# BidCatch (remote · bidcatch.co)

SAM.gov, USAspending & state-portal bids, award history, expiring contracts, forecasts, protests

- Trust score: 71/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `bidcatch.co`: 71/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/co-bidcatch-bidcatch/bidcatch.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/co-bidcatch-bidcatch/bidcatch)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://bidcatch.co/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.3`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 8 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 64/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1545 tokens (~193/item across 8 items; 8 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 47/100
  - Stability observed for 14 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 97/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 92% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 8 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 9 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the BidCatch MCP server?

BidCatch is a hosted endpoint at https://bidcatch.co/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http co-bidcatch-bidcatch 'https://bidcatch.co/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "co-bidcatch-bidcatch": {
      "url": "https://bidcatch.co/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "co-bidcatch-bidcatch": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://bidcatch.co/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.co-bidcatch-bidcatch]
url = "https://bidcatch.co/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "co-bidcatch-bidcatch": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://bidcatch.co/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add co-bidcatch-bidcatch --url 'https://bidcatch.co/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  co-bidcatch-bidcatch:
    url: "https://bidcatch.co/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "co-bidcatch-bidcatch": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://bidcatch.co/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add co-bidcatch-bidcatch -t streamable-http -u 'https://bidcatch.co/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "co-bidcatch-bidcatch": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://bidcatch.co/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-04 (score 71, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 40 to 43. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 12 days of observed history at the previous scan, 13 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-02 (score 70, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 33 to 37. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 10 days of observed history at the previous scan, 11 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-31 (score 69, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 27 to 30. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 8 days of observed history at the previous scan, 9 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-29 (score 68, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-27 (score 67, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-25 (score 66, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-23 (score 65, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-22 (score 64)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (8)

### `search_bids` (~110 tokens)

Search government bid opportunities (open and past) by keyword, state, and buyer level. Results are relevance-ranked; keyword matches in the title outrank passing mentions in the description.

Input parameters:

- `open_only` (boolean): true = only bids whose deadline has not passed
- `query` (string, required): Keywords, e.g. 'fiber optic' or 'cyber'
- `state` (string): Two-letter US state code, e.g. TX
- `tier` (string): Level of government buyer

### `get_award_history` (~89 tokens)

Search federal contract award history — who won what, for how much, and when. Use it to size up incumbents, price work, or find buyers. Requires a BidCatch intel key.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string, required): Keywords matched against description, recipient, and agency
- `sort` (string)
- `state` (string): Two-letter US state code, e.g. TX

### `get_recompete_radar` (~96 tokens)

List federal contracts nearing expiration — each one a competition about to reopen. Filter by keyword, NAICS code, or state. Requires a BidCatch intel key.

Input parameters:

- `naics` (string): NAICS industry code, e.g. 541512
- `query` (string): Keywords matched against description, recipient, and agency
- `state` (string): Two-letter US state code, e.g. TX

### `get_agency_forecast` (~76 tokens)

List an agency's published procurement forecast — planned contract actions with estimated values and timelines, in the agency's own words. Planning-grade data; entries can be revised or cancelled. Requires a BidCatch intel key.

Input parameters:

- `agency` (string, required): Agency name or distinctive fragment, e.g. 'Interior' or 'Veterans'

### `get_protest_record` (~57 tokens)

Search Government Accountability Office (GAO) bid protest decisions — who challenged an award, and whether the referee sustained or denied it. Requires a BidCatch intel key.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string, required): Keywords matched against agency and case matter

### `check_exclusions` (~145 tokens)

Check SAM.gov's exclusion (debarment) list for a company or person — entities the government has barred from receiving federal contracts or subcontracts. Run this before teaming with or subcontracting to anyone: one excluded partner can poison a bid. Match by exact company name or UEI; a state filter disambiguates common names. Records come from SAM.gov's published exclusions extract, refreshed weekly.

Input parameters:

- `name` (string): Company or person name, e.g. 'Acme Paving LLC'
- `state` (string): Two-letter US state code, e.g. TX
- `uei` (string): SAM.gov Unique Entity ID — the strongest match key

### `find_teaming_partners` (~156 tokens)

Find who a company teams with on federal contracts — the primes it subcontracts for and the subcontractors under it. Built from prime-reported subcontract records (USAspending/FSRS): real reported relationships, not guesses. Use it before a recompete to map an incumbent's bench, or to find primes a subcontractor already works with. Requires a BidCatch intel key.

Input parameters:

- `company` (string): Company name, e.g. 'Booz Allen Hamilton' — resolved to the strongest match
- `role` (string): prime = only partners they sub FOR; sub = only subs UNDER them; omit for both
- `uei` (string): SAM.gov Unique Entity ID — the strongest match key

### `search_awards` (~175 tokens)

Filter federal contract awards by exact fields — recipient, awarding agency, NAICS code, state — instead of keyword search. Includes a single-bid filter for awards that drew exactly one offer. Use this when you know the slice you want; use get_award_history for topic/keyword search. Requires a BidCatch intel key.

Input parameters:

- `agency` (string): Awarding agency (partial match), e.g. 'Veterans Affairs'
- `naics` (string): NAICS code, e.g. 541512
- `one_bid_only` (boolean): true = only awards that received exactly one offer
- `recipient` (string): Recipient name (partial match), e.g. 'Lockheed'
- `sort` (string)
- `state` (string): Two-letter US state code, e.g. TX

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/co-bidcatch-bidcatch/bidcatch#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 71
- 2026-11-04: 71
- 2026-11-03: 70
- 2026-11-02: 70
- 2026-11-01: 69
- 2026-10-31: 69
- 2026-10-30: 68
- 2026-10-29: 68
- 2026-10-28: 67
- 2026-10-27: 67
- 2026-10-26: 66
- 2026-10-25: 66
- 2026-10-24: 65
- 2026-10-23: 65
- 2026-10-22: 64

## Common questions

### What is the BidCatch MCP server?

BidCatch is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as co.bidcatch/bidcatch. SAM.gov, USAspending & state-portal bids, award history, expiring contracts, forecasts, protests. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://bidcatch.co/mcp).

### Is the BidCatch MCP server safe to use?

BidCatch scores 71 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the BidCatch MCP server expose?

BidCatch exposes 8 tools: search_bids, get_award_history, get_recompete_radar, get_agency_forecast, get_protest_record, and 3 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 904 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the BidCatch MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to BidCatch without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the BidCatch MCP server still maintained?

BidCatch is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://bidcatch.co/mcp
- Website: https://bidcatch.co/partners
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/co-bidcatch-bidcatch/bidcatch.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/co-bidcatch-bidcatch/bidcatch.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/co-bidcatch-bidcatch/bidcatch