Swiss public procurement (simap.ch): tenders, awards, CPV codes, all cantons + federal, read-only
Connect Swiss to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. Swiss public procurement (simap.ch): tenders, awards, CPV codes, all cantons + federal, read-only. The swiss mcp server is what makes that connection.
MCP server for Swiss public procurement — read access to the official simap.ch API, covering all cantons and the Confederation, updated intraday.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
search_procurements — Search projects by canton, CPV, process type, date, textsearch_procurements_detailed — Search + full detail for the top n hits in one call (aggregated)search_awards — Awarded contracts only (all four award types at once)get_procurement_details — Full record for one publicationget_publication_history — Earlier publications of the same project (tender → award)search_cpv_codes — Resolve keywords to CPV classification codessearch_construction_codes — Swiss construction codes (BKP, NPK, eBKP, OAG, CPC)find_procurement_office — Public procurement offices by partial namesource_status — Reachability and latency of the simap.ch APICandidate — Why it stays a toolDemo — The Demo tool exposed by this serverContainer — The image is multi-stage and runs as a non-root system user. compose.yaml adds a read-only root filesystem, drops all capabilities, setsThe server ships on PyPI as swiss-procurement-mcp, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
Plenty of file and storage access servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Swiss's toolset — search_procurements, search_procurements_detailed, search_awards and 10 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by malkreide; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| search_procurements | Search projects by canton, CPV, process type, date, text |
| search_procurements_detailed | Search + full detail for the top *n* hits in one call (aggregated) |
| search_awards | Awarded contracts only (all four award types at once) |
| get_procurement_details | Full record for one publication |
| get_publication_history | Earlier publications of the same project (tender → award) |
| search_cpv_codes | Resolve keywords to CPV classification codes |
| search_construction_codes | Swiss construction codes (BKP, NPK, eBKP, OAG, CPC) |
| find_procurement_office | Public procurement offices by partial name |
| source_status | Reachability and latency of the simap.ch API |
| Candidate | Why it stays a tool |
| Demo | The Demo tool exposed by this server. |
| Container | The image is multi-stage and runs as a non-root system user. compose.yaml adds a read-only root filesystem, drops all capabilities, sets no-new-privileges, and caps memory, CPU and PIDs. No secret is needed at runtime — |
| Configuration | No API keys — the wrapped simap.ch read endpoints are fully public. |
### Claude Desktop
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"swiss-procurement": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["swiss-procurement-mcp"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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