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Federal Contracts & Grants MCP Server

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Federal Contracts & Grants is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

US federal contracts, grants, and spending awards

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 0%
91 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
542 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Federal Contracts & Grants 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 14 min ago.

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

Available tools 4

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
Search historical US federal contract award data for price intelligence. Find out what similar contracts paid and who won them.
contracts
search_contracts
Search active US federal contract opportunities from SAM.gov. Useful for finding RFPs, solicitations, and government procurement opportunities.
grants
search_grants
Search active US federal grant opportunities from Grants.gov. Covers all federal agencies and funding types.
spending
search_spending
Search federal award spending data from USAspending.gov. Find awards by keyword, look up a company total federal contracts, or see agency spending breakdown.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://contracts.memoryapi.org/mcp streamable-http answering 657 ms 14 min ago

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Federal Contracts & Grants — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Federal Contracts & Grants do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: search_awards, search_contracts, search_grants, search_spending. 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 Federal Contracts & Grants 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 542 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Federal Contracts & Grants?
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 Federal Contracts & Grants need an API key?
No. Federal Contracts & Grants completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Federal Contracts & Grants?
It answers our handshake in 542 ms on average, which is faster than 22% 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.