AwardCast Federal Contracts is answering right now. Last checked 4 min ago. It exposes 8 tools.
US federal contracting data: open solicitations, buying agencies, contractors, price history.
Uptime history
78 days of history · worst day 92%
78 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
8
Tools
read from the server
913 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check AwardCast Federal Contracts every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
Connect this server
Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 4 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add federal-contracts --transport http https://awardcast.ai/mcpSettings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://awardcast.ai/mcp~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.federal-contracts]
url = "https://awardcast.ai/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"federal-contracts": {
"url": "https://awardcast.ai/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"servers": {
"federal-contracts": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://awardcast.ai/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 8
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
agency
agency_profile
Buying profile of a US federal agency: how many contracts it awards, how much it obligates, what share is competed, the typical price per NAICS category, its largest contractors, and which of its contracts expire soon. Call this when the user asks how an agency buys, what it pays, or who already sells to it.
contractor
contractor_profile
Federal award history of a contractor: how many contracts it has won, total obligated, median win value, which agencies it sells to, its recent awards, and its set-aside status (small business, 8(a), HUBZone, WOSB, SDVOSB). Call this when the user asks about a competitor, about the incumbent on a contract, or who has already won in a given market.
fetch
fetch
Open the full record behind an id returned by search: an agency profile with price by category and its top winners, a contractor's award history, or a solicitation with its scope and deadline. Call this whenever you need the detail behind a search result, and always before citing a number.
open
open_solicitations
US federal solicitations OPEN right now, from SAM.gov, each with the buying agency, the NAICS code and the place of performance. Call this when the user asks what is open, hunts for opportunities in a sector or agency, or wants to know what they can bid on. Does not return a price forecast: for that, point the user to https://awardcast.ai/pricing.
price
price_band
Historical closing-price range for an agency and NAICS category pair: the 10th percentile, median and 90th percentile of contracts already awarded, plus the average number of competing offers. Call this when the user asks what a contract in this market usually goes for, or wants a benchmark before pricing a bid. This is aggregated HISTORY, not a forecast: the forecast for a specific solicitation is paid, at https://awardcast.ai/pricing.
search
search
Search AwardCast's US federal contracting record: buying agencies, federal contractors, and solicitations open right now. Call this first for any question about who buys, who sells, or what is open in US federal procurement. Returns results with an id and a citable URL; pass the id to the fetch tool to open the full record.
track
track_record
Accuracy scorecard for AwardCast's forecasts, scored against the real contract value once FPDS publishes it. Call this when the user asks whether the forecasts are reliable, what the margin of error is, or wants evidence before trusting a number. Returns coverage and median error by value band, including where the model is weakest.
upcoming
upcoming_recompetes
US federal contracts nearing expiry that are likely to be recompeted, i.e. opportunities BEFORE they become a published solicitation. Each carries the incumbent and the current contract value. Call this when the user plans pipeline, asks what is coming, or wants to position ahead of competitors. Distinct from open_solicitations, which is already open for bids today.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://awardcast.ai/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 840 ms | 4 min ago |
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AwardCast Federal Contracts — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can AwardCast Federal Contracts do?
It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: agency_profile, contractor_profile, fetch, open_solicitations, price_band, search and 2 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is AwardCast Federal Contracts working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 913 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect AwardCast Federal Contracts?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does AwardCast Federal Contracts need an API key?
No. AwardCast Federal Contracts completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 8 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is AwardCast Federal Contracts?
It answers our handshake in 913 ms on average, which is faster than 8% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.