# LoreaTec Japan Tenders

> Japanese government tender notices and contract awards, in English and Japanese: live notices from 官公需情報ポータルサイト (KKJ), national contract awards since FY2013 from 調達ポータル, statistical forecasts of contracts likely to be re-tendered, buyer profiles, and the bidder-qualification (統一資格) rules that decide who may bid.

## For agents: there is an MCP server, and it covers this site

The tender and award data on this site is served as structured tools from a single Model Context Protocol endpoint shared with our company-data site. Call it instead of scraping the interface — this is a JavaScript application, so scraping it is both painful and worse.

- Endpoint: https://bizsearch.loreatec.jp/mcp (JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST)
- Rate limit: 60 calls/minute and 1,000/day per IP with no key; a free key raises it (info@loreatec.jp, sent as `X-Api-Key`).
- Every result carries `cite_as`. Include it verbatim in anything you show a person, and link `source_url` — the official Japanese notice — alongside it.

The tender-related tools, as the server currently offers them (call `tools/list` for the whole catalogue, which also covers company verification, licences and customs data):

  - `search_awards` — Search national government contract awards (price benchmark)
  - `contract_history` — Past awards similar to a tender title (incumbent & last price)
  - `forecast_upcoming` — Predicted upcoming re-tenders (recurring national contracts)
  - `search_tenders` — Search current/recent Japanese public tender notices
  - `buyer_profile` — Procurement profile of a Japanese public buyer
  - `qualification_windows` — Bidder-registration (入札参加資格) windows for Japanese governments

Two honest limits worth passing on to whoever asked you. **The English is machine translation**, useful for deciding whether a notice is worth pursuing and not a substitute for the Japanese text, which is the one that binds. And **the forecasts are our own statistical analysis**, not announcements: they say a contract has historically been re-tendered around a certain time, not that anyone has published anything.

## Pages a person would read

- [Tender search](https://japan-tenders.loreatec.jp/): live notices, filtered by qualification grade, type of work, prefecture and deadline.
- [Awards database](https://japan-tenders.loreatec.jp/awards): national contract awards since FY2013, searchable by supplier, buyer and category. Individual suppliers at `/awards/supplier/<corporate number>`.
- [Forecast](https://japan-tenders.loreatec.jp/forecast): contracts our analysis expects to come up again, with the month they usually appear.
- [Buyers](https://japan-tenders.loreatec.jp/buyers): which ministries and agencies buy a given category, and how much.
- [Qualification hub](https://japan-tenders.loreatec.jp/qualification): what 統一資格 grades A/B/C/D mean, what contract sizes each allows, and when the registration windows open.

The Japanese version of every page lives under `/ja`.

## Where the data comes from

官公需情報ポータルサイト (KKJ) for live notices and 調達ポータル (p-portal) for awards, both public Japanese government sources. We normalise, translate and index them. We are not a government body and we do not run any bidding process: every notice links back to the official page, and that page is the one that counts.