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.

Install

Requires Python 3.10+.

From PyPI (once published):

pip install tenderapi-mcp

From source:

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

Configure

Get a free API key at https://tenderapi.fr/.

Set the env var:

export TENDERAPI_KEY=ta_your_key_here

Use with Claude Desktop

Edit your Claude Desktop config:

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

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

Restart Claude Desktop. The tenderapi server should appear in the tool picker.

Use with other MCP clients

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

Tools exposed

Tool	Tier	Description
search_tenders	Free	Search BOAMP + TED tenders with typed filters (CPV, region, budget, deadline, source…)
search_awards	Starter	Search award notices (who won which contract, for how much)
winner_intel	Pro	Aggregated winner stats — top companies by CPV / region / year
me	—	Current key tier, quota remaining, available features

Tiers

• Free: 100 req/day — tenders only
• Starter (5 €/mo HT): 5 000 req/day — adds awards + webhooks
• Pro (15 €/mo HT): 50 000 req/day — adds winner intelligence

See https://tenderapi.fr/#pricing.

Local development

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

Changelog

0.1.2 (2026-05-07)

The underlying TenderAPI changed behaviour in ways that affect MCP clients:

• Stricter query parameters. Unknown parameters (e.g. q= instead of keyword=) now return 400 Bad Request with a list of valid parameters, instead of being silently ignored. Update any tool calls that relied on the old behaviour.
• Multi-word keyword search now AND-matches tokens. keyword=espaces verts requires both words to appear (in title or description). Previously it required the literal substring "espaces verts".
• Comma-separated lists supported on region and cpv. region=paca,bretagne now works as well as repeating the parameter.
• TED awards now expose real SIRETs (winner_siret, buyer_siret) for ~50% of records. BOAMP SIRETs are being progressively enriched via the SIRENE register.
• Country codes normalised to ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 (FR, not FRA) across both BOAMP and TED awards/tenders.

0.1.1 (2026-05-04)

Initial public release on the MCP Registry.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.