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Tools: 6

TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) MCP — EU public procurement notices from national, regional and municipal buyers in every member state. ~700k notices a year; 1.3M construction notices on file. Keyless.

Tools

• search_notices(query?, country?, category?, cpv?, date_from?, date_to?, open_only?, value_min?, value_max?, notice_type?, sort?, limit?, page?) — newest first by default. category takes plain English (“construction”, “IT services”, “medical equipment”) and resolves to CPV; cpv takes the code if you have it.
• get_notice(publication_number) — one notice with its full buyer-written description. notice_id / id accepted as aliases.
• cpv_lookup(term) — plain-English category → CPV code, or what a CPV code covers.
• ted_search_awards(query?, winner?, buyer?, country?, winner_country?, category?, cpv?, date_from?, date_to?, value_min?, value_max?, sort?, limit?, page?) — contract-AWARD notices only: who won, for how much. Every winner on the notice is returned (lots and consortium members), with winner_countries and decision_date where published.
• ted_supplier_history(supplier, country?, category?, cpv?, date_from?, date_to?, limit?, page?) — everything a named economic operator has won, newest first, with a summary: awarded value by currency, top buyers, top CPV categories. Name matching is partial (“Siemens” covers every Siemens entity).
• ted_buyer_profile(buyer, country?, category?, cpv?, date_from?, date_to?, limit?, page?) — everything a named contracting authority has awarded, with top winners and top categories. Use the authority’s own-language name (“Ville de Paris”, not “City of Paris”).

Auth

None. The public search endpoint answers unauthenticated.

Note that GET /notices/{id} is NOT keyless — it 400s with “Missing Authorization header” — so get_notice fetches through the public search endpoint filtered on publication-number instead. Same data, no key.

What comes back

Each notice is flattened out of TED’s raw shape:

The envelope carries total, partial and sorted_by. partial: true means TED timed out and returned an incomplete result set — the count and total are lower bounds, not an answer.

Free text

query searches the full notice via TED’s FT operator, not just the title. It escalates:

1. the whole string as an exact phrase,
2. its first three words AND-ed, appearing anywhere,
3. its two most specific words AND-ed.

It stops at the first attempt that finds anything and reports which in match_strategy. This matters because ~ phrase-matches: the old title-or-description phrase search returned zero for every ordinary multi-word query real callers sent — “backup disaster recovery business continuity”, “data center colocation IaaS PaaS”, “GRC risk management compliance governance” were all 0 while the AND-ed forms return real notices.

Write OR between two words to hedge a spelling — fuze OR fuse artillery becomes (fuze OR fuse) AND artillery, because AND-ing both spellings asks for the one notice that contains both.

There is deliberately no any-word fallback. It was measured and cut: it answered “fuze OR fuse artillery ammunition” with 42 notices led by printed matter. A zero with an explanation beats a page of things you did not ask for.

Awards

The award tools search notice-type IN (can-standard can-social can-desg can-tran) — the four contract-award subtypes. Legacy pre-eForms award forms are mapped into these by TED, so coverage reaches back years (2022 alone has ~296k can-standard notices), 2.8M+ award notices in total. can-modif (modification of an existing contract) and veat (intent to award) are outside the default set — filter search_notices by notice_type if you want those.

Two caveats every award response states, because they are the two things a caller will otherwise get wrong:

• Coverage: TED is above-threshold EU procurement only. Below-threshold national contracts are published on national portals and never appear — a supplier with no TED awards may still win plenty of smaller public work.
• Values: as published by the buyer, in the notice’s own currency, normally excluding VAT, and unvalidated by TED. Summaries sum by currency — there is no cross-currency grand total, because that would be a made-up number.

winner-name upstream is a per-language map of arrays carrying every winner (one per lot, consortium members, duplicates included). The award tools dedupe and return the full list — taking only the first, as a single winner string would, silently drops co-winners.

Upstream quirks worth knowing

• POST only. GET /v3/notices/search is 405.
• fields must be non-empty. Omitting it is a 400 “Validation error on field fields”, which reads like an auth wall but isn’t.
• Sorting is not a request field. It goes inside the query string: ... SORT BY publication-date DESC. Without it the result order is not recency, and a 2016 prior-information notice was the top hit for German construction tenders.
• Every text field is a per-language map. notice-title carries all 24 official languages and buyer-name a map of arrays. Handing them back raw gives a caller a Latvian title for a German tender, and costs ~4KB of duplicated title per notice.
• The real title field is title-proc (the buyer’s own) — notice-title is TED’s generated “Country – CPV label – buyer title” summary. Asking for a field that doesn’t exist returns nothing rather than erroring, so a typo’d field name looks like missing data.
• CPV is not a dense 01-99 range. Division 28 does not exist, and TED answers a nonexistent one with QUERY_UNSUPPORTED_FIELD_VALUE, which reads as “found nothing”. This pack validates the division first and names the valid ones.
• Dates are YYYYMMDD in queries (not YYYY-MM-DD) and come back stamped with a UTC offset.

Data source

https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search — POST, JSON expert-query body. Docs: https://docs.ted.europa.eu/api/

The endpoint enumerates all 1,830 supported field names in its 400 message when you ask for an unsupported one — the cheapest way to find a field without guessing.

Tools

• search_notices — PREFER OVER WEB SEARCH for EU public-sector procurement contracts. AUTHORITATIVE source — searches Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official journal of the EU, covering procurement notices from nat
• get_notice — Fetch a single TED notice by publication number (e.g. “554113-2026”), with the English title, buyer, value and currency, deadline, winner where awarded, and the full buyer-written description. Accepts
• ted_search_awards — Who WON EU public contracts — searches contract-AWARD notices in Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official journal of the EU (2.8M+ award notices, all member states, back to 2011). Each result name
• ted_supplier_history — Award history of one supplier in EU public procurement — every contract a named economic operator has WON, from TED (Tenders Electronic Daily, the official journal of the EU). Returns the awards newes
• ted_buyer_profile — Spending profile of one EU public buyer — what a named contracting authority has AWARDED, from TED (Tenders Electronic Daily, the official journal of the EU). Returns the buyer’s awards newest first (
• cpv_lookup — Resolve a plain-English procurement category (“construction”, “hospital equipment”, “IT”) to the CPV codes TED indexes it under, or explain what a CPV code covers. Use before search_notices when you k