tender-search

Ausschreibungsagenten (German) and Tender Agents (English) index public procurement notices from 17 connected sources across Germany, the EU and the United Kingdom. This MCP server makes that index callable by AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor: search by trade, country, CPV code, deadline or contract value, pull one notice in full, and check how fresh each source is. No API key needed to start.

• Endpoint: https://api.ausschreibungsagenten.de/mcp (Streamable HTTP)
• Same server, English brand: https://api.tender-agents.com/mcp
• Open-data surface: https://api.ausschreibungsagenten.de/mcp/open-data — official interfaces only, see below
• MCP registry: de.ausschreibungsagenten/tender-search
• Smithery: @agentifizierung/ausschreibungsagenten
• REST alternative: OpenAPI spec · Developer portal
• A2A: /.well-known/agent-card.json

Read-only. Every hit links to the authoritative original notice, which always prevails over anything shown here. This service never submits a bid and gives no procurement-law advice.

When to use this server

Use it whenever someone wants to find or assess public tenders in Germany, the EU or the UK — for example:

• "Find facade tenders in Germany closing in the next three weeks"
• "Which IT procurement notices are open in Austria right now?"
• "Summarise this tender and tell me the deadline"
• "Which procurement portals do you cover, and how current is the data?"

Not for: writing or submitting bids, calculating bid prices, or legal advice on procurement law.

Connect

Claude Code (one line):

claude mcp add --transport http ausschreibungsagenten https://api.ausschreibungsagenten.de/mcp

Any client that reads an mcpServers block (Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, …):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ausschreibungsagenten": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://api.ausschreibungsagenten.de/mcp"
    }
  }
}

No credentials are needed to start. search_tenders is open to anonymous callers at 60 requests per hour.

ChatGPT and Codex Plugin

The OpenAI Plugin submission uses the anonymous, read-only open-data endpoint:

https://api.ausschreibungsagenten.de/mcp/open-data

Listing metadata, annotation justifications and review test cases are in chatgpt-app-submission.json. The five tools listed there match the tools exposed by that endpoint.

Tools

Tool	Purpose
search_tenders	Search open notices by keyword, ISO-3 country, CPV code, relevance score, deadline window and contract value. Optional AI summary per hit.
get_tender	One notice in full, by id.
summarize_tender	Labelled AI short form of a notice, de or en. Cached summaries are served anonymously; generating a new one needs a key.
source_status	Freshness per connected procurement portal — last successful poll, counts, last error.
countries	Indexed countries (ISO-3) with the number of open procedures.
fulltext_search	Full text across indexed notices. Needs a paid key; anonymous callers get an error.

CPV filtering accepts full 8-digit codes for exact matches and shorter numeric prefixes for whole divisions — 45 matches all of construction.

Authentication

Anonymous access covers the public preview. Higher limits and fulltext_search use an API key as an HTTP Bearer token:

Authorization: Bearer sk_...

No other header is evaluated — a request sent with X-API-Key counts as unauthenticated and runs in the anonymous limit. Free keys: ausschreibungsagenten.de/entwickler.

Sources

TED, service.bund.de, Datenservice Öffentlicher Einkauf, DTVP, RIB, the state and regional portals of Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg, Vergabeportal BW, Bremen, Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar, plus GB Find a Tender and Contracts Finder. Above and below the EU threshold.

Coverage is not claimed to be complete. source_status states per portal what is actually being polled and when it last succeeded — check it before relying on completeness.

Open-data surface

https://api.ausschreibungsagenten.de/mcp/open-data exposes five anonymous, read-only tools. Search results are limited to sources whose operator provides an interface for them: TED, service.bund.de, Datenservice Öffentlicher Einkauf, GB Find a Tender and GB Contracts Finder. The interface field in source_status names the connection type per source. fulltext_search is not exposed on this surface, and summarize_tender only returns an existing cached summary; it never generates a new one anonymously. Tender lookup, summaries, country counts and source status all enforce the same five-source boundary.

That is narrower than the full endpoint but not a stub: all 27 EU countries via TED, the German federal level, German above- and below-threshold notices via Datenservice, plus the UK. Use it where the terms of an intermediary matter more than breadth.

Other ways in

• REST + OpenAPI: openapi.json · canonical surface https://api.ausschreibungsagenten.de/api/v1/...
• CLI: npx ausschreibungsagenten suche Fassade --land DEU --limit 5 (npm)
• A2A agent card: /.well-known/agent-card.json
• Agent instructions: llms.txt · agents.md
• Versioning and deprecation policy: api-policy.md
• WebMCP in-page tools on the website itself: source

When not to use this

Bid pricing, writing bid documents, submitting through a procurement portal, or legal advice on procurement law. This service is not built for any of those.

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Deutsch: Öffentliche Ausschreibungen per KI-Agent

Dieser MCP-Server macht 17 öffentliche Vergabequellen aus Deutschland, der EU und Großbritannien für KI-Agenten nutzbar: nach Gewerk, Land, CPV-Code, Frist oder Auftragswert suchen, eine Bekanntmachung vollständig abrufen und den Datenstand je Portal prüfen — ohne API-Key zum Start.

• Für Unternehmen: ausschreibungsagenten.de
• International, englisch: tender-agents.com
• Entwickler-Doku und kostenloser Key: ausschreibungsagenten.de/entwickler
• Live-Quellenstatus: api/source-status

Wichtig: Die verlinkte Originalbekanntmachung ist immer maßgeblich. Der Dienst gibt kein Angebot ab und keine vergaberechtliche Auskunft. Vollständige Abdeckung wird nicht behauptet — source_status weist je Portal aus, was tatsächlich abgefragt wird.

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Contact

• Website: ausschreibungsagenten.de · tender-agents.com
• Email: hi@ausschreibungsagenten.de
• YouTube: @ausschreibungsagenten
• X: @wuebbe
• LinkedIn: wuebbe

This repository contains documentation and discovery metadata (server.json). The server itself is operated by yawusa UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Berlin (Impressum).

License: MIT — see LICENSE. The MIT license covers the contents of this repository. Use of the service itself is subject to the terms of use.