Use BidFinder in Claude

Server URL

https://bids.urbanodx.com/mcp

To add it by hand, create a custom connector in Claude named BidFinder with this URL. Leave the OAuth client ID and secret empty: Claude registers itself.

Sign-in

The connector needs a free BidFinder account, made while you connect if you have none. When you add it, Claude opens BidFinder's sign-in page: enter your email, type the 6-digit code we email you (it expires in 10 minutes), then press Allow. No password, and no Google or other outside sign-in.

Claude then holds an access token that reads BidFinder's public tender data for your account; it never sees a password, and the connector cannot apply, contact anyone, buy or change anything. Access tokens last one hour and Claude renews them; a connection unused for 30 days ends on its own. To disconnect, remove the connector in Claude.

Tools

• search_tenders: open tenders in one country, filtered by keywords, category, region and deadline range, newest first or soonest deadline first, up to 25 per call.
• get_tender: one tender's details: buyer, place, deadline in local time, estimated value when the notice states one, notice number, a description excerpt and the official notice link.
• list_coverage: the countries covered, their official sources and how often they are read, open tender counts, the last refresh time and the top categories.

Example prompts

• "Find open cleaning tenders in São Paulo state with a deadline in the next two weeks."
• "Which IT and software tenders are open in Germany right now? List the buyers and deadlines."
• "¿Qué licitaciones de obras y construcción hay abiertas en Antioquia, Colombia?"

Titles and descriptions stay in the notice's own language, so keywords work best in that language (Portuguese for Brazil, Japanese for Japan, Spanish for Chile and Colombia, German for Germany, French for France, English for the United States and South Africa).

Data sources and refresh

The connector reads only BidFinder's database; it never calls a government feed while it answers. BidFinder reads the feeds on its own schedule:

• Brazil: PNCP, read every 3 hours.
• United States: SAM.gov, read daily at 06:00 UTC.
• Japan: 官公需情報ポータルサイト search API (kkj.go.jp), read every 6 hours. Every Japanese result carries the credit "Source: kkj.go.jp API" (www.kkj.go.jp/s/), as its terms ask.
• Chile: Mercado Público, read every 3 hours.
• Colombia: SECOP II, read daily at 22:00 UTC.
• South Africa: eTenders, read every 6 hours.
• Germany: TED, read every 12 hours; Datenservice Öffentlicher Einkauf, read daily at 07:00 UTC.
• France: TED, read every 12 hours; BOAMP, read every 4 hours.

Licenses and how each feed is read: About BidFinder.

What is stored and logged

Signing in stores your account (your email address) and the connection's tokens as one-way hashes; the privacy page lists what is kept and for how long. Your Claude conversations never reach BidFinder, only the tool calls. For each tool call BidFinder adds one to a daily counter: the tool's name, the UTC day, how many results it returned, a range for how long it took, the names of the filters used (for example "category", never the category asked for) and the country code. It stores no search words, no tender ids, no IP address, no user agent and nothing from your conversation. Like any request to the site, a connector call appears in the web server's standard access log for a short time; that line holds the path /mcp, not what was searched.

Privacy and contact

The privacy page covers the whole site. Questions or problems with the connector: write through urbanodx.com.

BidFinder is not a government site and does not take offers. Always read the official notice before you bid.