BidCatch MCP Server

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BidCatch is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 8 tools.

Live US government bids, awards, expiring contracts, agency forecasts, and protest rulings.

Uptime history 21 days of history · worst day 0%

21 days agonow

0.0%

Uptime 24h

0 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

105 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 25 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

25 Oct 2 tools appeared find_teaming_partners, search_awards

BidCatch does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not 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 2 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add bidcatch --transport http https://bidcatch.co/mcp

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

https://bidcatch.co/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.bidcatch]
url = "https://bidcatch.co/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bidcatch": {
      "url": "https://bidcatch.co/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "bidcatch": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://bidcatch.co/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

get_agency_forecast

List an agency's published procurement forecast — planned contract actions with estimated values and timelines, in the agency's own words. Planning-grade data; entries can be revised or cancelled. Requires a BidCatch intel key.

award

get_award_history

Search federal contract award history — who won what, for how much, and when. Use it to size up incumbents, price work, or find buyers. Requires a BidCatch intel key.

awards

search_awards

Filter federal contract awards by exact fields — recipient, awarding agency, NAICS code, state — instead of keyword search. Includes a single-bid filter for awards that drew exactly one offer. Use this when you know the slice you want; use get_award_history for topic/keyword search. Requires a BidCatch intel key.

bids

search_bids

Search government bid opportunities (open and past) by keyword, state, and buyer level. Results are relevance-ranked; keyword matches in the title outrank passing mentions in the description.

exclusions

check_exclusions

Check SAM.gov's exclusion (debarment) list for a company or person — entities the government has barred from receiving federal contracts or subcontracts. Run this before teaming with or subcontracting to anyone: one excluded partner can poison a bid. Match by exact company name or UEI; a state filter disambiguates common names. Records come from SAM.gov's published exclusions extract, refreshed weekly.

protest

get_protest_record

Search Government Accountability Office (GAO) bid protest decisions — who challenged an award, and whether the referee sustained or denied it. Requires a BidCatch intel key.

recompete

get_recompete_radar

List federal contracts nearing expiration — each one a competition about to reopen. Filter by keyword, NAICS code, or state. Requires a BidCatch intel key.

teaming

find_teaming_partners

Find who a company teams with on federal contracts — the primes it subcontracts for and the subcontractors under it. Built from prime-reported subcontract records (USAspending/FSRS): real reported relationships, not guesses. Use it before a recompete to map an incumbent's bench, or to find primes a subcontractor already works with. Requires a BidCatch intel key.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://bidcatch.co/mcp	streamable-http	answering	105 ms	2 min ago

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BidCatch — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can BidCatch do?

It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_exclusions, find_teaming_partners, get_agency_forecast, get_award_history, get_protest_record, get_recompete_radar 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 BidCatch working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 92 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 105 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists BidCatch as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect BidCatch?

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 BidCatch need an API key?

No. BidCatch 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.