TenderAPI MCP server

Expose TenderAPI (French BOAMP + EU TED public procurement data) as MCP tools for AI agents (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue, Zed, etc.).

A thin wrapper over the public REST API at https://tenderapi.fr.

Coverage: BOAMP (France) since March 2015, and TED for FR/DE/IT/ES/UK since 2015 (legacy XML format until end 2023, then eForms), refreshed daily.

Two ways to use it

1. Hosted server — no install, no key

The fastest way to try it. Point any MCP client at the hosted endpoint:

https://tenderapi.fr/mcp

Claude Desktop / Claude Code:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tenderapi": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://tenderapi.fr/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Exposes search_tenders and get_tender. Anonymous, free, limited to 30 tool calls per day per IP. No account, nothing to install.

Awards, winner intelligence and alert profiles are not available anonymously — they need a key, see below.

2. Local server (pip) — full toolset

Requires Python 3.10+ and a free API key.

pip install tenderapi-mcp

Get a free key at https://tenderapi.fr/ (includes one weekly email watch), then:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tenderapi": {
      "command": "tenderapi-mcp",
      "env": {
        "TENDERAPI_KEY": "ta_your_key_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop config location:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
• Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Restart the client. The tenderapi server should appear in the tool picker.

From source instead of PyPI:

git clone https://github.com/IDNSIDNS/tenderapi-mcp
cd tenderapi-mcp
pip install -e .

Any MCP client supporting stdio transport works. The tenderapi-mcp binary installed by pip is the entry point.

Tools exposed

PINs (prior-information notices) are excluded from search_tenders by default; pass include_planning=true to include them. A deadline_after/deadline_before filter drops notices with no submission deadline unless include_null_deadline=true.

Tiers

• Hosted, keyless: 30 tool calls/day per IP, tenders only
• Free key: tenders, 1 alert profile (email digest every Monday, to the account address)
• Pro (15 €/month): adds awards and winner intelligence, up to 10 alert profiles delivered every morning (email digest, Teams or webhook)

Request limits only protect the service (free: 1 000/day and 30/min; Pro: 1 500/day and 120/min); paginated lists stop at row 1 000.

Prices are final — no VAT is charged (art. 293 B French tax code). See https://tenderapi.fr/#pricing.

Local development

Override the API base URL via TENDERAPI_BASE_URL (default https://tenderapi.fr).

Requirements

Pinned to the mcp 1.x line: version 2.0.0 removed mcp.server.fastmcp, which this server is built on. Migration to the 2.x API is tracked separately.

License

MIT, see LICENSE.