Oro Intel MCP — UK Public Procurement Data for AI Agents

UK public procurement data for AI agents — tenders, contracts, buyer and supplier profiles over MCP and REST. 250 free credits.

Give any AI agent live UK public-sector procurement data — tender notices, awarded contracts, buyer (council/department) and supplier profiles — over MCP or a plain REST API. Same account, same credits, both transports. Charged on success only.

• What it covers: UK Contracts Finder + Find a Tender notices, awarded contracts and their documents, company/supplier profiles, buyer profiles, frameworks, bulk export.
• Who it's for: agent builders, procurement/bid-writing tools, market-intelligence and govtech apps.
• Remote & hosted: nothing to run locally. Point your client at the URL.
• Auth: sign in with OAuth (interactive clients — no key to copy), or send an API key as Authorization: Bearer oro_... (headless agents and scripts).

60-second quickstart

1. Interactive client (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor…): add the server below and sign in when prompted — done. Headless/scripts: create a key at https://app.oro-intel.com/dashboard/developers (shown once).
2. Add the server to your client (matrix below).
3. Ask: "search UK tenders for EV charging in the last 30 days."

Install

Endpoint: https://api.oro-intel.com/mcp/ — keep the trailing slash. Interactive clients: OAuth sign-in, no header needed. Headless: header Authorization: Bearer oro_YOUR_KEY.

<details open><summary><b>Claude Code</b></summary>

claude mcp add --transport http oro-intel https://api.oro-intel.com/mcp/

Sign in in the browser window that opens (or run /mcp → oro-intel → Authenticate). For headless use, pass a key instead:

claude mcp add --transport http oro-intel https://api.oro-intel.com/mcp/ \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer oro_YOUR_KEY"

If the header is dropped, add to ~/.claude.json under mcpServers:

"oro-intel": {
  "type": "http",
  "url": "https://api.oro-intel.com/mcp/",
  "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer oro_YOUR_KEY" }
}

</details>

<details><summary><b>Claude Desktop & claude.ai</b></summary>

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector. Name it Oro Intel, paste https://api.oro-intel.com/mcp/, click Add, sign in when prompted.

Or edit claude_desktop_config.json:

{ "mcpServers": { "oro-intel": {
  "type": "http",
  "url": "https://api.oro-intel.com/mcp/",
  "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer oro_YOUR_KEY" } } } }

</details>

<details><summary><b>Cursor</b></summary>

Settings → MCP → Add new MCP server, or .cursor/mcp.json (project) / ~/.cursor/mcp.json (global):

{ "mcpServers": { "oro-intel": {
  "url": "https://api.oro-intel.com/mcp/",
  "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer oro_YOUR_KEY" } } } }

Omit headers to use OAuth sign-in instead. </details>

<details><summary><b>Windsurf</b></summary>

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json:

{ "mcpServers": { "oro-intel": {
  "serverUrl": "https://api.oro-intel.com/mcp/",
  "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer oro_YOUR_KEY" } } } }

</details>

<details><summary><b>VS Code (Copilot agent mode)</b></summary>

.vscode/mcp.json:

{ "servers": { "oro-intel": {
    "type": "http",
    "url": "https://api.oro-intel.com/mcp/",
    "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${input:oro_key}" } } },
  "inputs": [ { "type": "promptString", "id": "oro_key",
    "description": "Oro Intel API key", "password": true } ] }

</details>

<details><summary><b>ChatGPT (Developer Mode)</b></summary>

Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings → Developer mode (Plus/Pro), then Create connector with MCP server URL https://api.oro-intel.com/mcp/. Choose OAuth and sign in when prompted. (Remote streamable-HTTP only.) </details>

<details><summary><b>Codex</b></summary>

codex mcp add oro-intel --url https://api.oro-intel.com/mcp/

Or ~/.codex/config.toml:

[mcp_servers.oro-intel]
url = "https://api.oro-intel.com/mcp/"

</details>

<details><summary><b>Gemini CLI</b></summary>

~/.gemini/settings.json:

{ "mcpServers": { "oro-intel": { "httpUrl": "https://api.oro-intel.com/mcp/" } } }

Restart the CLI and sign in in the browser window that opens on first use. </details>

<details><summary><b>Cline / any other client</b></summary>

Any client that supports remote streamable-HTTP MCP works: URL https://api.oro-intel.com/mcp/, and either OAuth sign-in or the header Authorization: Bearer oro_YOUR_KEY.

"oro-intel": {
  "type": "http",
  "url": "https://api.oro-intel.com/mcp/",
  "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer oro_YOUR_KEY" }
}

</details>

Tools

The MCP tools mirror the REST API one-to-one and carry the same credit costs. Each tool description states its cost, so the agent knows before it calls. 1 credit = £0.01.

Tool	What it returns	Credits
oro_search_notices	Search tender/contract notices	2
oro_search_tenders	Search live (open) tenders	2
oro_lookup_contract	Full record for one notice/contract	5
oro_contract_documents	Documents attached to a contract	10
oro_lookup_company	Resolve a company name → record	5
oro_company_contracts	Contracts a company has won	10
oro_company_profile	Flagship — full supplier profile: core record + every contract won, one call	12
oro_lookup_buyer	Resolve a buyer (council/dept) name → record	5
oro_buyer_contracts	Contracts a buyer has issued	10
oro_buyer_profile	Full buyer profile	20
oro_lookup_framework	Framework agreement record	5
oro_bulk_export	Bulk pull for a query	100 / 1,000 rows
oro_get_balance	Remaining credits	free

Auth & credits

One account covers both API and MCP. 250 free credits on signup; 1 credit = £0.01. Charged on success only — an empty lookup isn't billed. Pass an Idempotency-Key header so retries never double-bill. Out of credits → 402 insufficient_credits with a top_up_url in the body.

Every metered response echoes credits_charged and credits_remaining.

Also available as a REST API

Prefer plain HTTP? Same data, same key: https://api.oro-intel.com/v1/* (OpenAPI 3.1: https://api.oro-intel.com/openapi.json).

curl -s "https://api.oro-intel.com/v1/companies/search?name=Serco" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ORO_API_KEY"

Examples

Runnable snippets in /examples: curl · Python · JavaScript · LangChain · LlamaIndex · OpenAI function calling · Vercel AI SDK · PydanticAI. Every example runs the flagship flow — resolve a company by name, then fetch its full profile — and prints credits_charged / credits_remaining.

Links

Docs https://documentation.oro-intel.com · MCP guide https://documentation.oro-intel.com/docs/mcp · Quickstart https://documentation.oro-intel.com/docs/quickstart · Agents start here https://documentation.oro-intel.com/llms.txt · Status https://documentation.oro-intel.com/docs/status · Changelog CHANGELOG.md