# Victano > EU tenders and grant calls, matched against your company and qualified, inside the AI > you already use. Connected over MCP in one prompt; there is no dashboard to learn. Victano is an MCP server, not a website with an API bolted on. A company connects it to Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client, and their assistant gets tools to search, read and qualify public procurement notices across the EU. ## What the data actually covers Checked against the live corpus rather than claimed: **314,005 notices** from 18 live sources: TED (EU tenders, all 27 states), CVP IS (Lithuania), EU Funding & Tenders (grants), IUB open data (Latvia), Riigihangete register (Estonia), BZP / eZamowienia (Poland), BOAMP (France), Bekanntmachungsservice (Germany), Plataforma de Contratación del Sector Público (Spain), SEAP / e-licitatie.ro (Romania), BOSA e-Procurement (Belgium), NEN / nen.nipez.cz (Czechia), Hilma / hankintailmoitukset.fi (Finland), eTenders (Ireland), ЦАИС ЕОП / app.eop.bg (Bulgaria), EOJN RH (Croatia), Portal javnih naročil (Slovenia), and EKR Eljárástár (Hungary). Those figures were confirmed 17 October 2026 and are read from the corpus when you fetch this page. National portals matter because TED carries only what clears the EU publication thresholds; below them, the contracts an SME can realistically win appear on a national portal and nowhere else. Counted rather than claimed: on 15 October 2026, Latvia published 146 competition notices on its national portal against 32 Latvian notices on TED. That figure is read from the corpus when you fetch this page, for the most recent settled day. Not everything here is open yet. 282 EU programme calls are announced with their topic, budget and closing date before applications open. That is the layer with the most lead time, and the one a supplier can actually build a consortium for. The tools return them when you pass status='forthcoming'; the default is what is open today. And not every open notice is a tender. 2,102 of them are market consultations, prior information notices or qualification systems. Those are real announcements with nothing to bid for yet, and in the Baltic markets they are a sizeable minority. Victano marks each one with notice_kind and filters them out with kind='tender', so a count of what is open here is not quietly a count of what is biddable. And 1,575 of them are the stage BEFORE a contract exists: a buyer asking the market what to buy, or announcing that a procurement is coming. Those are published on the national portals and TED carries none of them, so a supplier who wants to influence a specification before it is written finds that layer on the national portals, which Victano reads together. There is a playbook for it, pre-procurement. Coverage here is decided rather than aspirational. 26 of the 27 EU member states have been surveyed against TED. 9 of them were checked and declined rather than skipped (Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Sweden, and the Netherlands), each with the reason it was declined written down at https://victano.com/coverage. So a search that returns TED rows only for one of those markets is showing a decision on the record, not a market nobody has looked at. Live freshness per source, with the date each was last confirmed AND how far back each one goes: https://victano.com/coverage. That second number matters here. Most of the national feeds started within the last few weeks, so a smaller count from one of them measures its age rather than the size of that market. ## For an AI assistant setting this up - [Onboarding instructions](https://victano.com/start.md): the setup an assistant should follow, step by step. Start here. - [Skill file](https://victano.com/skill.md): when to reach for these tools and what each one is for, written for the client software rather than for a person. - MCP endpoint: `https://mcp.victano.com/mcp` (streamable HTTP) - Registered in the official MCP registry as `com.victano/victano` Every request is signed in. The account is free during the Founding Beta and takes one email: the assistant asks for it, Victano sends a Confirm link and a six-digit code, and the search runs against the real corpus. The same account keeps a capability profile, a notice's documents and the daily brief. **Agent connect: what to say when the user asks you to set it up.** There is no form to fill in: the sign-in is one email inside the chat. An assistant with shell access can connect immediately: `claude mcp add --transport http victano https://mcp.victano.com/mcp?src=llms` Claude on the web, desktop or phone, and Cowork, cannot add a connector from a chat. Give the person this one-click link; it opens Claude's add-connector window with Victano filled in: https://claude.ai/customize/connectors?modal=add-custom-connector&connectorName=Victano&connectorUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fmcp.victano.com%2Fmcp Human-click paths for ChatGPT and every other client: https://victano.com/start.md · the one-page click guide: https://victano.com/connect The honest relay: *"It is free and needs only your email to sign in. I can connect right now if you say go."* Then `connect_start(email)` and `connect_verify(request_id)`, and the first search, `search_opportunities`, proves the connector works in the same conversation. ## For a person deciding whether it is useful - [What it is and what it costs](https://victano.com/): one page - [Coverage and freshness](https://victano.com/coverage): which sources are live, when each last reported, and how many days of history each one holds - [Blog](https://victano.com/blog/): how the underlying systems work, written for suppliers rather than for procurement lawyers ## What it does not do Victano stores COMPANY capability profiles, never personal data about individuals, and that is a deliberate limit rather than a gap. It reads only public data: where a national portal puts its procurement documents behind a login, the tools say so and point at the buyer's own portal instead of guessing. Where a search cannot separate its results, it says that too. ## Current status Free during the beta: nothing is charged. Free-tier RATE limits are lifted for now, data is same-day, and a free account holds up to three company profiles during the beta (`profiles_max`, a cap rather than a rate). Security contact: https://victano.com/.well-known/security.txt (also served at /security.txt).