Public procurement MCP and supplier intelligence

Investigate a supplier from every angle.

DataGardener MCP lets a procurement team's AI agent discover UK suppliers, check their financial resilience, ownership and director history, and see their public-sector awards and spend with other buyers. Every answer carries its source and date, which is what supplier due diligence and responsible procurement require.

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The problem

Where the research goes today.

Supplier discovery is a spreadsheet exercise
Finding SMEs, diverse suppliers or local businesses in a category means exports, filters and cross-referencing several databases.
Due diligence is repeated by hand
Ownership, directors, accounts and charges are checked one supplier at a time, then checked again at renewal.
Market engagement lacks evidence
Knowing who else a supplier works for, what they have won and how resilient they are shapes a better engagement strategy.

Example questions

Ask it the way you would ask an analyst.

“Which construction SMEs have won public-sector contracts in the North West and show strong financial resilience?”
“Which suppliers in this category have experienced ownership, financial or director changes?”
“Which of our suppliers are also paid by other councils, and how much?”
“Find VCSE or diverse-owned suppliers for this CPV code within 30 miles.”
“Who ultimately owns this supplier?”

Intelligence layers needed

The layers an agent draws on for procurement work.

Example MCP workflow

How the investigation runs.

1. Ask
A category manager pastes a supplier list or describes a category and region.
2. Resolve
The agent resolves names to registration numbers through the company index.
3. Investigate
Ownership, officers, accounts, charges, awards and spend are queried through entitled modules.
4. Report
One sourced page per supplier, with changes since the last check highlighted.

Choose a question

Question

Which construction SMEs have won public-sector contracts in the North West and show strong financial resilience?

Stage 1 of 5

Understanding the request

The agent breaks the question into the conditions it must satisfy.

Geography: North West
Sector: construction
Public awards
Resilience indicators

Each condition maps to one or more DataGardener intelligence layers. Nothing is guessed: if a condition cannot be evidenced, the agent says so.

Procurement
Company Intelligence
Financial Intelligence
Risk

Read this investigation as text

Question: Which construction SMEs have won public-sector contracts in the North West and show strong financial resilience?

Intent: Geography: North West; Sector: construction; Public awards; Resilience indicators.

Tools selected: search_contracts, execute_procurement_query, search_statutory_accounts, execute_query.

Modules queried: Contract Finder index (Awarded construction CPV codes, North West buyers, SME suitable: 2,207 awards); Company index (Resolve awarded suppliers to registration numbers, SME bands: 684 suppliers); Statutory accounts (Positive net assets, positive profit after tax, two consecutive years: 233 match); Company index (risk) (No late filings, no outstanding CCJ flags: 198 shortlisted).

Evidence connected: Award notice: buyer, value, date; Net assets and profit after tax across two filings; Filing punctuality and risk flags.

Answer: 198 construction SMEs in the North West have won public-sector work and show two years of positive net assets and profit, with no late filings. 46 of them have won from more than one buyer.

Provenance: Source Contracts Finder; Companies House accounts; date Awards to Oct 2026; accounts to 2025; module Procurement, Company, Financial, Risk; usage 198 company records.

Suggested next questions: Which of these are also in our supplier list? / Who are the directors in common? / Show awards by buyer for the top ten

Every answer arrives with its provenance

SourceNamed register or filingDateDate of the underlying documentModuleProcurement, Spend, CompanyCRNRegistration numberUsageReported per call

Time-saving logic

Due diligence time

If a supplier health check takes hours of analyst time across several sources, and your team performs dozens a month, an agent that runs the investigation and attaches the evidence can return most of that time to judgement rather than data gathering.

Estimated outcome

Monthly research hours today: 162
Hours potentially recovered per month: 97
Annual capacity recovered: 1,169 h; about 0.7 full-time equivalents
Estimated productivity value per year: £52,609

This is an estimate computed only from the assumptions you enter, using 4.33 weeks per month and 1,650 working hours per full-time equivalent. It does not include DataGardener MCP costs and is not a guarantee of savings. Validate the acceleration share with a pilot before relying on it.

Relevant proof

Evidence and illustrative workflows.

All case studies

Existing DataGardener case study

Building supplier diversity faster with a supplier intelligence platform

Unilever UK · Enterprise procurement

Unilever UK used DataGardener profiling and enrichment to identify diverse suppliers already in its network and to reduce the manual research involved.

diverse suppliers identified: 100+
reduction in manual research time: 80%

“With DataGardener's profiling and enrichment tools, we gained clarity on which suppliers in our network were diverse and could be supported further. The speed and accuracy have fundamentally improved how we approach supplier diversity.”
Procurement and Supplier Diversity Lead, Unilever UK

Outcome of the DataGardener Supplier Intelligence, not of DataGardener MCP. Source

Illustrative MCP workflow

Supplier due diligence from every angle

Illustrative workflow · Procurement

A procurement officer pastes a supplier list. The agent resolves each name to a registration number, checks ownership, directors, accounts, charges, public awards and spend with other buyers, and returns one page per supplier with sources and dates.

per supplier, sourced: 1 page
intelligence layers used: 7

Company
Ownership
People
Financial
Risk
Procurement
Spend

Illustrative workflow. Not a customer claim.

Procurement: frequently asked questions

Which procurement data does DataGardener MCP include?

UK public-sector contract notices and awards from the Contract Finder index, with buyer, supplier, value, CPV codes, region, status and SME suitability, plus published payment data resolved to suppliers.

Can public bodies buy DataGardener through a framework?

DataGardener Solutions Limited is a Crown Commercial Service supplier with three services listed on G-Cloud 14, and a Bloom accredited supplier. G-Cloud is a framework agreement that provides a compliant purchasing route; it is not an accreditation.

Does the agent change any supplier data?

No. Every DataGardener MCP tool is read-only; the server rejects write operations.

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