Japan Procurement

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Japan Procurement MCP — Japanese government tender notices (bid announcements) from national ministries, all 47 prefectures and municipalities, sourced from the Kankoju public procurement portal run by the Japan SME Agency.

4 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

japan_tenders_by_prefecture

List Japanese government tender notices for one or more prefectures without needing a keyword — the way to browse what a given prefecture published recently. Sourced from the 官公需情報ポータルサイト (Kankoju pub

No parameters required.

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japan_tenders_by_organization

List Japanese government tender notices published by a named buyer — a ministry, agency, prefecture or city — matched on partial organisation name (e.g. "国土交通省", "防衛省", "横浜市"). Sourced from the 官公需情報ポ

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japan_tender_reference

Reference values accepted by the Japanese tender search tools: the three procurement categories, the notice/procedure types, and all 47 JIS X0401 prefecture codes with Japanese and romanised names. Ca

No parameters required.

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/japan-procurement/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/japan-procurement/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"japan_tenders_search","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("japan_tenders_search", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("japan procurement mcp — japanese government tender notices (bid announcements) from national ministries, all 47 prefectures and municipalities, sourced from the kankoju public procurement portal run by the japan sme agency");