GovBid Global API — MCP Server

A remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives AI agents direct, structured access to U.S. federal contract opportunities sourced from SAM.gov (System for Award Management), the official U.S. government procurement portal.

This server exposes the GovBid Global API data through MCP tools so that any MCP-compatible AI agent (Claude, other LLM agents, etc.) can search, filter, and retrieve federal bid/opportunity data autonomously.

MCP Endpoint: https://govbid-mcp-server.gaikotsuimageprocessing.workers.dev/mcp
Data source: SAM.gov Opportunities API (U.S. Government, Public Domain)
Update frequency: Daily, automated via GitHub Actions
License: MIT

What this server does

GovBid Global API MCP Server acts as a bridge between AI agents and live U.S. federal procurement data. Instead of scraping or manually querying SAM.gov, an AI agent can call this server's tools to:

Discover the API's metadata and licensing terms
Search recent federal contract opportunities by department, date range, and result limit
Retrieve a direct link to the official SAM.gov page for a specific opportunity

Available MCP Tools

Tool	Auth required	Description
`get_api_info`	No	Returns metadata about the API: name, version, description, license, and the `llms.txt` URL.
`search_opportunities`	Yes (`api_key`)	Searches federal contract opportunities. Supports filtering by `department`, `days` (lookback window), and `limit` (result count).
`get_opportunity_detail`	No	Returns the official SAM.gov source URL for a specific opportunity by ID.

How to connect

Cloudflare AI Playground

Go to Cloudflare AI Playground
Select MCP Servers → Add
Enter the endpoint: https://govbid-mcp-server.gaikotsuimageprocessing.workers.dev/mcp

Generic MCP client configuration

config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "govbid-global-api": {
      "url": "https://govbid-mcp-server.gaikotsuimageprocessing.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Data & Licensing

Underlying data originates from SAM.gov, operated by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), and is in the public domain.
This project (the server code) is licensed under the MIT License — see LICENSE.
This is an independent, unofficial project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by SAM.gov or the U.S. Government.

Related project

govbid-mvp — the underlying data API (Cloudflare Worker + D1) that this MCP server wraps.

About

Built with the Cloudflare Workers remote-mcp-authless template, backed by Cloudflare D1 for data storage and GitHub Actions for daily automated ingestion from SAM.gov.