# TenderAPI

> TenderAPI documentation. REST API for EU public tenders.

## Table of Contents

### Introduction

- [Getting Started](https://docs.tenderapi.eu/getting-started.md): Get an API key, authenticate and make your first call to the TenderAPI REST API for EU public tenders.
- [Portals](https://docs.tenderapi.eu/portals.md): The European procurement portals TenderAPI collects from, their source identifiers and what each one covers.
- [Pagination](https://docs.tenderapi.eu/pagination.md): How cursor pagination works on TenderAPI search endpoints, and how to walk through every page of results.
- [Rate Limits](https://docs.tenderapi.eu/rate-limits.md): Per-minute rate limits, monthly quotas, rate limit headers and 429 responses of the TenderAPI REST API and MCP server.
- [Errors](https://docs.tenderapi.eu/errors.md): HTTP status codes and the JSON error body returned by the TenderAPI REST API.
- [API Reference](https://docs.tenderapi.eu/api-reference.md): Interactive OpenAPI reference for the TenderAPI REST API. Browse every endpoint and schema, and send test requests with your API key. The raw OpenAPI 3 spec is at https://docs.tenderapi.eu/openapi.yaml.

### Integrations

- [MCP Server](https://docs.tenderapi.eu/mcp-server.md): Connect the TenderAPI MCP server to Claude, Cursor, Gemini CLI or your editor and search EU tenders by chatting.

### Tenders

- [Search Tenders](https://docs.tenderapi.eu/search-tenders.md): Search and filter EU tenders by keyword, CPV code, country, value, status and deadline across all connected portals.
- [Get Tender](https://docs.tenderapi.eu/get-tender.md): Fetch one tender by id, including its full description, lots, values, deadlines and the organisations involved.

### Organisations

- [Search Organisations](https://docs.tenderapi.eu/search-organisations.md): Find buyers and suppliers by name or country, and get the organisation id used by the other endpoints.
- [Get Organisation](https://docs.tenderapi.eu/get-organisation.md): Fetch one organisation by id, with its name, address, country and identifiers.
- [Organisation Tenders](https://docs.tenderapi.eu/organisation-tenders.md): List the tenders an organisation is involved in as a buyer, a winner, or both.