Govcon Contractor Signals MCP Server

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Govcon Contractor Signals is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Federal contractor M&A signals: rising contractors, growth momentum, award search.

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 96%

91 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

105 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Govcon Contractor Signals missed one check this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 10 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add govcon-contractor-signals --transport http https://ma.dropwatchhq.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://ma.dropwatchhq.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.govcon-contractor-signals]
url = "https://ma.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "govcon-contractor-signals": {
      "url": "https://ma.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "govcon-contractor-signals": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ma.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

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

awards

search_awards

Direct live search of US federal awards (USAspending.gov) by NAICS, agency, recipient, keyword, date and $ range.

contractor

contractor_signals

Given a federal contractor NAME, return its acquisition-likelihood / rising-contractor signal profile: a 0-100 pattern-based score with full reasoning, plus award-velocity, multi-year trajectory, agency/NAICS mix, biggest win, set-aside footprint, and (if public) SEC EDGAR ticker + recent corporate-event filings. Built on PUBLIC USAspending.gov + EDGAR data. Probabilistic leading-signal estimate — NOT certainty, NOT insider/MNPI, NOT investment advice.

rising

rising_contractors

Return the current ranked 'Rising Contractors / Likely M&A Targets' feed — small/mid federal contractors showing the strongest leading acquisition signals, refreshed daily.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://ma.dropwatchhq.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	57 ms	10 min ago

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Govcon Contractor Signals — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Govcon Contractor Signals do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: contractor_signals, rising_contractors, search_awards. 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 Govcon Contractor Signals 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 105 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Govcon Contractor Signals?

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 Govcon Contractor Signals need an API key?

No. Govcon Contractor Signals completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Govcon Contractor Signals?

It answers our handshake in 105 ms on average, which is faster than 91% 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.