swiss-procurement-mcp

<use_case>Resolve a partial organisation name to the procuring offices simap knows, when the user names an authority rather than a project.</use_case> Find public procurement offices by (partial) name. The public office list is large (~1 MB), so this fetches it once and filters client-side. Returns the office id, type (cantonal / federal / communal) and the linked institution id.

<use_case>Retrieve the full record for one publication once you have its ids: criteria, deadlines, classification codes and the procuring body.</use_case> Return the full record for one procurement publication. Both ids come from a `search_procurements` result. The record includes the order description, CPV and Swiss construction codes (BKP, NPK), deadlines and the procurement office — the BKP codes make this joinable with construction cost data and school-building planning.

<use_case>Trace one project through time — tender to award to correction. Use when the question is "what happened to this procurement?".</use_case> Return earlier publications of the same procurement project. Traces a project's lifecycle: tender → correction → award. An empty list is normal for a first publication. When the publication has lots (`lots_type` is "with" in the search result), pass `lot_id` from its `lots` list: upstream keeps the history per lot and refuses the request without one.

<use_case>Find who won, not what is open — all four award types at once. Use when the question is about completed procurement rather than current opportunities.</use_case> Search only awarded contracts (who won). Convenience wrapper over `search_procurements` that queries all four award publication types at once. Two coverage caveats. First, award coverage is uneven across cantons — some publish awards diligently, others rarely, so absence is not proof that no award happened. Second, the filter matches a project's NEWEST publication: a project awarded in May and corrected in June is no longer an "award" to this filter and drops out. Use `get_publication_history` on a project to see whether an award exists further back. `canton_match` works exactly as in `search_procurements` and defaults to matching the procuring body.

<use_case>Translate a keyword into Swiss construction cost codes (BKP, NPK, eBKP, OAG, CPC) — the bridge between a building topic and procurement filters.</use_case> Search Swiss construction classification codes by keyword. Args: system: One of bkp, npk, ebkp-h, ebkp-t, oag, cpc. query: Keyword. These are the Swiss construction cost standards (Baukostenplan, Normpositionen- katalog) used in building tenders — relevant for school-building procurement.

<use_case>Translate a keyword into the CPV classification codes needed to filter a search. Call this first when the user names a subject rather than a code.</use_case> Search CPV classification codes by keyword. CPV (Common Procurement Vocabulary) is the international code system used to filter `search_procurements` by category. Resolve a keyword like "Metall" to its code here, then pass the code to `search_procurements(cpv_codes=[...])`.

<use_case>Find open tenders matching a topic, canton, CPV code or date window — the default entry point when the question is "what is being tendered?".</use_case> Search Swiss public procurement projects on simap.ch. Covers all cantons and the Confederation, updated intraday. This is the entry point; use `get_procurement_details` with the returned ids for the full record. Note that simap indexes PROJECTS, not publications: one hit is one project, represented by its NEWEST publication. A project tendered in March and awarded in July appears once, as the July award. Use `get_publication_history` to see the earlier publications of a project. At least one filter is required — simap answers a filterless query with nothing rather than everything. Args: query: Free-text search over titles and descriptions. canton: Bare canton id, e.g. `ZH` (NOT `CH-ZH`). See `CANTON_IDS`. canton_match: How `canton` is interpreted. `procuring_body` (default) — procured by that canton's public bodies, including communal and subordinate offices. `place_of_delivery` — the work is delivered there. Beware: ~60% of publications carry no structured order address and are invisible to this filter. `both` — the union of the two. Costs two upstream calls and does not support `cursor`. cpv_codes: One or more CPV classification codes. Resolve names to codes with `search_cpv_codes` first. process_type: One of open, selective, invitation, direct, no_process. pub_type: Publication type. For awarded contracts use one of award_tender, award_study_contract, award_competition, direct_award — a plain "award" is rejected by the API. published_from / published_until: ISO dates `YYYY-MM-DD`. These filter on the NEWEST publication date of a project. cursor: Pagination cursor from a previous response's `next_cursor`. language: de, fr, it or en.

<use_case>Answer a question needing both the hit list and each hit's detail in one step, e.g. "which school-building tenders ran in ZH and what BKP codes do they carry?". Prefer this over search_procurements followed by N detail calls.</use_case> Search publications and return the FULL record for the top matches at once. Aggregated entry point for the common "find tenders and show me their details" question: it runs the search and then fetches `get_procurement_details` for the first `top_n` hits in parallel, so a typical query is answered in a single tool call instead of a search-then-N-details chain. Each result carries the CPV and Swiss construction codes (BKP, NPK), deadlines and procurement office. Prefer `search_procurements` when you only need the summaries or want to paginate; use this when you want the leading hits fully expanded immediately. Args: top_n: How many of the top hits to expand to full detail (1-5). query, canton, canton_match, cpv_codes, process_type, pub_type, published_from, published_until, language: identical to `search_procurements` — including the `canton_match` semantics, which default to matching the procuring body.

<use_case>Check whether simap.ch is reachable and how fast it is responding. Call this when a search returns nothing and you need to distinguish "no matching tenders" from "the source could not be asked" — the two are not the same answer.</use_case> Report reachability and latency of the simap.ch read API.