GovCon API MCP server

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GovCon API MCP

Most SAM.gov MCP servers wrap one dataset behind six to ten tools. This is 53 tools across five federal sources, already joined on the identifiers they share, including full text extracted from inside solicitation attachments.

US federal procurement data for agents: 668K SAM.gov opportunities, 10.6M FPDS prime contract transactions, 880K SAM-registered entities, 226K FFATA subawards, 164K exclusions, 14K decided GAO protests, and ~262K GSA CALC labor rates. Cross-linked on UEI, CAGE, PIID and NAICS, so one question does not become five integrations.

Counts as of 2026-08-31, rounded. The corpus grows daily, so this file is a snapshot: current per-source totals and freshness dates are always live at /api/v1/status, no key required.

Free 14-day trial, no credit card. Get a key, then pipx install govconapi-mcp.

Why this, and not the next SAM.gov wrapper

Most federal-contracting MCP servers are thin proxies over the official SAM.gov API. Four concrete differences.

• It searches inside the documents, not just the notice. We extract and index the full text of every document attached to a notice. A corpus study on 2026-07-16 measured 506,382 documents across 209,095 opportunities, 31.4 billion characters, including 57,527 files recovered from archives nested up to five levels deep that never appear in SAM's own attachment list, and 41,764 scanned documents recovered with OCR. Those five figures are one dated measurement and belong together; the index has grown since, and the running total is on /api/v1/status. A requirement like CMMC, a clearance level, or an option year is usually in the SOW, not the notice. Most tools structurally cannot see it.
• Five sources, already joined. SAM.gov opportunities and entities, FPDS contract transactions, USAspending/FFATA subawards, SAM exclusions, SBA DSBS certifications and GSA CALC rates, resolved onto shared identifiers. A wrapper hands your agent one dataset and leaves the joins to it.
• No SAM.gov entity registration and no company UEI required. GSA documents 10 requests/day for a non-federal user without a SAM role, and 1,000/day with one. Access here is an email and a key.
• 53 tools, organised by lifecycle stage. Market research, opportunity discovery, capture and teaming, bid and negotiate, award and compliance. You should not have to know our URL structure to know which tool answers your question.

Connect

pipx install govconapi-mcp

pipx puts the binary somewhere Claude Desktop's sandbox can spawn it. On macOS, brew install pipx first. With uv, use uvx --from govconapi-mcp govconapi-mcp. Python 3.10+.

Claude Desktop (~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claudedesktopconfig.json on macOS, %APPDATA%\Claude\claudedesktopconfig.json on Windows):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "govconapi": {
      "command": "govconapi-mcp",
      "env": { "GOVCONAPI_KEY": "gca_your_key_here" }
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude. For Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Zed and custom Python agents, see the install reference.

Ask it things like

Find DoD cybersecurity solicitations posted this month over $1M.

Which active solicitations mention CMMC anywhere in their attachments?

Find RFPs requiring an active Secret clearance, even when the notice itself does not say so.

Who are the entrenched incumbents in NAICS 541512, and how competitive is that market?

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.