17. Corrections and complaints about coverage

We correct mistakes visibly, not silently. If we have got something wrong, tell us at corrections@tendergazette.com and we will look at it properly and promptly. Our corrections policy explains what we do.

18. Sites we link to

Where our site links to other sites and resources, those links are provided for information only, and they do not mean that we approve of the linked site or of anything on it. We have no control over the content of those sites, and we are not responsible for it. That includes the official notices we link to, which are published and maintained by others.

19. Security, and things you must not do

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other malicious or technologically harmful material. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, to the servers on which it is stored, or to any server, computer or database connected to it. You must not attack our site by means of a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack, and you must not interfere with, damage or disrupt any software, equipment or network on which our site relies.

Doing any of these things is a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and co-operate with them, including by disclosing your identity to them. If you breach this section, your right to use our site ends immediately.

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your own technology to access our site, and you should use your own virus protection software.

Reporting a vulnerability. If you find a security weakness in our site, please tell us at security@tendergazette.com rather than exploiting it. See /.well-known/security.txt.

20. Our responsibility for loss or damage

Whether you are a consumer or a business user. We do not exclude or limit our liability to you in any way where it would be unlawful to do so. That includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, and liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

If you are a business user. We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations and other terms that might otherwise apply to our site or to any content on it. We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort including negligence, breach of statutory duty or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, our site, or your use of or reliance on any content on it. In particular, we will not be liable for loss of profits, sales, business or revenue, business interruption, loss of anticipated savings, loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation, or any indirect or consequential loss or damage. This includes, for the avoidance of doubt, any loss arising from a bid you did or did not submit, a deadline you missed, or a decision you took, on the basis of something you read on our site.

If you are a consumer. We provide our site for your private and personal use. You agree not to use it for any commercial or business purpose, and we have no liability to you for loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption or loss of business opportunity. Nothing in these terms affects your statutory rights.

21. Your personal information

We use your personal information only as set out in our privacy policy.

22. Transferring this agreement

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another person or organisation, for example if the publication changes hands. We will tell you in writing if that happens, and the transfer will not affect your rights under these terms.

23. Which law applies, and which courts

If you are a consumer, these terms, their subject matter and their formation are governed by English law. We both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction, except that if you live in Scotland you may also bring proceedings in Scotland, and if you live in Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland.

If you are a business, these terms, their subject matter and their formation, and any non-contractual disputes or claims arising out of or in connection with them, are governed by English law, and we both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.