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US federal spending, contracts, SAM.gov notices, FAR clauses and SBIR awards, in plain English.
Remote server: your requests and data go to api.spendquery.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http spendquery https://api.spendquery.com/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
get_catalog — What SpendQuery can answer: data coverage, metrics, dimensions (with examples and whether they apply to contracts or assistance), analyses, run_plan — Run a QueryPlan (see get_catalog.plan_schema). Returns status (ok | clarify | unsupported | error), a one-paragraph answer, columns, rows (msearch_codes — Look up codes and official names. kind: agency | bureau | state | county | naics | psc | program. Matches names (substring, case-insensitivesearch_recipients — Find award recipients (companies, universities, governments) by name or UEI. Returns each registration's UEI, parent, listed-company ticker browse_codes — Browse what the government buys, with contract spend. kind: psc (products and services) | naics (industries). No group and no query -> the gget_notice — One SAM.gov contract notice as SpendQuery's brief sees it, no AI: the decision card (what the buyer needs, blockers, unknowns, a next step; size_standard — SBA small business size standards (13 CFR 121.201, the eCFR table): a NAICS code, a code prefix (5415) or industry words -> receipts ($ millnaics_finder — Describe the work in plain words -> the NAICS codes buyers actually use for it (codes on SAM.gov notices whose titles have the words and on vehicle_match — For 6-digit NAICS codes (and an optional agency): the shared contract vehicles (GWACs, multiple-award IDIQs, GSA Schedule, BPAs) carrying lasearch_far — Search the FAR and the DFARS (48 CFR chapters 1 and 2, as codified in the eCFR): sections whose title or text has every word, or a section nget_far_section — One FAR or DFARS section's full text (paragraphs), its part and subpart, the sections it refers to and the ones referring to it, and Federalsearch_local_bids — State, county and city government bids and contracts (not federal awards), from the governments that publish them as open data: Los Angeles find_bid_portals — Where to bid in a place: the state's, county's or city's own bid / procurement portal, the platform it runs on (Bonfire, OpenGov, DemandStarsbir_awards — SBIR and STTR awards since 1983 from SBA's SBIR.gov records, and who received them: totals, awards by year (Phase I / II), by agency, the cogrant_opportunities — Federal grant opportunities on Grants.gov: open ones soonest closing first (or forecast), by words and by who may apply, each with its numbeprimes_and_subcontractors — Who does a kind of work, for the last complete fiscal year: the primes (with their certifications), the subcontractors primes reported payinsearch_notices — Open SAM.gov contract notices still taking responses, in one call (no QueryPlan): by words (also matched by meaning), NAICS, place, set-asidcompany_profile — One company in one call: federal money by year (all its registrations rolled up), top agencies, industries, places and largest awards, SAM.grecompetes — The recompete pipeline: contracts ending in the next months with the incumbent, value, how they were bought (offers received, set-aside, vehopportunity_brief — One notice (or expiring contract) as its SpendQuery brief, no AI: the notice's facts and deadline, the contract it likely follows and how sucompetitor_watch — What is new with one company (a competitor, a teaming partner, a prime), from the records, no AI: its new awards (base awards to it or a subaward_prices — For pricing a bid: what contracts in an industry (and state) are typically worth over the last three complete fiscal years (percentiles of aNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.