# Recompete

> EU public-contract expiry intelligence. Which public contract expires when,
> who holds it, what it is worth, and the month a challenger should start
> selling. 204,049 contracts across 44 countries, carrying
> 2,290,002,890,191 EUR of contract value. Sourced from Tenders
> Electronic Daily (TED), the official EU procurement journal.

Tender alerts fire when a notice opens, by which point the specification is
written and the outcome is largely decided. A published expiry date sits 12-24
months upstream, in the window where a challenger can still shape requirements.

## What makes this data different

Provenance is a column, not a convention. Every row states which of its facts
the buyer published and which were computed:

- expiry_source: published (84.5%) or derived (15.5%)
  from a published start date plus a published duration.
- incumbent_scope: lot (the named supplier holds this specific lot) or notice
  (several suppliers named on a multi-lot award, lot link not published).
  A supplier is known for 92.4% of rows.
- value_scope: lot or notice. A single figure published against many lots is the
  notice total and is counted once, never once per lot.
- caveats: framework agreements may be extended past the published expiry;
  renewal options are surfaced per row.

Where TED does not publish a field it is null and the row says so. Nothing is
inferred to fill a gap.

## Agent interfaces

- [MCP endpoint](https://recompete.getvda.ai/mcp): streamable HTTP. `initialize`, `tools/list`
  and `tools/call`. Discovery is free and unauthenticated.
- [A2A endpoint](https://recompete.getvda.ai/a2a): JSON-RPC `message/send`.
- [Agent card](https://recompete.getvda.ai/.well-known/agent-card.json): A2A AgentCard with the
  full skill list.

## Skills

- `search_expiring_contracts` — Search expiring contracts. Which German IT contracts over 10 million euro expire in 2027?
- `describe_corpus_coverage` — Describe corpus coverage. What countries and sectors does the corpus cover?
- `get_contract_detail` — Get contract detail. Show contract 704667-2023 lot 0
- `supplier_portfolio` — Supplier portfolio. Which contracts does Atos hold across Europe and when do they expire?
- `buyer_procurement_history` — Buyer procurement history. What has the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs bought and from whom?
- `market_share` — Market concentration. Who holds the largest share of German IT services contract value?

## Paying for rows

Three routes, and aggregates are free on all of them:

1. A 14-day trial key from https://recompete.getvda.ai/freetrial — full row access, no card,
   sent as `Authorization: Bearer`. Works identically on REST, MCP and A2A.
2. A subscription key (Radar, Pro, Desk).
3. x402 per call — no account required. A paid capability answers HTTP 402 with
   an `accepts` array of PaymentRequirements (scheme `exact`, USDC); pay and
   the same call returns rows. Implemented; activates once a payout address is configured.
   Per-call prices: search_expiring_contracts $2.00, describe_corpus_coverage $0.00, get_contract_detail $2.00, supplier_portfolio $20.00, buyer_procurement_history $20.00, market_share $50.00.

Nevermined plans and credits are supported on the same endpoints where a plan is
configured, for callers who prefer subscriptions or card payment over a wallet.

## Free access

- [https://recompete.getvda.ai/api/free/summary](https://recompete.getvda.ai/api/free/summary): counts, aggregate
  value and the next window-opening date for any filter. No buyer name, no
  incumbent name, no contract value.
- [https://recompete.getvda.ai/freetrial](https://recompete.getvda.ai/freetrial): 14-day trial key, full row
  access, no card required.

## Pages

- [https://recompete.getvda.ai/](https://recompete.getvda.ai/): corpus overview and provenance explainer
- [https://recompete.getvda.ai/leads](https://recompete.getvda.ai/leads): browse expiring contracts by sector,
  country, value, grade and window
- [https://recompete.getvda.ai/coverage](https://recompete.getvda.ai/coverage): measured field coverage and known limits
- [https://recompete.getvda.ai/compare/stotles](https://recompete.getvda.ai/compare/stotles): how this compares
  to Stotles and other public-sector sales intelligence tools

## Commercial model

Vendors pay for delivered leads, never for outcomes. No fee is contingent on
winning a contract. Ranking is computed from published procurement data alone
and is not influenced by who pays.

## Source and licence

Tenders Electronic Daily, (c) European Union, 1998-2026. Procurement notices
published in the Supplement to the Official Journal may be freely reused for
commercial and non-commercial purposes under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU;
metadata is CC0 1.0. Every row carries the URL of its source notice.