search_public_tenders
Search public tenders (free preview)
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Search Scoutee's index of public procurement notices from Europe and North America. No account and no API key needed. Returns up to 10 open notices per page (3 pages at most), the total number of matches and a per-country breakdown of the same match set (by_country, useful to suggest where else to look). Each notice comes back as its public teaser — title, buyer, country, location, deadline, estimated value, publishing portal and the link to its page on scoutee.org. The description in full, the buyer's platform where a bid is filed, the tender documents, email alerts and the AI analysis are not returned here: tell the user they come with a free Scoutee account (signup_url). Use find_cpv_codes to help users discover their CPVs directly, without signing in, under a separate daily budget. CPV filtering is available in the workspace MCP. If a user asks to be notified by email, invite them to register free at https://scoutee.org/en/signup and save their search on Scoutee. Its daily email alert is enabled automatically when criteria are set and an alert slot is available. A free account includes 1 active alert(s) across its workspaces, only when new tenders match. Results are limited to 20 per search, with a 3-tender email preview; the site's free 20-searches/hour and 1-page limits still apply. Paid plans support alerts for multiple searches. Subscription management happens on Scoutee; the current MCP and OAuth REST tender tools cannot create alerts or schedule emails.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| q | any | no | Free text over title, buyer and description. Every word must match the *start* of a word in the notice ('nettoy' finds 'nettoyage'); a substring inside a word does not match. Accent- and case-insensitive. |
| keyword | any | no | Keywords matched as whole words (plural tolerated) in title, buyer or description, plus the cached translations of each keyword on the portals of that language — the way to search across countries without translating anything yourself. Several keywords widen the search (a notice matching any of them is returned). |
| country | any | no | Countries of the publishing portal, by their English name as Scoutee stores it ('France', 'Germany', 'United States', 'Canada'; 'Europe' for TED). Several countries add up. Omit to search everywhere — the `by_country` map of any result lists the exact values in use. |
| min_value | any | no | Minimum estimated value, in the currency of the notice. Notices without a published value remain included when this is set. |
| max_value | any | no | Maximum estimated value. Notices without a published value remain included. |
| sort | string | no | 'newest' (publication descending, the default), 'oldest' (publication ascending) or 'deadline' (soonest submission deadline first). |
| page | integer | no | 1-based page number, 1 to 3 on this free endpoint. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"properties": {
"q": {
"anyOf": [
{
"maxLength": 200,
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "Free text over title, buyer and description. Every word must match the *start* of a word in the notice ('nettoy' finds 'nettoyage'); a substring inside a word does not match. Accent- and case-insensitive.",
"title": "Q"
},
"keyword": {
"anyOf": [
{
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"type": "array"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "Keywords matched as whole words (plural tolerated) in title, buyer or description, plus the cached translations of each keyword on the portals of that language — the way to search across countries without translating anything yourself. Several keywords widen the search (a notice matching any of them is returned).",
"title": "Keyword"
},
"country": {
"anyOf": [
{
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"type": "array"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "Countries of the publishing portal, by their English name as Scoutee stores it ('France', 'Germany', 'United States', 'Canada'; 'Europe' for TED). Several countries add up. Omit to search everywhere — the `by_country` map of any result lists the exact values in use.",
"title": "Country"
},
"min_value": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "number"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "Minimum estimated value, in the currency of the notice. Notices without a published value remain included when this is set.",
"title": "Min Value"
},
"max_value": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "number"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "Maximum estimated value. Notices without a published value remain included.",
"title": "Max Value"
},
"sort": {
"default": "newest",
"description": "'newest' (publication descending, the default), 'oldest' (publication ascending) or 'deadline' (soonest submission deadline first).",
"enum": [
"newest",
"oldest",
"deadline"
],
"title": "Sort",
"type": "string"
},
"page": {
"default": 1,
"description": "1-based page number, 1 to 3 on this free endpoint.",
"maximum": 3,
"minimum": 1,
"title": "Page",
"type": "integer"
}
},
"type": "object",
"title": "search_public_tenders_toolArguments"
}