The tender API
for AI agents

TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) is the online version of the Supplement to the Official Journal of the EU. It publishes public procurement notices above the EU thresholds from all member states. Our index polls the official TED API continuously, so above-threshold notices from every EU country are searchable here. Below-threshold notices live on national portals, which we add source by source and mark honestly as live or planned.

EU-wide procedures are governed primarily by Directive 2014/24/EU. For 2026/2027 the thresholds are, among others, €140,000 for supplies and services of central government authorities, €216,000 for sub-central contracting authorities and €5,404,000 for works contracts. The current official values published by the European Commission and the specific procurement documents always prevail.

Three ways, live today: the public JSON API (no key needed for limited previews), a free self-serve API key from /developers for higher limits, and a hosted MCP endpoint at POST /mcp that remote-capable MCP clients can call directly. /llms.txt and /.well-known/agent-card.json describe the platform for LLM tools. Stdio-only MCP clients use the published npm package tender-agents (npx -y tender-agents). A2A clients call the JSON-RPC endpoint at api.tender-agents.com/api/a2a directly.

Notices are classified by CPV codes and rules. A separate company-fit score (0–100) compares your profile, keywords, exclusion terms, place of performance, contract value and deadline, and shows its individual reasons. We deliberately do not claim semantic AI matching as a production feature; it can be added later.

Live: TED (EU-wide) plus 16 further sources — 14 German (service.bund.de, the eForms-DE Datenservice Öffentlicher Einkauf, eight state and regional portals, DTVP and RIB nationwide) and 2 British (Find a Tender above-threshold, Contracts Finder below-threshold, both via OCDS). Planned and prioritised by customer demand: EU national portals such as BOAMP (France), PLACSP (Spain) or TenderNed (Netherlands), and beyond the EU: SAM.gov (US federal), simap.ch (Switzerland) and CanadaBuys (Canada). The source status endpoint reports what is actually polled and when it last succeeded.

The public preview, the self-serve API key and the guided pilot phase are free — no credit card required. The planned paid plans are Pro at €149/month, Agent at €499/month (higher API limits, full-text search, agent API, A2A/MCP, priority) and single-procedure bid support at €1,499; they only start if you actively choose one after the pilot. Online checkout is not yet enabled; pilot access is arranged personally and granted via magic link. Prices are identical to our German sister platform — one price system.

Yes — Germany: GAEB DA XML X83/X84 bills of quantities are parsed read-only (sections, items, quantities, units, prices) with CSV/XLSX export. GAEB is a German standard; for other countries we evaluate common bill-of-quantities formats by demand. Automated calculation or bid submission is out of scope.

In open procedures above the EU thresholds the minimum time limit for receipt of tenders is 35 days from the contract notice, reducible to 30 days for electronic submission. Other procedure types and urgency rules differ. Always verify the deadline in the specific notice — our cards always link to the original source.

Yes. EU procurement law explicitly encourages SME participation, for example by dividing contracts into lots. Many contracting authorities favour smaller, specialised suppliers. A well-configured profile helps you find procedures that match your size and capacity instead of drowning in irrelevant notices.

Two things: honesty and agent-nativeness. We state exactly which sources are polled and when they last succeeded, instead of claiming universal coverage. And the platform is built API-first, with structured JSON, explainable scores and agent discovery metadata — so both your team and your AI agents can work with the data.