🏛️ Government Contracts & Procurement MCP Server

Put the entire U.S. federal spending firehose in your AI agent's hands. Search contracts and grants by keyword, rank the top recipients in any market, see which agencies fund a topic, and profile any federal contractor — live from USAspending.gov, through the Model Context Protocol.

Built by NexGenData. Connect once and your agent can do GovCon market research, competitor intelligence, and lead generation on demand.

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⚡ What you get

Tool	What it does	Data source
search_federal_awards	Search contracts or grants by keyword	USAspending.gov
top_recipients	Rank contractors/grantees by award dollars	USAspending.gov
spending_by_agency	See which agencies fund a market	USAspending.gov
recipient_profile	Look up a specific contractor's awards	USAspending.gov

Results include award IDs, recipient names + UEIs, dollar amounts, awarding agencies, and dates — the official federal record.

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🎯 Use cases

• GovCon market sizing — quantify federal spend on a topic and who wins it.
• Competitive intelligence — pull a rival contractor's recent awards and totals.
• Lead generation — find the top-funded recipients in a niche to target as partners or customers.
• Capture planning — identify which agencies and sub-agencies buy what you sell.
• Due diligence — verify a vendor's federal track record before partnering.

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🚀 How to connect

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gov-contracts": {
      "url": "https://nexgendata--government-contracts-procurement-mcp-server.apify.actor/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" }
    }
  }
}

Get a free Apify token at apify.com.

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📊 Sample inputs

search_federal_awards(keyword="cybersecurity", award_type="contracts", max_results=15)
top_recipients(keyword="artificial intelligence", fiscal_year=2024)
spending_by_agency(keyword="renewable energy")
recipient_profile(name="Booz Allen")

📦 Sample output (search_federal_awards)

{
  "keyword": "cybersecurity",
  "award_type": "contracts",
  "awards": [
    {
      "Award ID": "W91ZRU25FA002",
      "Recipient Name": "MICROTECHNOLOGIES LLC",
      "Award Amount": 30127.4,
      "Awarding Agency": "Department of Defense",
      "Start Date": "2025-01-14"
    }
  ],
  "source": "USAspending.gov"
}

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🧠 How it works

A standby MCP server that holds a live session and answers tool calls against the official USAspending.gov v2 REST API. No data-source API key required; results are the public federal spending record, normalized into clean JSON.

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🔗 Related NexGenData Actors

• Government Contracts Search
• SAM.gov Federal Contractor Exclusions
• Regulatory Filings MCP
• Sales Intelligence MCP
• Finance & Market Data MCP

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💵 Pricing

Pay-per-event: a small fee per successful tool call plus a one-time actor-start. No subscription. See the live pricing tab for current rates. Run your automations on Apify.

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⚖️ Legal

USAspending.gov data is U.S. federal government public-record data. Use responsibly. This is not legal, financial, or procurement advice.

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❓ FAQ

Q: Contracts and grants both? Yes — set award_type to contracts or grants.

Q: Can I filter by fiscal year? Yes — pass fiscal_year (e.g. 2024).

Q: Do I need a USAspending key? No. Only your Apify token.

Q: How current is the data? It reflects USAspending.gov's live database at query time.

Q: What's a UEI? The Unique Entity Identifier that replaced the DUNS number for federal recipients.

Q: How many results per call? Up to 50; tune with max_results.

Q: Works with Claude / Cursor / Windsurf? Yes — any MCP client over streamable-HTTP.

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🛠️ Troubleshooting

• No results → broaden the keyword or remove the fiscal-year filter.
• Recipient not found → try a shorter / canonical company name.
• Upstream error → USAspending may rate-limit bursts; retry shortly.
• Auth error → confirm your Apify token in the Authorization header.
• Idle disconnect → the server closes idle sessions to save compute; reconnect.

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🏢 About NexGenData

NexGenData builds production MCP servers and data actors for AI agents across finance, legal, regulatory, IP, government, and aviation. See the full catalog on Apify.