EU tenders API for AI agents: TED notices and contract awards over MCP

Your agent should watch for public tenders in your field, check which contracts a competitor has won, or see what a public buyer has awarded. TED publishes all of it, but its search is built for a browser, the API needs its own account and query language, and the scrapers sold for it are another subscription. You want one call per question, paid per call.

Every procurement task returns the same row: notice_id, title, publication_date, notice_type, cpv, buyer_country, published_total_value, result_value, result_currency, tender_deadline, value_basis, match_basis and source. value_basis says where the value comes from (the published estimate or the awarded result), match_basis says why the row matched your words or your supplier name, and source carries the official TED record, its licence and the publication date. procurement.notice.get returns the same row for one publication number, with the link to the original notice.

The notices are read from TED, the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, queried per call by Ahel registry service: no scraper, no proxy, and no TED account on your side. TED carries the notices that EU rules require to be published Europe-wide, which are the larger contracts above the EU thresholds. National tenders below those thresholds appear only in each country's own portal, so a search here is not all public spending in a country, and the result says so.

procurement.supplier.awards matches the supplier name as it appears in the notice, and buyers spell names in many ways. Treat its rows as candidates: check the legal name and registry code with companies.register.search first, and read the original notice through procurement.notice.get before you report a win. Ahel serves no directors, owners or people from procurement records.

When we checked on 2 Nov 2026, procurement.tenders.search and procurement.awards.search cost $0.004 per successful call, procurement.notice.get $0.002 per successful call, and procurement.supplier.awards and procurement.buyer.awards $0.01 per successful call. A search that finds nothing, and a country TED does not cover, are free. These are Ahel tariffs with no percentage margin, and every run is quoted and reserved before it starts.

companies.check combines a company's official registry identity, status, financial headlines, its published procurement awards and possible sanctions matches into one sourced report that states its gaps, at $0.25 per successful call. For the registers themselves, see the guide to official European business registers.