Search federal government contract opportunities from SAM.gov via Claude
Search federal government contract opportunities from SAM.gov via Claude. Exposed over MCP by the awardopedia mcp server, that capability becomes something an assistant can invoke while it works, not something you go and do afterwards.
Free, searchable interface for U.S. federal contract award data sourced from USASpending.gov.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
Prerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this serverSetup — The Setup tool exposed by this serverYou will need one environment variable: DATABASE_URL. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
Installation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at npm on npm and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.
Among the developer tooling options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Awardopedia's toolset — Prerequisites, Setup — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by grayson-sys; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Awardopedia's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Prerequisites | The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server. |
| Setup | The Setup tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"awardopedia": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "npm"],
"env": {
"DATABASE_URL": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| DATABASE_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
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