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FedTally — US Federal Contract Intelligence

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

Checks passed
12 / 22

2 failed · 8 not measured

Median response
470 ms

Median of successful probes over 7 days

30-day uptime
Not measured

Share of countable probes over 30 days, including daily rollups. Auth challenges are excluded.

Discovered tools
3

Tool definitions returned by this server

Independent monitoring

Health & checks

Status history

Responded

The server completed its last measured handshake. This is an observation, not a guarantee.

Last checked
Check summary by test group
Test areaPassedFailedUnmeasured
ConnectionCan a client connect and discover tools?
500
Reliability & speedDoes it respond consistently and quickly?
004
Access & authenticationWhat is required to use this server?
102
Tool qualityAre the tool definitions usable by an agent?
400
Publisher identityCan the publisher be traced to its source?
222

Unmeasured means there is not enough evidence to decide. How these checks work

Inspect individual checks 22 recorded

Core

  • Pass
    Reachable

    Latest probe returned HTTP 200 in 470 ms.

  • Pass
    Valid handshake

    protocolVersion 2025-11-25, serverInfo.name fedtally.

  • Pass
    Lists tools

    tools/list returned 3 tools.

  • Pass
    Current protocol

    Negotiated 2025-11-25. The bar is 2025-06-18 or newer.

  • Pass
    HTTPS

    The endpoint URL is https.

Performance

  • Not measured
    Fast (p50)

    Median latency 470 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 1000 ms. Need at least 5 samples.

  • Not measured
    Consistent (p95)

    95th percentile 470 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 3000 ms. Need at least 20 samples.

  • Not measured
    Reliable (uptime)

    1 of 1 attempts returned a tool list in 30 days (100%). The bar is 99%. Need at least 30 samples.

  • Not measured
    Stable tool list

    Fewer than two successful probes in 30 days, so tool-list stability is not measured.

Access

  • Pass
    Open access

    tools/list succeeded with no credential, and the record declares none.

  • Not measured
    Standard auth

    Auth is not required, so the OAuth metadata check does not apply.

  • Not measured
    Free tier cited

    No publisher quote has been checked.

Tools

  • Pass
    Tools described

    Every tool description is at least 20 characters.

  • Pass
    Valid input schemas

    Every inputSchema is a JSON Schema object.

  • Pass
    Parameters documented

    6 of 6 parameters have a description (100%). The bar is 80%.

  • Pass
    Safety hints

    Every tool sets readOnlyHint or destructiveHint.

Publisher

  • Pass
    Verified namespace

    Listed in the Official MCP Registry.

  • Not measured
    Website matches publisher

    This namespace is not a reverse domain, so the website comparison does not apply.

  • Fail
    Source repo linked

    No repository URL is on file.

  • Fail
    Repo owner matches

    The GitHub repository owner does not match the namespace login.

  • Pass
    Recently updated

    Updated 2026-08-20T10:12:04.478467Z, within 180 days.

  • Not measured
    Open-source licence

    No GitHub repository to ask about a licence.

Start using FedTally — US Federal Contract Intelligence

Connect to this server

Choose your client, copy the configuration, then enable the server in your client’s MCP settings.

Run this command in your terminal, then restart Claude Code.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http fedtally-us-federal-contract-intelligence https://fedtally.com/api/mcp

Capabilities

Tools 3

get_agency_spend

Where 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.

Discovered
get_expiring_contracts

Federal 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.

Discovered
search_awards_by_company

Top 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.

Discovered

Recent measurements

Probe history

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Latest stored probes. Raw probe rows are kept for 14 days.
CheckedResultResponseTools
Connected470 ms3