# AwardTape (remote · awardtape.com)

Search DoD and DHS prime contract awards since FY2024, company profiles and daily contract releases.

- Trust score: 67/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `awardtape.com`: 67/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-awardtape-mcp/api-agent-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-awardtape-mcp/api-agent-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://awardtape.com/api/agent/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## 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 27 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 2982 tokens (~110/item across 27 items; 27 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 37/100
  - Stability observed for 11 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 78/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 35% 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 27 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 27 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

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

AwardTape is a hosted endpoint at https://awardtape.com/api/agent/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 com-awardtape-mcp 'https://awardtape.com/api/agent/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-awardtape-mcp": {
      "url": "https://awardtape.com/api/agent/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-awardtape-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://awardtape.com/api/agent/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-awardtape-mcp]
url = "https://awardtape.com/api/agent/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-awardtape-mcp": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://awardtape.com/api/agent/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-awardtape-mcp --url 'https://awardtape.com/api/agent/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-awardtape-mcp:
    url: "https://awardtape.com/api/agent/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-awardtape-mcp": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://awardtape.com/api/agent/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-awardtape-mcp -t streamable-http -u 'https://awardtape.com/api/agent/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-awardtape-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://awardtape.com/api/agent/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.

### 2026-11-05 (score 67, +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.

### 2026-11-03 (score 66, +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.

### 2026-11-02 (score 65, 0)

- [security regression] A breaking change shipped without a version bump: still 1.0.0
- [security regression] Tool “request_contract_sow” was removed
- [security] Tool “find_expiring_recompetes” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “find_sell_now_opportunities” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “get_company” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “latest_awards” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “list_recompetes” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “request_owner_payment” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “search_awards” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “search_contract_documents” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 1933 → 2982
- [functional] New tool “find_contracts_ending”
- [functional] New tool “get_registration”
- [functional] New tool “get_sub_network”
- [functional] New tool “list_fms_notices”
- [functional] New tool “price_to_win”
- [functional] New tool “request_contract_documents”
- [functional] New tool “search_exclusions”
- [functional] New tool “search_past_solicitations”
- [functional] New tool “search_rules”
- [functional] New tool “search_subawards”

### 2026-11-01 (score 65, +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.

### 2026-10-30 (score 64, +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.

### 2026-10-27 (score 63, +1)

- [security] Tool “find_expiring_recompetes” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “find_sell_now_opportunities” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: pass → fail
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: 26% → 38%
- [functional] New tool “screen_supplier_compliance_uflpa_bis”
- [functional] New tool “search_grid_interconnection_queue”

### 2026-10-26 (score 62, +2)

- [security] Tool “get_company” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “latest_awards” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “request_owner_payment” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “search_awards” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 74 → 94
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: 0% → 26%
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [functional] Schema quality: fair → good
- [functional] New tool “check_demand_for_xyz”
- [functional] New tool “find_expiring_recompetes”
- [functional] New tool “find_sell_now_opportunities”
- [functional] New tool “get_global_trends”
- [functional] New tool “list_allied_and_fms”
- [functional] New tool “list_recompetes”
- [functional] New tool “list_sectors”
- [functional] New tool “request_contract_sow”
- [functional] New tool “search_contract_documents”
- [functional] New tool “search_procurement_specs”

### 2026-10-25 (score 60)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (27)

### `search_rules` (~90 tokens)

Federal Register rules and notices that matter to defense contractors (DFARS, FAR, DoD, DHS, DSCA), newest first. Pay as you go: $0.01/call (x402 USDC on Base or MPP), or 1 call from an API key.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string)
- `q` (string)
- `since` (string): YYYY-MM-DD

### `list_fms_notices` (~81 tokens)

Foreign Military Sales: DSCA arms sale notifications (buyer country, system, estimated value) from the Federal Register. Pay as you go: $0.02/call, or 1 call from an API key.

Input parameters:

- `q` (string): Country or system, e.g. Poland, PAC-3
- `since` (string)

### `price_to_win` (~140 tokens)

Comparable DoD and DHS awards for a product or service code (PSC) or category: obligated value p25, median, p75, competition mix, median offers received, and top winners with share. Use it to size a bid or quote. $0.02/call or 1 credit from an API key.

Input parameters:

- `agency` (string)
- `category` (string): Category slug, e.g. radar, unmanned-aircraft
- `max` (number)
- `min` (number)
- `psc` (string): 4-character PSC, e.g. 8470, 5820, R425

### `find_contracts_ending` (~109 tokens)

Every DoD and DHS contract in a PSC or category whose period of performance ends in the next N days (default 365), biggest first, with incumbent, agency, offers received and competition type. $0.02/call or 1 credit from an API key.

Input parameters:

- `agency` (string)
- `category` (string)
- `days` (integer)
- `limit` (integer)
- `min` (number)
- `psc` (string)

### `get_sub_network` (~104 tokens)

Prime to sub network for one company from DoD and DHS subcontract reports (FY2024 on): who it pays as a prime and which primes pay it as a sub, with dollar totals and dates. $0.02/call or 1 credit from an API key.

Input parameters:

- `company` (string): Company slug, e.g. anduril-industries
- `limit` (integer)
- `uei` (string): 12-character SAM UEI

### `get_registration` (~110 tokens)

SAM.gov registration for one company (status, expiration, CAGE, address, structure, NAICS) plus any exclusions tied to its UEI, CAGE or legal name, and an excluded_now flag. $0.02/call or 1 credit from an API key.

Input parameters:

- `cage` (string): 5-character CAGE code
- `company` (string): Company slug, e.g. lockheed-martin
- `uei` (string): 12-character SAM UEI

### `search_exclusions` (~158 tokens)

Search the SAM.gov exclusions list (debarred, suspended, or otherwise barred firms and people) by name, UEI, CAGE, excluding agency, classification or start date. active=1 keeps only exclusions in force today. $0.02/call or 1 credit from an API key.

Input parameters:

- `active` (string)
- `agency` (string): Excluding agency code, e.g. DLA, NAVY, ARMY, AF, DHS
- `cage` (string)
- `classification` (string)
- `from` (string): YYYY-MM-DD
- `limit` (integer)
- `q` (string): Name words, 3+ letters
- `uei` (string)

### `search_subawards` (~110 tokens)

DoD and DHS subcontract records (FY2024 on) for a prime contract (piid) or a company as prime or as sub (role=prime|sub), biggest first. $0.02/call or 1 credit from an API key.

Input parameters:

- `company` (string)
- `from` (string): YYYY-MM-DD
- `limit` (integer)
- `piid` (string)
- `role` (string)
- `uei` (string)

### `search_past_solicitations` (~178 tokens)

Past and current DoD and DHS contract opportunities from SAM.gov (FY2024 on), filtered by NAICS, PSC, title words, set-aside or company, each linked to the resulting award where one exists, with days from posting to award. $0.02/call or 1 credit from an API key.

Input parameters:

- `agency` (string)
- `awarded` (string)
- `company` (string): Company slug: returns notices it won
- `from` (string)
- `limit` (integer)
- `naics` (string)
- `psc` (string)
- `q` (string)
- `set_aside` (string): SAM set-aside code, e.g. SBA, 8A, SDVOSBC
- `to` (string)

### `sample` (~35 tokens)

Free plan: 5 latest DoD/DHS awards, one company profile, and the latest same-day Department of War daily contract announcements.

### `search_awards` (~131 tokens)

Search DoD and DHS prime contract awards since Oct 2023 by company, PIID, agency, category, PSC, date, amount. Pay as you go: $0.02/call or 1 credit from an API key (100 free calls per key, packs from $5 for 1,000).

Input parameters:

- `agency` (string)
- `category` (string)
- `from` (string)
- `min` (number)
- `page` (integer)
- `psc` (string)
- `q` (string)
- `to` (string)

### `get_company` (~61 tokens)

Company profile with obligations by year and top awards. Pay as you go: $0.02/call or 1 credit from an API key (100 free calls per key, packs from $5 for 1,000).

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required)

### `request_owner_payment` (~101 tokens)

Free. Creates a Stripe Checkout link for your human owner to pay by card: a credit pack: plan "starter" ($5 for 1,000 calls, default), "builder" ($25 for 6,000) or "scale" ($100 for 30,000). Send pay_url to your owner, then call check_owner_payment with claim_token until status is "paid"; the key is returned once.

Input parameters:

- `plan` (string)

### `check_owner_payment` (~38 tokens)

Free. Status of an owner checkout: pending, paid (returns the key once), claimed or expired.

Input parameters:

- `claim_token` (string, required)

### `latest_awards` (~66 tokens)

Latest 200 DoD/DHS awards by action date plus same-day Department of War daily contract announcements. Pay as you go: $0.05/call or 1 credit from an API key (100 free calls per key, packs from $5 for 1,000).

### `list_recompetes` (~51 tokens)

Free preview: largest DoD/DHS contracts expiring through mid-2028 (3 rows; filter by company slug or text). Full list through the paid API.

Input parameters:

- `q` (string)

### `list_sectors` (~32 tokens)

Free: DoD/DHS agencies by obligations and top Pentagon R-1/P-1 budget lines (preview).

### `check_demand_for_xyz` (~173 tokens)

Free (0 credits). Demand for XYZ velocity & market-structure analyzer: pass any capability, commodity, PSC/FSC code, MIL-STD, or weapon system (e.g. "radar", "counter-UAS", "fuel", "4470", "MIL-STD-810H") to get 7d/30d DoD spend velocity, velocity multiple vs baseline, top buying commands, market concentration (Consolidated -> Subcontract Play vs Open -> Direct Bid Play), and counts of open Sell-Now subcontract windows and Sell-Next expiring recompetes.

Input parameters:

- `q` (string): Capability, commodity, PSC/FSC code, standard, or weapon system query (e.g. radar, counter-UAS, fuel, 4470, MIL-STD-810H)

### `find_sell_now_opportunities` (~170 tokens)

Paid ($0.05/call or 1 credit from an API key). Immediate Sell-Now revenue targets: returns recent $15M+ prime awards with open tier-2/3 subcontracting windows (through 2026-10-23), open SAM.gov/DIU solicitations, and active IDIQ vehicles with unspent ceiling headroom, enriched with trigger_badge, monetize_action, filed_psc, supplier_12m_usd, and contract_dossier_url.

Input parameters:

- `agency` (string): Agency or branch filter (e.g. Navy, Army, Air Force, DARPA, USCG)
- `min_usd` (number): Minimum award or ceiling amount in USD
- `q` (string): Keyword, capability, PSC, standard, or company filter

### `find_expiring_recompetes` (~162 tokens)

Paid ($0.05/call or 1 credit from an API key). Sell-Next recompete radar: returns expiring DoD and DHS incumbent contracts (next 6-18 months) from the $126.8B recompete pipeline with days_to_expiry, burn_pct, incumbent_vulnerability (sole-source vs single-bid vs competed), monetize_action, and 1-click FOIA (Beta) URL.

Input parameters:

- `agency` (string): Agency or sub-agency filter
- `company` (string): Incumbent contractor name or slug filter
- `max_days` (integer): Maximum days until contract expiration (default 540)
- `q` (string): Keyword, capability, PSC, PIID, or office filter

### `search_contract_documents` (~121 tokens)

Search AwardTape's contract document index (Section B CLIN pricing schedules, Section C work statements, and FAR 6.303 Sole-Source J&As) and high-priority FOIA triggers by PIID, contractor, agency, or trigger type (recompete_sow, sole_source_ja, idiq_task_order). $0.05/call or 1 credit from an API key.

Input parameters:

- `company` (string)
- `piid` (string)
- `status` (string)
- `trigger` (string)

### `request_contract_documents` (~121 tokens)

Queue an anonymous public-release records request (FOIA) for a specific defense contract PIID (Section B pricing schedule, Section C work statement, or Sole-Source J&A) through AwardTape so your organization's identity remains confidential. Reviewed by the AwardTape publisher before filing; single requests $99.

Input parameters:

- `agency` (string)
- `callback_url` (string)
- `contractor` (string)
- `doc_type` (string)
- `email` (string)
- `notes` (string)
- `piid` (string, required)

### `search_procurement_specs` (~117 tokens)

Free: resolve a weapon system, designation, supply class (FSG/FSC/CPV) or defense standard (MIL-STD, NATO STANAG, DEF STAN) to AwardTape's specs catalog with governing standards, buying commands, primes and live 7d/30d contract volume.

Input parameters:

- `domain` (string)
- `q` (string): e.g. MIL-STD-810H, STANAG 4586, FSG 14, AN/TPY-2, Virginia-class

### `get_global_trends` (~57 tokens)

Free: global defense trend snapshot (capability clusters with 7d/30d volume and run-rate, buyer to supplier SPLC flow edges with $ and share, breakouts, key players).

Input parameters:

- `cluster` (string)

### `list_allied_and_fms` (~43 tokens)

Free preview: allied government defense procurement records (UK, EU/NATO, Australia, Canada) and SOUTHCOM summary.

Input parameters:

- `q` (string)

### `search_grid_interconnection_queue` (~185 tokens)

Search US power grid interconnection queues (PJM, ERCOT, MISO, NYISO, CAISO, SPP, ISO-NE) and DoD/DOE high-voltage transformer/substation contracts by ISO, substation/POI, developer ($MU, $NEE, $ETR, $GEV), state, or minimum MW capacity. Returns free preview (top 25 rows) or full feed with API key.

Input parameters:

- `iso` (string): ISO/RTO filter: PJM, ERCOT, MISO, NYISO, CAISO, SPP, ISO-NE, or DOD-DOE
- `min_mw` (number): Minimum capacity in MW (e.g. 100, 300, 500)
- `q` (string): Keyword, substation, developer, county, state, or trigger

### `screen_supplier_compliance_uflpa_bis` (~238 tokens)

Screen a supplier, factory, country code, or HTS/FSC code against the U.S. Consolidated Screening List (BIS Entity List, MEU, UVL, State ITAR/AECA Debarred, OFAC NS-CMIC/SDN), DHS UFLPA Entity List, DoD Section 1260H CMC, FDA/CBP Port Import Refusals, and USITC Section 301 tariffs, returning Cleared US & Allied Alternative Primes ($TXN, $ADI, $LHX, $TDY, $MP, $GEV).

Input parameters:

- `country` (string): 2-letter country code (e.g. CN, RU, IR, IN)
- `hts` (string): HTS or FSC code filter (e.g. 8504, 8542, 5962)
- `q` (string): Entity name, alias, keyword, or replacement prime
- `source` (string): List filter: BIS, UFLPA, 1260H, AECA, OFAC, FDA, HTS

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-awardtape-mcp/api-agent-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 67
- 2026-11-04: 66
- 2026-11-03: 66
- 2026-11-02: 65
- 2026-11-01: 65
- 2026-10-31: 64
- 2026-10-30: 64
- 2026-10-29: 63
- 2026-10-28: 63
- 2026-10-27: 63
- 2026-10-26: 62
- 2026-10-25: 60

## Common questions

### What is the AwardTape MCP server?

AwardTape is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.awardtape/mcp. Search DoD and DHS prime contract awards since FY2024, company profiles and daily contract releases. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://awardtape.com/api/agent/mcp).

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

AwardTape scores 67 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 AwardTape MCP server expose?

AwardTape exposes 27 tools: search_rules, list_fms_notices, price_to_win, find_contracts_ending, get_sub_network, and 22 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 2,982 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the AwardTape MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the AwardTape MCP server still maintained?

AwardTape 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://awardtape.com/api/agent/mcp
- Website: https://awardtape.com/agents/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-awardtape-mcp/api-agent-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-awardtape-mcp/api-agent-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-awardtape-mcp/api-agent-mcp