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CedarBid MCP Server

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CedarBid is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 6 tools.

VA HVAC and plumbing contracts from USAspending: what ends soon, who holds it, typical prices.

Uptime history 24 days of history · worst day 99%
24 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
191 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 3

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 23 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

25 Oct a tool changed version
23 Oct a tool description was rewritten find_expiring_contracts
23 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for find_expiring_contracts

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check CedarBid every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add va-contracts --transport http https://cedarbid.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://cedarbid.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.va-contracts]
url = "https://cedarbid.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "va-contracts": {
      "url": "https://cedarbid.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "va-contracts": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://cedarbid.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

buying
buying_calendar
Shows how many VA HVAC and plumbing contracts were awarded, and for how many dollars, in each month of the year across all years tracked. Spending peaks in September, the last month of the federal fiscal year.
company
company_profile
Shows a company's VA HVAC and plumbing contracts since October 2018: total awards, dollars obligated, active contracts, locations served and its most recent contracts. Search by company name or by its 12-character UEI. If several companies match a name, returns the list of matches to choose from.
expiring
find_expiring_contracts
Lists recurring VA heating, cooling and plumbing service contracts (maintenance, inspection, testing) whose current period of performance ends within the chosen number of months, soonest first. Whether and when the VA solicits the work again is up to the VA; check SAM.gov. Filter by state, city, keyword (for example 'chiller', 'boiler', 'backflow') and the set-aside the contract was last awarded under. Returns the holder, dollars obligated, end date, bids received and a link to the official record.
location
location_contracts
Shows VA HVAC and plumbing contracts at one location (city and state): total awards and dollars since October 2018, the companies that won the most, and recent contracts. Use it to understand a facility before bidding.
lookup
lookup_contract
Returns the details of a VA HVAC or plumbing contract by its contract number (PIID), for example '36C25225P1123': holder, company UEI, dollars obligated, start and end dates, location, bids received, set-aside type, contracting office and official record link.
typical
typical_prices
Shows what the VA has typically paid per contract for a type of HVAC or plumbing work, over contracts started in the last four years: the middle half of awards (low and high) and the median, in dollars obligated, with the number of awards behind each figure. Nationwide, or for one state when it has at least five comparable awards. Types of work: Air handling unit, Backflow, Boiler, Building automation / controls, Chiller, Coil, Cooling tower, Ductwork, Medical gas, Plumbing, Steam and condensate, Test and balance, Water treatment, Other HVAC/plumbing.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://cedarbid.com/mcp streamable-http answering 149 ms 11 min ago

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CedarBid — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can CedarBid do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: buying_calendar, company_profile, find_expiring_contracts, location_contracts, lookup_contract, typical_prices. 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 CedarBid 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 191 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect CedarBid?
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 CedarBid need an API key?
No. CedarBid completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is CedarBid?
It answers our handshake in 191 ms on average, which is faster than 75% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.