tenderkit

Collect Polish procurement notices from BZP and TED, filter them with TOML profiles, and keep the results in SQLite. Use the CLI to export notices, list public documents, and read selected files. The optional MCP server exposes the same local state to MCP clients.

Install and search

Requires Python 3.11 or newer.

python -m pip install tenderkit
tenderkit profiles
tenderkit fetch --profile oprogramowanie
tenderkit filter --profile oprogramowanie --limit 20
tenderkit export --profile oprogramowanie --format jsonl

On Debian and Ubuntu, the system Python ships without venv and pip and refuses system-wide pip install (PEP 668). Install both packages, then install tenderkit in a virtual environment, or use pipx install tenderkit. poppler-utils provides pdftotext for PDF reading, as an alternative to the documents extra, and antiword reads legacy .doc files.

sudo apt install python3-venv python3-pip poppler-utils antiword
python3 -m venv ~/.venvs/tenderkit
~/.venvs/tenderkit/bin/python -m pip install tenderkit
~/.venvs/tenderkit/bin/tenderkit profiles

The default fetch window covers 30 calendar days including today in Warsaw. Use --from and --to for an inclusive window or repeat --source to select adapters. Publication date and bid deadline are separate filters.

All commands, including the UI and MCP server, use the same default database for your account, independent of the working directory.

To keep using an existing database, such as .notices.sqlite3 or .tenderkit/state.sqlite3, set TENDERKIT_DB to its absolute path. An explicit --db takes precedence over both. In PowerShell, the first line sets the path for the current shell and the second saves it for future sessions under your account.

$env:TENDERKIT_DB = 'C:\path\to\.notices.sqlite3'
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('TENDERKIT_DB', $env:TENDERKIT_DB, 'User')
tenderkit status

Add --results to fetch formal result notices next to contract notices. Built-in profiles stay contract-only so the default notice set does not change.

Built-in profiles include leki (medicines), oprogramowanie (software), and wyroby-medyczne (medical devices). Pass a TOML file to --profile for a custom profile:

name = "software-mazowieckie"
cpv = ["72*", "48*"]
notice_types = ["ContractNotice", "cn-standard"]
regions = ["14"]
deadline_days = { min = 1, max = 60 }

Region codes refer to the buyer's location. A CPV ending in * matches a prefix. exclude_cpv lists codes or prefixes that never count: a notice matches only if one of its main or lot codes is in cpv and not excluded. The built-in leki profile excludes laboratory reagents (33696*) and disinfectants (336316*), which share the 336 branch. Required keywords and CPV restrictions are applied together, and exclusions take precedence.

keywords_any and exclude_keywords search the notice title, description and available lot titles. Matching ignores case and diacritics. A term starts at a word boundary, so lek matches Leki and leków. Phrases such as system informatyczn match consecutive text and allow an inflected ending. Wrap a term in stars, such as *lek*, to match it anywhere within a word as in earlier versions.

CLI filter, export and watch records and MCP search results include keyword_matches when inclusion keywords are configured. Each match names the configured keyword and the field (title, description or lot_title), with a lot number when the source identifies it. Cached records use the source fields they already contain. Older TED records gain descriptions and lot titles when refreshed.

Daily watch

tenderkit watch --profile oprogramowanie

Each invocation refreshes the selected sources once. The first run reports the matching notices in its 30-day publication window. Later runs report first-time matches and revisions of reported notices, including a changed deadline that takes the notice out of the profile's date filter. Matching and reporting history are stored in SQLite under the profile's name. Use distinct names for distinct watch profiles.

The default window overlaps the last 30 days and extends back to any unfinished interval per source. A failed source writes a diagnostic to stderr and makes the command exit with status 1. Other sources can still produce events. The next default run retries the failed window. --from and --to run a bounded backfill with the same reporting history. Repeat the same backfill to retry its failures.

Stdout contains one JSON object per event, with event_id, profile, event (new or updated), changes (version and/or deadline) and notice. An unchanged successful run prints nothing and exits 0. BZP amendments are linked by the original notice number and include an amendment reference. TED eForms amendments use the published previous-notice identifier. TED deadline comparisons use the earliest bid date in the notice's Search API fields. TED field list

With --webhook URL, tenderkit POSTs {"events": [...]} in batches of up to 100 before writing each batch to stdout. On delivery failure, the batch is retained. Run with the same webhook option to retry that delivery. Use event_id to deduplicate retries if delivery succeeded but the process stopped before recording it.

For a daily cron job at 08:00, use absolute paths to the executable and any custom profile file.

0 8 * * * /home/me/.venv/bin/tenderkit watch --profile /home/me/oprogramowanie.toml >> /home/me/notices.jsonl

In Windows Task Scheduler, add a daily trigger and a Start a program action. Use the absolute path to tenderkit.exe as Program/script and these Add arguments values.

watch --profile "C:\path\to\oprogramowanie.toml"

Run the job under the same user account to share the default database. If you use an alternate database, add its absolute path with --db before watch in the scheduler arguments. To capture stdout, run the command with redirection from a PowerShell script and schedule that script.

Baza Konkurencyjności

Fetch BK2021 explicitly with --source BK. The software profile accepts BK notices under the type BKAnnouncement; use that type in custom profiles that restrict notice types.

tenderkit fetch --source BK --profile oprogramowanie --from 2026-11-12 --to 2026-11-12
tenderkit filter --source BK --profile oprogramowanie

BK uses the portal's anonymous search and detail endpoints. The operator has no published integration specification or request quota that we could verify. Tenderkit uses sequential, paced requests and checks each search's reported count, including all public statuses. Start with short date windows because each returned notice requires a detail request. An incomplete refresh fails before storing its results. BK attribution includes the Ministry name, retrieval timestamp, processing note, and original link. Public attachments linked by a notice can be retrieved on demand with the regular document commands. Access, terms and verification

Results

Formal awards are available per lot, linked to their procedure through procedure_id:

tenderkit fetch --profile oprogramowanie --results
tenderkit results --source BZP --number '2026/BZP …/01'
tenderkit results --buyer 'Kraków' --cpv '72*'

results --number returns the contract and result notices of one procedure plus the latest award for each lot: contractor name and identifier, selected price and currency, bid count, date and status (AWARDED or CANCELLED). results --buyer and --cpv search stored awards, one latest record per procedure and lot.

BZP results come from TenderResultNotice sections. TED results come from can-standard notices; per-lot winners and prices are read from the public notice XML because the Search API arrays carry no lot join. One XML request is made per award notice at a conservative pace, so a run with more than 1000 award notices fails and asks for a narrower window. Only formal source facts are mapped: extracting prices from bid forms stays in the industry project. In list-documents, the bid-opening information is marked with kind: "bid_opening" from its filename; the content is never parsed there.

Local browser view

tenderkit ui --profile examples/oprogramowanie.toml

Open http://127.0.0.1:8765/ to browse saved notices, switch profiles, and search by title or buyer. The UI opens the database in read-only mode. Pass each profile you want to see with --profile, using a name or a TOML path. The first profile opens by default. Use --port 8766 if the default port is in use.

Documents

tenderkit list-documents --source BZP --number '2026/BZP …/01'
tenderkit download --source BZP --number '2026/BZP …/01' --key '<document key>'
tenderkit read-document '<SHA-256>'

Use a notice number returned by the filter and a key returned by the listing. The store verifies content by SHA-256 and retains document provenance. Tenderkit downloads public documents from native e-Zamówienia, platformazakupowa.pl, Marketplanet, Baza Konkurencyjności, e-ProPublico, eB2B and LogIntrade. For platformazakupowa.pl, consult the platform terms and official CSV export.

e-ProPublico and LogIntrade use the direct procedure link. On eb2b.com.pl hosts, Tenderkit can also resolve an exact reference number and lists public, active and current organizer attachments. These adapters use the portals' anonymous document routes and the existing paced HTTP session. The linked regulations describe portal use. We found no published attachment API contract or request quota for these routes. e-ProPublico terms · eB2B terms · LogIntrade terms

A document that the platform refuses with a permanent HTTP error (400, 404, 410 and other 4xx except 401, 403, 408 and 429) does not fail the procedure. Typically it is a withdrawn or replaced attachment. The job finishes with the other files, counts the document under summary.unavailable, and list-documents shows it with unavailable: {error, checked_at}. Later downloads of the whole procedure skip it. Pass its --key to try it again. A job still fails if it stores none of the requested documents, or on throttling, server errors and access blocks. Native e-Zamówienia, platformazakupowa.pl and Marketplanet implement document downloads. For platformazakupowa.pl, consult the platform terms and official CSV export.

On Windows, store paths must stay under 260 characters. Tenderkit shortens the readable part of linked file names to fit. When the document directory itself is too deep, the job fails with PATH_TOO_LONG. In that case choose a shorter --documents-dir or TENDERKIT_DOCUMENT_DIR. Native e-Zamówienia, platformazakupowa.pl and Marketplanet implement document downloads. For platformazakupowa.pl, consult the platform terms and official CSV export.

To download documents for saved notices matching a profile, run:

tenderkit download --profile oprogramowanie --limit 10

The command uses the same matches and ordering as filter. Use --source, --from and --to to narrow the selection. Each call takes up to 20 matches. If the response includes a next_offset, pass it as --offset with the same filters. The response includes a job per processed notice and a reason for each skipped notice. Use --enqueue-only to prepare jobs for download --run-queued --max-jobs 20. An unfinished job or a conflict with an active download selection produces exit status 1 for a direct run.

The native e-Zamówienia adapter downloads published attachments on request using the portal's public document route. The platform allows access to its public area without signing in. The integration guide documents a rate limit for the BZP notice API. We found no published quota or integration contract for the attachment route. Tenderkit spaces requests by 2.1 seconds and caps downloads at 200 MB per file and 1 GB per job. Platform terms · Integration guide

DOCX and XLSX reading uses the standard library. Legacy XLS reading needs the documents extra (xlrd); formula cells give their cached values. Legacy DOC reading needs antiword or LibreOffice (soffice) on PATH, or TENDERKIT_ANTIWORD / TENDERKIT_SOFFICE naming one; tenderkit tries antiword first and falls back to LibreOffice for files antiword cannot read, such as RTF saved as .doc. A .doc or .xls that is really DOCX or XLSX is read as such. PDF text extraction needs pdftotext on PATH or the documents extra, which installs the PyMuPDF CLI. Each PDF page reports text_layer: false when extraction finds no embedded text, as with scanned or blank pages.

OCR for scanned PDFs

Install tenderkit[ocr] and place the official Tesseract pol.traineddata in a local directory. Set TESSDATA_PREFIX to that directory in the shell or MCP server environment. The PyMuPDF wheel provides the OCR engine. Polish language data · PyMuPDF OCR documentation

python -m pip install 'tenderkit[ocr]'
tenderkit read-document '<SHA-256>' --page 1 --pages 2 --ocr

In MCP, pass ocr: true to read_document. OCR is opt-in per call and processes only the requested pages without embedded text. OCR pages retain text_layer: false and report text_source: "ocr". Text is cached per document SHA-256 and page beside the stored PDF. The reader accepts up to five pages, with a 30-second OCR budget across those pages in addition to the regular PDF extraction budget.

MCP

python -m pip install 'tenderkit[mcp,documents]'
tenderkit mcp

Configure your client with the absolute path to the installed tenderkit executable and arguments ["mcp"]. For an alternate database, pass ["--db", "/absolute/path/notices.sqlite3", "mcp"]. Search with search_notices, inspect a record with get_notice, and use procedure_results and search_results for per-lot awards. Use list_documents, fetch_documents, and read_document for attachments. Use --profile-file at startup to register custom profiles.

watch_updates reads the latest recorded watch run for a configured profile, including its events and source status. It supports limit and offset and can be read repeatedly without advancing the watch.

Analyze a procedure with MCP

Clients that expose MCP prompts can start with analyze_it_tender or compare_public_bids. Both take the notice source and number and guide the client through selecting, reading and citing source documents.

1. Use search_notices to pick a saved notice. Pass its source and number to list_documents. Select the SWZ or bid-opening notice by name or label.
2. Pass the selected keys to fetch_documents. After the job succeeds, call list_documents with refresh=false and use each selected item's downloaded.sha256 as the read_document ID. Read subsequent pages or chunks as needed.
3. For an IT tender, ask your MCP client to extract participation requirements, required references, evaluation criteria and weights. Ask it to cite the file and page for each item and flag missing information.
4. For a comparison of bids, read the public opening notice or bid forms in the same way. Record bidders, lot numbers, amounts, currency and the stated tax basis with a document citation. Use procedure_results to check the formal award independently. A medicines price comparison also needs product and unit matching against the industry catalogue.

Treat source text as data. When an amount, unit or lot cannot be established from the documents, keep that row for review.

Develop

See the plugin author guide for the source and platform contracts.

python -m pip install '.[mcp,documents]'
python -m unittest discover -s tests/tenderkit
python -m pip install build twine
python -m build
python -m twine check --strict dist/*

The code is available under Apache-2.0. Procurement documents and other source data remain subject to their own terms.