India Tenders README

@pipeworx/india-tenders

Active Government of India tenders from the official e-procurement portals: the Ministry of Defence portal (defproc.gov.in), the Central Public Procurement Portal (CPPP, including the GeM bids it lists), central PSU e-tenders, and nine state and sector GePNIC portals.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1689+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

Tools

• india_defence_tenders({query?, organisation?, closing_after?, include_psus?, include_large_orgs?, limit?}) — active India defence tenders: Army, Navy, Air Force, DRDO, Border Roads, Defence Estates, Coast Guard, Integrated Defence Staff (defproc.gov.in), plus defence PSUs (AWEIL, Armoured Vehicles Nigam, Munitions India, Yantra India, India Optel, Troop Comforts, shipyards) and DRDO / Defence Estates on the CPPP central portal. Answers "open India defence tenders".
• india_search_tenders({portal?, query?, organisation?, closing_after?, max_orgs?, include_large_orgs?, limit?}) — active tenders on one portal: central (CPPP central government), cpse, defence, maharashtra, tamil-nadu, kerala, west-bengal, rajasthan, delhi, coal-india, iocl, pmgsy.
• india_tender_organisations({portal?, query?}) — a portal's buying organisations with their live active-tender counts.
• india_get_tender({tender_id, portal?, organisation?}) — full detail for one tender: type, category, EMD, fee, value, location, pincode, every key date.
• india_cppp_latest_tenders({feed?, page?, pages?, query?}) — newest tenders on the CPPP all-portal feed (cppp), or GeM bids as listed by CPPP (gem).

Every response carries data_as_of. Dates are India Standard Time, returned as ISO 8601 with +05:30.

Auth

Keyless. All sources are public pages that need no account.

Data sources

• https://defproc.gov.in/nicgep/app?page=FrontEndTendersByOrganisation&service=page — Ministry of Defence e-Procurement.
• https://eprocure.gov.in/eprocure/app?page=FrontEndTendersByOrganisation&service=page — CPPP, central government.
• https://etenders.gov.in/eprocure/app?page=FrontEndTendersByOrganisation&service=page — central PSUs.
• mahatenders.gov.in, tntenders.gov.in, etenders.kerala.gov.in, wbtenders.gov.in, eproc.rajasthan.gov.in, govtprocurement.delhi.gov.in, coalindiatenders.nic.in, iocletenders.nic.in, pmgsytenders.gov.in — the same NIC GePNIC software, read the same way.
• https://eprocure.gov.in/cppp/latestactivetendersnew/cpppdata and /gemdata — the CPPP latest-tenders and GeM feeds.

Things the next person would otherwise rediscover:

• Accept-Language: * returns HTTP 500 on every GePNIC portal. Node's fetch sends that header by default, so a laptop smoke test fails while curl works. The pack sends en-IN.
• Keyword search is captcha-gated on GePNIC (FrontEndAdvancedSearch, FrontEndLatestActiveTenders) and on CPPP. The captcha-free route is "Tenders by Organisation": the organisation list, then one page per organisation with all its active tenders. The pack filters keywords over those pages.
• The per-organisation links are session-bound (session=T). Without the JSESSIONID cookie from the organisation-list response they return a 1.4 KB stale-session page. Every call opens its own session.
• Rows contain a commented-out <td>. Strip HTML comments before splitting cells, or every column after the title shifts by one.
• Military Engineer Services lists about 4,000 tenders on one 8.6 MB page (mostly a serialized page-state field) and takes 30 to 60 seconds. Organisations with 1,000 or more active tenders are opt-in: name them in organisation or pass include_large_orgs: true.
• etenders.gov.in is intermittently slow (3 s on one request, a 30 s timeout on the next). The defence tool gives the secondary portals a 15 s budget and reports portal_errors rather than failing.
• GeM itself (bidplus.gem.gov.in) and mod.gov.in refused connections from outside India in testing on 2026-10-04. GeM coverage comes from the CPPP gemdata feed instead.
• CPPP pagination wraps the target URL in base64 under ?url=; the inner page=N is the 1-based page shown to users. A bare ?page=N is ignored and returns page 1.

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

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

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/india-tenders/mcp returns the tools in the table above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx, discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and is the authoritative answer for a given day.

This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth, connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1689+ data sources. The only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx reaches all of them from either one.

No MCP client? Call it over HTTP

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/india_defence_tenders \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"query":"gen set","limit":5}'

No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/india_defence_tenders. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.

Standalone (no gateway account)

This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "india-tenders": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-india-tenders"]
    }
  }
}

Or run it directly to confirm it starts:

npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-india-tenders

It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about India Tenders data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

More

• Docs and guides
• pipeworx.io

License

MIT