GovInbox MCP server

• Registry namecom.getgovinbox/govinboxverified in the MCP registry

The registry name sits under getgovinbox.com. The registry only lets a publisher use that namespace after proving control of the domain through DNS or HTTP.

• Stateanswerschecked 2026-10-24
• Tools44
• Server calls itselfgovinbox-plugin
• Server version1.0.0
• Protocol version2025-06-18

On 2026-10-24 the server answered initialize and tools/list without a sign-in. First answer in 240 ms.

• Whether its tools do the product's job has not been judged yet.

Said by rules from the measurements above. The likely first call is a model's pick from the tool list; read its description before relying on it.

• INITE MCP score89 of 100answers 100 · definitions 89 · context 48 · connects 100
• Answered100% of days11 of 11 daily checks
• Median first answer232 ms
• Space in an agent's context≈ 20,535 tokensthe definitions of all its tools (45), which an agent carries on every turn
• Tool definitionsB · 89 of 100
• Typed results37 of 45 toolsdeclared outputSchema: results come typed, read once

• Parameters without a description: in 29 of 45

A program checks the server once a day: initialize and tools/list, no model. Tokens are the definitions' length at about four characters a token. The grade averages six checks of every tool's name, description, schema and annotations; it says how well the tools are described, not whether they work. The score weighs what was measured and nothing else: answering (25%), doing the product's job (25%), definitions (20%), context (10%), use (10%) and how readily a client connects (10%). A part that was not measured is left out, and a hidden instruction caps the score at 40. The state of vendors' MCP servers: method and numbers →

• search_open_notices

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Searches open federal contract notices in GovInbox's stored SAM.gov data using the supplied NAICS and optional filters. Returns published notice…

• list_awards_by_period_end

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Lists public award records in GovInbox's database whose recorded period-of-performance end dates fall within the requested lookahead window. Dates…

• get_notice_record

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Returns a source-based brief for a notice ID, including recorded constraints, deadline status, competition method, source information, and facts…

• compare_notice_record_versions

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Compares recorded notice facts with the baseline identified by a receipt previously returned by get_notice_record. The receipt must belong to the…

• list_reported_subawards

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Returns up to limit rows of reported first-tier subcontract award information from GovInbox's stored USAspending subaward data. Returns reported…

• find_likely_recompetes

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Notices flagged as likely recompetes, with the recorded incumbent contractor name and incumbent period end date where available. Flags are analytical…

• get_recompete_detail

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Ranked candidate incumbent awards for one notice, from GovInbox's recompete analysis of public award records. Candidates are analytical matches, not…

• get_recompete_calendar

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Contracts with periods of performance ending soon, ranked for business development: incumbent name, award value, end date, days to expiry, set-aside…

• search_open_grants

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Open grant opportunities from public grant sources in GovInbox's database. Returns opportunity number, title, agency, status, close date, and award…

• get_grant_record

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Full details for one grant opportunity: eligibility applicant types, funding categories, award range, dates, and summary as recorded from the public…

• search_award_history

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Historical federal prime award records from public USAspending data: who won what, for how much, from which agency. Filter by trade lane, agency, or…

• search_cancelled_contracts

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Contracts recorded as cancelled, with the savings claimed, from public cancellation reports. Filter by agency or vendor. Cancellation and savings…

• search_subawards

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Individual reported first-tier subaward records: which subcontractor worked under which prime, for how much. Filter by prime contractor name. Amounts…

• find_teaming_partners

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Prime contractors with a recorded track record of subcontracting in a NAICS lane, ranked by their small-business subaward history. For a small…

• search_cancelled_grants

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Grants recorded as cancelled, with the savings claimed, from public cancellation reports. Filter by agency or recipient. Cancellation and savings…

• search_cancelled_leases

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Federal leases recorded as cancelled, with the savings claimed, from public cancellation reports. Filter by agency or location. Cancellation and…

• search_dibbs

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Defense Logistics Agency simplified-acquisition RFQs from DIBBS, the bid board where DLA posts thousands of small-purchase solicitations (parts…

• search_doge_payments

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Individual federal grant payment disbursements (which organizations received grant funds and when) from public payment reports, including the…

• search_amtrak

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Amtrak business opportunities from Amtrak's public procurement portal, construction, non-construction services, and equipment sales that do not…

• search_mcc

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Millennium Challenge Corporation compact procurement notices, infrastructure and consulting procurements issued by partner-country MCA entities…

• search_mcc_forecast

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. MCC Partner Country Business Forecast, planned compact procurements above $300K across all active Millennium Challenge Corporation compacts…

• get_protest_history

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. GAO bid protest history for a federal solicitation number. Returns every published GAO protest decision tied to the solicitation, each protest's…

• search_sole_source

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Justification & Approval (J&A) notices from SAM.gov, the documents agencies publish to justify non-competitive awards. Under FAR 6.305, most J&As…

• search_denali

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Denali Commission grant opportunities for rural Alaska infrastructure, energy, transportation, health facilities, sanitation, and housing. Eligible…

• search_ustda

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. US Trade and Development Agency business opportunities, feasibility studies, pilot projects, and technical assistance in developing countries. USTDA…

• search_fdic

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation solicitations posted to SAM.gov under CORHQ numbers. FDIC buys mostly IT infrastructure, application services…

• search_nbrc_grants

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) grant programs and award announcements from nbrc.gov, the Catalyst, Forest Economy, and Timber for Transit…

• search_dra_grants

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Delta Regional Authority (DRA) grant funding cycles and announced awards, from DRA's own public site (dra.gov), SEDAP, the Community Infrastructure…

• search_grants_gov

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Grant opportunities from the public Grants.gov feed, posted and forecasted federal grant postings, refreshed from the keyless Grants.gov API. Filter…

• get_far_clause

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Stored excerpt of a Federal Acquisition Regulation section by number (e.g. 52.212-4, 52.219-8), from the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations…

• search_federal_register

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Procurement-relevant Federal Register documents: FAR rulemaking, acquisition policy notices, and Procurement List (AbilityOne) actions. Filter by…

• check_notice_filters

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Checks one federal notice against criteria YOU write. You supply the rules, for example 'Set-aside is SDVOSB' or 'Work is in Texas'; the tool marks…

• search_ota_awards

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Department of Defense Other Transaction Authority (OTA) awards, prototype, research, and production agreements that bypass the FAR and never appear…

• search_opportunities

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Search open federal contract opportunities from SAM.gov notices, presented as cards. Uses the same stored-notice engine as search_open_notices - one…

• show_govinbox

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Open the free visual GovInbox preview before searching, including when a search allowance is exhausted. No account is required to see this preview…

• signin

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Start the GovInbox sign-in flow to connect your free GovInbox account. Signed-in users get 20 searches per month instead of the guest limit. This…

• get_record

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Get bounded typed details of a contract notice or grant by source ID. Grants require the full account connection. Specify record_type when IDs…

• analyze_market

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Market intelligence: award history, subawards, OTA awards, and agency spending patterns. Shows who won what, for how much. Present as information…

• check_risk

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Risk signals: protest history, cancellation records, and opportunity scoring. Shows what happened before, not what will happen. Present as…

• track_recompete

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Find contracts nearing end of performance and likely recompete candidates. Dates are estimates from recorded periods of performance. Not a prediction…

• find_partners

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Find firms with a track record of teaming in a trade lane, based on historical subaward and prime-award activity. These are firms that might be worth…

• research

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. For source='DOE eXCHANGE', searches recorded official DOE laboratory-call documents and explicitly ingested lab calls. Returns separate lab-call…

• get_brief

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. The GovInbox daily brief: new opportunities, expiring notices, awards, grants, and regulatory changes. One or two lines per item, designed for…

• manage_watchlist

  Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Watch or pass on a contract or grant opportunity. Watching saves it to your list. Passing records why, so patterns emerge over time. Changes require…