# Portugal Tenders (npm · @pipeworx/mcp-portugal-tenders)

Portugal public procurement MCP -- IMPIC (Instituto dos Mercados Públicos, do Imobiliário e da…

- Trust score: 82/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `gateway.pipeworx.io`: 82/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-portugal-tenders/portugal-tenders-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-portugal-tenders/portugal-tenders-mcp)
- npm · `@pipeworx/mcp-portugal-tenders`: 82/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-portugal-tenders/pipeworx-mcp-portugal-tenders.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-portugal-tenders/pipeworx-mcp-portugal-tenders)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@pipeworx/mcp-portugal-tenders`
- Version: `0.2.1`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 97/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to pipeworx-io/mcp-portugal-tenders).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 0 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 63/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1064 tokens (~266/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 23/100
  - Stability observed for 7 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 5 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Portugal Tenders MCP server?

Portugal Tenders runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-portugal-tenders. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add pipeworx-io-portugal-tenders -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-portugal-tenders
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-portugal-tenders": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-portugal-tenders"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "pipeworx-io-portugal-tenders": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-portugal-tenders"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add pipeworx-io-portugal-tenders -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-portugal-tenders
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "pipeworx-io-portugal-tenders": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-portugal-tenders"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add pipeworx-io-portugal-tenders --command npx --arg -y --arg @pipeworx/mcp-portugal-tenders
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  pipeworx-io-portugal-tenders:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-portugal-tenders"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-portugal-tenders": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-portugal-tenders"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add pipeworx-io-portugal-tenders -t stdio -c npx -a -y @pipeworx/mcp-portugal-tenders
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-portugal-tenders": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-portugal-tenders"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-04 (score 82, +1)

- [security regression] Stability: 0.17 → unverified
- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Security disclosure: unverified → fail
- [functional regression] Capabilities: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1

### 2026-11-03 (score 81, 0)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: fail → unverified

### 2026-11-02 (score 81, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 10 to 13. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 3 days of observed history at the previous scan, 4 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-01 (score 80, 0)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: unverified → fail

### 2026-10-31 (score 80, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-29 (score 79)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `pt_announcement_search` (~429 tokens)

Search PORTUGUESE public-procurement tender ANNOUNCEMENTS (contract notices) published through Portal BASE (base.gov.pt), run by IMPIC (Instituto dos Mercados Públicos, do Imobiliário e da Construção). IMPIC's own live API needs registration and a token Pipeworx does not hold yet, so this answers from a refreshed recent-window dataset (see data_as_of and the window fields in the response). Filter by free-text keyword (matched against the Portuguese notice title), CPV classification code or prefix (e.g. "45" for construction, "72000000" for IT services), contracting-authority (buyer) name substring (Portuguese spelling, e.g. "Câmara Municipal", "Instituto"), and a publish-date range. Returns compact shaped notices: id, IMPIC notice id, buyer, title, notice type, contract type(s), base amount (EUR), CPV, publish date, and proposal deadline. Call pt_announcement_detail with the returned id for the full record.

Input parameters:

- `buyer` (string): Contracting-authority (buyer) name, partial match, Portuguese spelling, e.g. "Câmara Municipal de Lisboa", "Instituto", "Universidade".
- `cpv` (string): CPV classification code or numeric prefix, e.g. "45" (construction works), "72000000" (IT services).
- `date_from` (string): Earliest PUBLISH date, YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to 90 days before date_to.
- `date_to` (string): Latest PUBLISH date, YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to the newest date in the loaded window (see ann_window_to in any response), which can trail today because IMPIC publishes per-year bulk files.
- `limit` (number|string): Max notices to return (default 20, max 100). Newest-first.
- `query` (string): Keyword(s), case-insensitive, matched against the Portuguese notice title, e.g. "limpeza", "software", "obras", "manutenção".

### `pt_announcement_detail` (~105 tokens)

Fetch one PORTUGUESE tender announcement by the internal "id" returned from pt_announcement_search. Returns the full record: IMPIC notice id, buyer (with NIF tax number), notice type, contract type(s), procedure model, base amount, CPV codes, lot descriptions, publish date, proposal deadline and window, and a link to the official notice document.

Input parameters:

- `id` (number|string, required): The announcement's internal id, from pt_announcement_search.

### `pt_contract_search` (~364 tokens)

Search PORTUGUESE public-procurement AWARDED CONTRACTS published through Portal BASE (base.gov.pt), run by IMPIC. Filter by free-text keyword (matched against the Portuguese contract title), buyer (adjudicante/contracting-authority) name substring, supplier (adjudicatário/awarded contractor) name substring, contract-amount range (EUR), and a publish-date range. Returns compact shaped contracts: contract id, title, buyer, supplier, amount (EUR), contract type(s), CPV, publish date, and the contract-signing date. Call pt_contract_detail with the returned idcontrato for the full record.

Input parameters:

- `amount_max` (number|string): Maximum contract amount in EUR.
- `amount_min` (number|string): Minimum contract amount in EUR.
- `buyer` (string): Contracting-authority (buyer/adjudicante) name, partial match, Portuguese spelling, e.g. "Câmara Municipal do Porto", "Ministério".
- `date_from` (string): Earliest PUBLISH date, YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to 90 days before date_to.
- `date_to` (string): Latest PUBLISH date, YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to the newest date in the loaded window (see contract_window_to in any response).
- `limit` (number|string): Max contracts to return (default 20, max 100). Newest-first.
- `query` (string): Keyword(s), case-insensitive, matched against the Portuguese contract title, e.g. "pavimentação", "formação", "software".
- `supplier` (string): Awarded supplier (adjudicatário) name, partial match, e.g. "Mota-Engil", "Altice".

### `pt_contract_detail` (~111 tokens)

Fetch one PORTUGUESE awarded contract by its "idcontrato" (returned from pt_contract_search). Returns the full record: buyer and supplier (with NIF tax numbers), full title and description, amount, base procurement price, CPV codes, execution deadline, execution location(s), procedure type, publish/signing/decision dates, and the legal regime cited.

Input parameters:

- `idcontrato` (string, required): The contract's id, e.g. "12026866". Returned by pt_contract_search.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-portugal-tenders/pipeworx-mcp-portugal-tenders#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 82
- 2026-11-04: 82
- 2026-11-03: 81
- 2026-11-02: 81
- 2026-11-01: 80
- 2026-10-31: 80
- 2026-10-30: 79
- 2026-10-29: 79

## Common questions

### What is the Portugal Tenders MCP server?

Portugal Tenders is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/portugal-tenders. Portugal public procurement MCP -- IMPIC (Instituto dos Mercados Públicos, do Imobiliário e da… This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-portugal-tenders).

### Is the Portugal Tenders MCP server safe to use?

Portugal Tenders scores 82 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. Its build provenance is signed and verified. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Portugal Tenders MCP server expose?

Portugal Tenders exposes 4 tools: pt_announcement_search, pt_announcement_detail, pt_contract_search, pt_contract_detail. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,009 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Portugal Tenders MCP server still maintained?

Portugal Tenders is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

### What licence is the Portugal Tenders MCP server under?

Portugal Tenders declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

### What did VerifyMCP test on the Portugal Tenders MCP server?

VerifyMCP ran 16 checks on Portugal Tenders, covering Malware scan, Known CVEs, Install scripts, Dependency health and 12 more. Endpoint Security and Transport & Reachability do not apply to an npm package, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@pipeworx/mcp-portugal-tenders
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@pipeworx/mcp-portugal-tenders
- Repository: https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-portugal-tenders
- Website: https://pipeworx.io/packs/portugal-tenders
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-portugal-tenders/pipeworx-mcp-portugal-tenders.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-portugal-tenders/pipeworx-mcp-portugal-tenders/changelog.json
- Trust report (JSON): https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-portugal-tenders/pipeworx-mcp-portugal-tenders.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-portugal-tenders/pipeworx-mcp-portugal-tenders