FedTally — US Federal Contract Intelligence

US federal contract recompetes with the incumbent named, awards by company, agency spend.

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What it can do

    What data it sees

    Do you need an account

    No: the server works without sign-in

    US federal contract recompetes with the incumbent named, awards by company, agency spend.

    How to connect

    How to connect FedTally — US Federal Contract Intelligence to Claude

    The server address to paste into Claude settings:

    https://fedtally.com/api/mcp

    1. Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
    2. Go to Settings → Connectors.
    3. Click Add custom connector.
    4. Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
    5. In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.

    Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.

    Authorization

    After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.

    How to connect FedTally — US Federal Contract Intelligence to ChatGPT

    The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:

    https://fedtally.com/api/mcp

    1. Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
    2. Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
    3. Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
    4. Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
    5. Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
    6. In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.

    OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.

    Authorization

    On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.

    How to connect FedTally — US Federal Contract Intelligence to Cursor

    The server address to paste into Cursor settings:

    https://fedtally.com/api/mcp

    Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.

    Manually:

    1. In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
    2. Paste the JSON copied below into ~/.cursor/mcp.json (per project: .cursor/mcp.json in the repo root).
    3. Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.

    Authorization

    If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.

    Server tool list (3)

    Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.

    search_awards_by_companyTop US federal prime contract awards won by a company, largest award amount first. Use it to size a contractor's federal business, see which agencies buy from it, or pull its biggest named contracts. Matching is full-text on the recipient name, so pass the company's common or legal name ("Booz Allen", "Lockheed Martin") rather than a ticker or internal abbreviation; a name that is too specific returns nothing. Returns up to 25 awards per page with award ID, recipient, awarding agency, amount, period of performance, NAICS code, and description; page through with the page argument while hasNext is true. Source: USAspending.gov prime contract awards (public domain, no login). Civilian agency awards are roughly 4 days fresh; Department of Defense awards are withheld about 90 days, so recent defense activity looks sparser than it is. Amounts are obligated dollars in USD.
    get_agency_spendWhere one federal agency's contract dollars went in a fiscal year: its top vendors and its top NAICS industries, both ranked by obligated amount. Use it to answer who sells to an agency and what that agency buys. The agency argument must resolve to a single toptier agency — use the full name ("Department of Veterans Affairs") or the official abbreviation ("VA"); an ambiguous fragment matching several agencies returns no match rather than a guess. Fiscal years run 1 October to 30 September and are named for the ending calendar year, so FY2026 starts 2025-10-01; omit fiscalYear for the current one. Source: USAspending.gov prime contract awards (public domain, no login). Civilian agency awards are roughly 4 days fresh; Department of Defense awards are withheld about 90 days, so recent defense activity looks sparser than it is. Amounts are obligated dollars in USD.
    get_expiring_contractsFederal contracts whose period of performance ends inside a chosen window for one NAICS industry — the recompete pipeline, useful for finding work about to be rebid and identifying the incumbent to displace. Rows come back soonest expiry first with the end date, days remaining, contract PIID and parent IDV, incumbent vendor name and UEI, contracting department, obligated dollars, total contract value including options, place of performance, and description. Two fields matter most to small contractors: setAside, the socioeconomic set-aside the work was competed under (SDVOSBC service-disabled veteran-owned, WOSB women-owned, 8AN 8(a) sole source, SBA total small business, HZC HUBZone), which is null when the work was competed full and open; and isSmallBusiness, the contracting officer's size determination for the incumbent — together they show whether a small firm is eligible to bid and whether the incumbent is a small business or a large one. Rows are served from nightly SAM.gov snapshots. Coverage is partial and rotating: the sync refreshes the stalest few of the 20 seeded industries each night, so only some are readable at any moment and the set grows over a few nights. The syncedAt field gives the timestamp of the sync that produced the rows, and an industry with no snapshot yet returns a short notice naming the codes that are currently synced, instead of data. Source: SAM.gov Contract Awards v1, public domain US Government data. Vendor street addresses are never returned.