# 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: **211,206 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 20 September 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. Not everything here is open yet. 270 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. 1,412 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 1,029 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 can only see that layer here. 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` No account is needed to try it. Without an account you can call: `search_opportunities`, `get_opportunity`, `connect_start`, `connect_verify`, `whoami`, `list_workflows`, `get_workflow`. That is 5000 calls a day from one address, against the real corpus rather than a sample, with nothing stored about the caller. An account is what a company creates to KEEP things: a capability profile, a notice's documents, the daily brief. **Agent connect: what to say when the user asks you to set it up.** No signup is required. An assistant with shell access can connect immediately: `claude mcp add --transport http victano https://mcp.victano.com/mcp?src=llms` Human-click paths for Claude (desktop, web, or Cowork), ChatGPT and every other client: https://victano.com/start.md · the one-page click guide: https://victano.com/connect The honest relay: *"No account needed. I can connect right now if you say go."* First call on the keyless trial: `search_opportunities`, to prove 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 - [Changelog](https://victano.com/changelog): what changed, dated, in plain language - [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 Founding Beta. Prices are shown on the site and nothing is charged; every free-tier RATE limit is lifted until checkout opens. The one cap that is not lifted is `profiles_max`: a free account holds one company profile, and the Consultant tier holds twelve. Security contact: https://victano.com/.well-known/security.txt (also served at /security.txt).