🇯🇵 Japan · tenders · suppliers · agencies
Your private intelligence officer for Japanese government procurement.
Japan’s central government ministries and agencies publish their contract awards on the Government Procurement Portal (調達ポータル, p-portal), in Japanese. Sell to State loads these awards and makes them searchable in English: the contract, the ministry, the award date, the price in JPY and the winning company with its corporate number.
Free to browse · US$19 3-day pass · API, CLI & MCP included
How Sell to State works.
Three steps between you and Japan’s government contract awards.
Ask in Plain English
Describe the contracts you want in plain language. Sell to State matches your words against the Japanese titles of central government contracts.
Or perhaps: “Which agencies are looking for cybersecurity consultants?”
Sell to State Searches p-portal Awards
Sell to State indexes the successful-bid records that p-portal publishes for central government ministries and agencies, from the Cabinet Office to the Ministry of Defense.
Japan’s government procurement portal publishes thousands of opportunities. Sell to State reads them all so you can read none.
Receive Structured Contract Data
You receive structured results with the case number, the ministry, the award date, the award price in JPY and the winning company — ready to export.
Clean. Structured. Ready for your pipeline.
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Who Wins What
Each award names the winning company and its corporate number, so you see which suppliers win in your market.
Dated Records
We collect awards from each source on a regular schedule. Every record shows its publication date.
Plain English
Natural language search across Japan’s central government awards. No Japanese procurement terms needed.
Export-Ready
Structured data with case numbers, ministries, award dates and values in JPY.
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Ministries & agencies
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Award values
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Not hours to find contracts
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Official award records
Who Sell to State is for.
IT Integrators
See which companies win MIC, Digital Agency and other ministry IT contracts, and at what price.
Medical Device Companies
Find the MHLW contracts for medical equipment and services, and the companies that win them.
Defence & Aerospace
Track Ministry of Defense contract awards and the companies that win them.
Frequently asked questions.
What is Sell to State? +
Sell to State is a procurement search tool. For Japan, it shows the contracts that central government ministries and agencies awarded, from the Government Procurement Portal (p-portal), in English.
What is p-portal? +
p-portal (調達ポータル, the Government Procurement Portal) is the Japanese government site for central government procurement. It publishes calls for bids and, as open data, the successful-bid records of ministries and agencies. Sell to State uses the successful-bid records.
Who is Sell to State built for? +
International suppliers, IT systems integrators, defence and aerospace contractors, medical device companies, and consulting firms pursuing Japanese government contracts under WTO GPA provisions.
How much does Sell to State cost? +
Three options, billed in USD: a US$19 3-day pass (one payment, once per account), US$49/month, or US$499/year. One price covers your whole team, in every market we index. All payments are final.
What data does Sell to State cover? +
Contract awards of Japan’s central government ministries and agencies, from the p-portal successful-bid records: case number, title, award date, award price in JPY, ministry, procurement class and the winning company with its corporate number. Calls for bids and local government contracts are not in the data yet.
Can I use Sell to State as an MCP server? +
Yes. Sell to State provides an MCP interface for querying Japanese procurement data from AI assistants and developer environments.
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How suppliers find Japan tenders with Sell to State.
The same dataset reaches you five ways. Most suppliers start with search and alerts; teams plug the data into their own systems over export, API and MCP.
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Search open government contract opportunities across 194 countries in plain English — one bid search engine instead of a dozen portals.
Tender alerts →
Save your criteria once — sector, buyer, country — and see the new matching records in one place.
Procurement software →
Track who wins, size a market from award history, and qualify before you bid — eProcurement built for the sell side.
CSV export · REST API →
Export any result set to CSV, or pull the same data as JSON over a stable REST API — one bearer token, every country.
CLI · MCP server →
Script it from the CLI, or wire procurement awards straight into an AI agent over the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.
Simple pricing.
One flat plan. Whole-team access. Billed in USD.
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