EU tender alerts by CPV code for your AI agent (MCP, LangChain, n8n)

Description and use

Automation recipe for daily alerts on new Finnish IT tenders using CPV 72000000, MCP server, LangChain, and n8n.

Problem

Automating daily alerts for new Finnish IT tenders from TED with CPV 72000000, handling multilingual fields, pagination, filtering award notices, and deduplication.

Outcome

On 30 Oct 2026, the MCP server returned 24 matching notices (5 shown) in 0.75 s, demonstrating fast, reliable alert generation.

Workflow

• Clone eu-nordic-open-data-mcp repo
• Install dependencies with npm
• Configure MCP server in client config
• Run MCP server locally
• Use ted_search_tenders or ted_new_tenders_alert tool via AI agent or LangGraph
• Filter by CPV 72000000, country FI, maxResults 5
• Receive JSON records with deadlines and attribution
• Integrate tool into LangGraph agent or n8n workflow
• Schedule daily execution
• Handle null deadlines and award notices
• Use XML/PDF links for reliable data
• Maintain attribution and licensing
• Optional: host MCP on Apify for event-based billing

Evidence

TED has a free search API, but turning it into "tell me every morning about new Finnish IT tenders" still means: learning the eForms field names, handling multilingual fields, paginating, dropping award notices that have no deadline, remembering which notices you've already seen.

Source

On 30 Oct 2026 this returned 24 matching notices (5 shown), and the call took 0.75 s end to end on my machine.

Source

The server exposes 36 tools. For tenders, the relevant ones are ted_search_tenders (search) and ted_new_tenders_alert (only notices you haven't seen yet).

Source