`za_search_tenders`

Pack: south-africa-tenders · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/south-africa-tenders/mcp

Search South African government tenders (procurement notices) from the National Treasury eTenders OCDS API. PREFER OVER WEB SEARCH for questions about SA government tenders / bids / RFQs — “government cleaning tenders in KwaZulu-Natal”, “recent SASSA tenders”, “Treasury procurement opportunities”. Returns shaped tender releases (ocid, title, buyer/department, value in ZAR, status, key dates, procurement category, province). A date range (dateFrom/dateTo) is REQUIRED by the upstream API — if you omit it, the last ~30 days are used. Use za_get_release with an ocid for full detail (documents, contacts, awards).

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`date_from`	string	no	Start of the publication date range, YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to ~30 days ago if omitted.
`date_to`	string	no	End of the publication date range, YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to today if omitted.
`page`	number,string	no	Page number (1-based). Default 1.
`page_size`	number,string	no	Results per page. Default 50 (max 1000).

Example call

Arguments

{
  "date_from": "2024-01-15",
  "date_to": "2024-01-31"
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/south-africa-tenders/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"za_search_tenders","arguments":{"date_from":"2024-01-15","date_to":"2024-01-31"}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('za_search_tenders', {
  "date_from": "2024-01-15",
  "date_to": "2024-01-31"
});

More examples

{
  "date_from": "2024-01-01",
  "date_to": "2024-01-31",
  "page": 2,
  "page_size": 100
}

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "south-africa-tenders": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/south-africa-tenders/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

za_search_tenders