cliwant/mcp-sam-gov

**$4 trillion of public federal data, one npm install away.**
The most comprehensive **keyless-first** MCP server for US federal **and state/local (SLED)** contracting + spending + regulation + partner vetting. **153 tools across 54 data sources** — keyless-first: only 4 sources (Census business-patterns, FRED, BEA, and DOL's data endpoint) need a free key; the other 50 need none. Works today, in any AI agent.
**Independent project** — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by SAM.gov, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), or any government agency.
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See it in action
**No API key, registration or signup for 148 of the 153 tools.** Just plug it in and ask.
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Why this exists
| Status quo | With this MCP |
|---|---|
| GovWin: $30K-$100K/yr per seat | Free, MIT license |
| API key registration → wait 24h → quota tier shopping | npm install → working in 60s |
| 5+ separate vendor APIs / scrapers | 1 unified surface, 153 tools across 54 sources |
| LLMs hallucinate NAICS codes / agency names | Anti-hallucination autocomplete guards built-in |
| Brittle scraping breaks weekly | Daily live smoke test (badge above) |
| Procurement officer → IT ticket → 3-week wait | Claude Desktop double-click install |
The federal data this wraps is **public domain**. There is no good reason it should cost a five-figure subscription to query.
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What this gives Claude (and other AI agents)
| Domain | What you can ask | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| 🔍 **Opportunities & solicitations** | "Find SAM.gov solicitations under NAICS 541512 closing this month" — read the SOW, POCs, attachments | SAM.gov, Grants.gov |
| 💰 **Spending, awards & competition** | "Show me Booz Allen wins at VA last fiscal year; top 10 PSC categories at DoD" | USAspending, FPDS, GAO |
| 🕵️ **Entity & partner vetting** | "Screen this firm: OFAC sanctions, SAM exclusions, single-audit findings, bank health, EPA compliance + toxics-release" | OFAC, SAM, FAC, FDIC, EPA ECHO, EPA Envirofacts |
| 🛒 **Product safety & recalls** | "Any FDA/NHTSA/CPSC recalls or enforcement against this supplier's products?" | openFDA, NHTSA, CPSC |
| ⚖️ **Litigation & courts** | "Any Court of Federal Claims bid protests or Federal Circuit opinions involving this contractor?" | CourtListener (Free Law Project) |
| 🏢 **Nonprofit vendors** | "Pull this nonprofit's IRS-990 financials before we subcontract to it" | IRS 990 (via ProPublica) |
| 🏥 **Healthcare providers & facilities** | "Medicare utilization & payments for this provider; hospital quality ratings; is this provider on the revocation list?" | CMS (data.cms.gov) |
| 📈 **Financial disclosure (SEC)** | "Pull this public company's revenue trend and latest 10-K filings" | SEC EDGAR |
| ⚖️ **Regulatory & legislative** | "What VA cybersecurity rules were published this quarter? Any open Regulations.gov dockets?" | Federal Register, Regulations.gov, eCFR, FAR/DFARS, Congress.gov, GovInfo |
| 💲 **Pricing, labor & fiscal** | "GSA CALC labor-rate band for a systems analyst; SCA wage determination for this county; CPI escalation; per-diem cap for a trip; regional GDP by industry; DOL wage-hour enforcement history" | GSA CALC, SAM WDs, BLS, US Census CBP, FRED, BEA, US Treasury, GSA per-diem, US DOL |
| 🏛 **Lobbying & influence** | "Who lobbies the VA on cybersecurity, and how much do they spend?" | US Senate LDA |
| 🏥 **Health & research funding** | "NIH/NSF grants on this topic; recruiting clinical trials; industry payments to this physician" | NIH RePORTER, NSF, ClinicalTrials.gov, CMS Open Payments, NPPES |
| 🛡 **Cyber compliance** | "Is this CVE on the CISA KEV must-patch list?" | NVD, CISA KEV |
| 🌐 **Trade, geo & disaster** | "HTS tariff for this product; Census tract for this address; FEMA declarations in this state" | USITC HTS, US Census, FEMA, Socrata, CKAN |
| 🏙 **State/local procurement bids (SLED)** | "What's open on this city's/county's procurement portal right now? Their checkbook, awarded contracts, vendor payments; state DOT bid/award registers" | OpenGov Procurement (525+ govs), Bonfire, ArcGIS (feature + Hub), Socrata (54 hosts), one Tableau Server Guest view (Montana), one Socrata Open Expenditures checkbook (South Dakota) |
| 🎓 **Grants & datasets** | "Cybersecurity grants posted in the last 30 days; discover federal open datasets" | Grants.gov, data.gov |
**153 tools across 54 data sources — keyless-first: only 4 sources (Census business-patterns, FRED, BEA, and DOL's data endpoint) need a free key; the other 50 need none.** (An earlier 52-tool build measured roughly p50 ~0.25s / p95 ~0.8s against production federal APIs; latency varies by source and upstream load — treat it as fast, not a benchmarked guarantee.)