GovContract Radar MCP Server

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GovContract Radar is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 5 tools. Last commit 8 Oct 2026.

US federal contracts: solicitations, set-asides, deadlines, awards, contractor profiles. Free.

Uptime history 12 days of history · worst day 0%

12 days agonow

0.0%

Uptime 24h

0 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

19633 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 8 Oct 2026

What changed 4

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 5 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

7 Oct 2 tools appeared gov.awards, gov.company

7 Oct a tool changed version

5 Oct a tool description was rewritten gov.search

GovContract Radar does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 10.9% 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 11 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add gov-contract-radar --transport http https://gov.pixharvest.com/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gov-contract-radar": {
      "url": "https://gov.pixharvest.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.gov-contract-radar]
url = "https://gov.pixharvest.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gov-contract-radar": {
      "url": "https://gov.pixharvest.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gov-contract-radar": {
      "url": "https://gov.pixharvest.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

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

gov

gov.awards

Who actually won recent federal contracts in an industry: recent award records (recipient, amount, agency, start/end date, description, award ID) filtered by NAICS code, from public USAspending data. Use this to see the incumbents in a market, benchmark competitor wins, or research who holds contracts in a NAICS. Complements gov.search (open opportunities) with awarded contracts.

gov.company

Federal contractor profile for a company: recent award count, total award amount, primary buyer agency, last signed date and sample award IDs, from public USAspending data. Search by full or partial company name (e.g. 'Cellentia', 'Lockheed'). Use this for competitor intelligence - who wins in your market and how much.

gov.digest

Daily briefing for one NAICS code: a compact, chronological list of the most recently posted opportunities (title, agency, type, deadline, posting time) for routine monitoring of your market. Unlike gov.search, it takes only a NAICS code and returns a short digest - no keyword/type filters, no full descriptions. Use this as the routine morning check on what is new for your industry.

gov.near_expiry

Deadline-driven urgency triage: opportunities that close within N days, sorted by urgency (closest deadline first), each with daysLeft until close. Unlike gov.search or gov.digest, this ignores keywords and freshness - it is purely a time-window scan for last-minute bidding, bid deadline reminders and pipeline management.

gov.search

Explore and answer questions about federal contract opportunities. Combine any filters - NAICS code, free-text keyword, set-aside type, posting window - and get full fields (title, agency, type, NAICS, set-aside, deadline, official posting date (postedDate) plus exact time (postedAt) where available, SAM.gov link). Use this when you need to research a specific market, match a capability, or compare opportunities. Data synced hourly via GovConAPI (latency ≤60 min); SAM fallback every 6h.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://gov.pixharvest.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	19633 ms	11 min ago

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GovContract Radar — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can GovContract Radar do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: gov.awards, gov.company, gov.digest, gov.near_expiry, gov.search. 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 GovContract Radar 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 19633 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists GovContract Radar 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 GovContract Radar?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does GovContract Radar need an API key?

No. GovContract Radar completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

Is GovContract Radar open source?

We cannot say either way: written in HTML and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.