@pipeworx/korea-tenders

Connect: https://pipeworx.io/mcp — every tool in the catalog, including @pipeworx/korea-tenders’s. Install: one-click buttons

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Tools: 4

Open South Korean government procurement: bid notices currently open on KONEPS (나라장터, the Public Procurement Service portal), Defense e-Procurement, LH, K-water and Nuri-jangteo, plus the suppliers that hold KONEPS contracts, all from Korean public-data-portal (data.go.kr) feeds as assembled by BOIM (boim.io). Keyless, live per request.

Tools

• korea_search_tenders(query?, category?, type?, region?, limit?) — open bid notices by free text (title / buying agency), category word, type (goods / services / construction / other) and buyer region. Each notice carries title, type, source portal, category and group, buyer, closing deadline (KST), estimated price in KRW, contract and award method, and the g2b.go.kr notice URL. Closest deadline first; only notices still open.
• korea_search_vendors(query?, category?, group?, region?, cert?, limit?) — suppliers with KONEPS shopping-mall contract items or deliveries in the last 12 months, by item category, group, region, name and certification (여성기업, 사회적기업, 장애인기업, …). Returns the vendor id for the next tool.
• korea_get_vendor(id) — one vendor in full: per-item 12-month records and amounts, contract items, top agencies, contract methods, PPS price ranges, certifications, supply regions, business-registration status, data limits.
• korea_list_categories(group?) — the Public Procurement Service item taxonomy (물품분류): all groups with their top categories, or every category in one group with its 8-digit code and vendor count.

Auth

Keyless.

Data sources

• https://boim.io/api/mcp — BOIM’s public MCP endpoint (JSON-RPC tools/call); this pack calls find_public_bids, search_vendors, get_vendor and list_categories and reshapes the results.
• BOIM assembles, twice daily, five bid feeds from the Korean public-data portal (data.go.kr): PPS KONEPS bid notices (15129394), Defense e-Procurement (15158416), LH (15159012), K-water (15101635), PPS Nuri-jangteo (15129456); vendor cards come from the KONEPS shopping-mall item service (15129471) and contract-information service (15129427). The portal lists all of them with no reuse restriction (이용허락범위 제한 없음).
• BOIM’s terms (https://boim.io/terms/, effective 2026-10-06) welcome per-request MCP/API use within the free range and forbid bulk collection or redistribution — this pack only proxies per call and stores nothing.

Things the next person would otherwise rediscover

• BOIM matches ONE Korean phrase. query: "소프트웨어 유지보수" returns 0; "소프트웨어" returns rows. English is not matched at all. The pack maps common English terms (software, IT services, cloud, construction, drone, CCTV, Seoul, Gyeonggi, …) to a single Korean term and reports what it sent in query_sent; anything outside the alias table passes through unchanged, so an untranslated English word yields an honest zero with a note.
• type must be Korean upstream (물품 / 용역 / 공사 / 기타); the pack accepts English and rejects anything else loudly rather than silently returning all.
• list_categories with a group still answers under a groups key (one group, with its categories nested); there is no top-level categories.
• Vendor ordering is relevance → card completeness → daily rotation (rotation_seed), explicitly not by procurement volume; the same search returns a different page tomorrow. Vendor ids are stable.
• Dates: bid deadline is ISO with a +09:00 offset; vendor dates arrive as YYYYMMDD and are reshaped to YYYY-MM-DD in the search tool (the full vendor card is passed through as received).
• The official KONEPS open API on data.go.kr needs a registered service key (SERVICE_KEY_IS_NULL without one). None is held, so BOIM is the route; if a key is ever funded the same tool shape can be re-pointed at apis.data.go.kr/1230000/ad/BidPublicInfoService.

Tools

• korea_search_tenders — Open South Korean government bids (KONEPS, Defense, LH, K-water) by text, category, type and region.
• korea_search_vendors — South Korean public-procurement suppliers by item, region and certification, from KONEPS contract and delivery records.
• korea_get_vendor — One Korean public-procurement vendor in full — deliveries, contract items, agencies, prices, certifications.
• korea_list_categories — Korean Public Procurement Service item groups and categories, with vendor counts.