The opportunity radar

A pilot. Tell this page what your organisation does, and it lists the contracts, consultations and funding rounds open now that mention it, each with the reason it matched and its closing date. Your settings stay in this browser, and nothing is sent to us or anyone else.

Your radar

Words, a value range and wards, kept on this device for next time. Contracts and consultations are Hastings first: the county council's notices for other towns appear only when you include county-wide work.

To follow everything open, with no filter: the opportunities feed (RSS) and the deadlines calendar. The list the radar matches against is opportunities.json, the same file for everyone.

How it matches

The same rule as the topic pages, and as the published radar pages below. There is no scoring and no model behind it, which means you can always see why something is on the list.

Each word or phrase matches whole words, ignoring capitals, in a notice's title or its own description, a consultation's page, or a funding round's description. The first of your words that matches is shown as the reason.
A value range leaves out only a notice that states a value outside it. A notice that states no value stays in, because unknown isn't zero.
Picking wards leaves out only a notice that names a different ward.
When a deadline passes, the notice drops off. Some weeks nothing matches, and the page says so.
We don't check whether you're eligible for anything. Read the notice for that.

Listed first: contracts the borough council is buying or holds on its own contracts register; notices that state a delivery postcode, or the buyer's or the winning firm's own address, in a Hastings ward; and notices whose title or description names Hastings, St Leonards, a postcode in TN34, TN35, TN37 or TN38, or a Hastings ward. Ashdown, Baird, Castle, Conquest, Ore and St Helens count only as “Castle ward” and so on, because those words name other things too. The TN postcode districts reach a little beyond the borough, into Pett and the edge of Bexhill. Everything else on the record is under “County-wide and elsewhere in East Sussex”, on the same page.

The notices come from Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the councils' consultation pages and the funding rounds checked by hand on each funder's page, the same sources as the rest of this site.

What stays private

Your words, range and wards are kept in this browser's local storage, under “oh-radar”, so they are here when you come back on this device. They are never sent: the page downloads the same list of open opportunities for everyone and does the matching on your device. The calendar file is made in your browser too. “Forget these settings” removes them.

Published radar pages

An organisation can also have a radar page published here, with its own feed, so its members or staff can follow it without setting anything up.

A page holds a name, one line about what the organisation does, its keywords and, if it wants, a value range and a list of wards.
No contact details and no people's names.
Everything stored is printed on the page. Nothing is held back.
You give it, you can change it, and it comes down the day you ask.
Each page has an RSS feed, so a feed reader can do the checking. We never learn who is watching what.

No organisation has a published radar page yet.

To ask for a page, or to change or remove one, write to the editor, Laurie Harrison, at editor@openhastings.com.

A worked example

A made-up firm, to show what the radar gives you.

A joinery firm lists joinery, shopfitting and carpentry, for work between £5,000 and £250,000. The council publishes a notice called "Museum display cases: joinery package". It appears on the firm's radar the same day: matched “joinery” in the notice's title, £48,000, bids close 15 September, a link to the notice. A £2m construction framework never appears, because it is outside the range the firm set.