🇯🇵 Japan · tenders · suppliers · agencies
Your private intelligence officer for Japanese government procurement.
Japan’s government procurement is governed by strict WTO GPA compliance, with detailed technical specifications and rigorous quality standards enforced across every ministry and agency. JETRO publishes English-language tender notices, but the sheer volume and specificity make manual search impractical. Sell to State indexes and structures every listing so you find relevant opportunities in seconds.
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How Sell to State works.
Three steps between you and every Japanese government tender.
Ask in Plain English
Describe the contracts you want in plain language. Sell to State understands Japan’s procurement taxonomy — WTO-threshold tenders, ministry categories, and technical specification requirements.
Or perhaps: “Which agencies are looking for cybersecurity consultants?”
Sell to State Searches JETRO Tenders
Sell to State indexes JETRO’s tender database covering all central government ministries, independent administrative agencies, and designated public corporations that meet WTO GPA thresholds.
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 tender numbers, procuring ministries, estimated values in JPY, qualification requirements, and submission periods — formatted for compliance review.
Clean. Structured. Ready for your pipeline.
Ready to search JETRO tenders?
Sign Up →Why Sell to State for Japan?
Standards Decoded
Japan’s tenders are specification-heavy. Sell to State parses technical requirements so you match capabilities to opportunities faster.
Always Current
Sell to State indexes JETRO tender notices continuously — every ministry and designated agency covered.
Plain English
Natural language search across Japan’s structured procurement notices. No Japanese bureaucratic terminology needed.
Export-Ready
Structured data with tender numbers, ministries, values in JPY, qualification criteria, and deadlines.
50+
Ministries & agencies
WTO GPA
Full compliance coverage
Seconds
Not hours to find tenders
JETRO
English tender notices
Who Sell to State is for.
IT Integrators
Find MIC, Digital Agency, and ministry IT modernisation tenders meeting WTO thresholds.
Medical Device Companies
Surface MHLW, national hospital, and health agency equipment procurement notices.
Defence & Aerospace
Track MOD and designated agency procurement for defence systems and aerospace components.
Frequently asked questions.
What is Sell to State? +
Sell to State is an AI-powered procurement search tool. It helps businesses find Japanese government tenders published through JETRO and the official gazette using natural language queries.
What is JETRO Tender Search? +
JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization) publishes English-language government procurement notices for tenders above WTO GPA thresholds. These cover central government ministries and designated agencies. Sell to State indexes this data for instant, intelligent search.
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? +
JPY 30,000 per month, or JPY 300,000 per year. Sign up to be notified when Sell to State launches for Japan.
What data does Sell to State cover? +
WTO GPA-threshold tenders published through JETRO: open tendering, selective tendering, and limited tendering from central government ministries, independent administrative agencies, and designated public corporations.
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.
Find tenders →
Search open government contract opportunities across 194 countries in plain English — one bid search engine instead of a dozen portals.
Tender alerts →
Set criteria once — sector, buyer, country — and new matching tenders are pushed to you within minutes of posting.
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.
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