# US Federal Awards (USAspending) (remote · usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app)

See who wins US federal contracts and grants (USAspending.gov). $0.02/call via x402.

- Trust score: 23/100 (low)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-19

## Components

- remote · `usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app`: 23/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pcp183-usaspending-awards/usaspending-awards-production.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pcp183-usaspending-awards/usaspending-awards-production)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `0.2.0`

## 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 2026-10-19.

- **Endpoint Security**: 57/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation not yet verified: we couldn't confirm whether this endpoint requires it.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 0/100
  - Transport check failed: declared streamable-http, but the endpoint returned HTTP 404.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 0/100
  - Schema not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's schema, or could read only part of its tool list.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **Tool Coverage**: 0/100
  - Tool coverage not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's tools, or could read only part of the list.
- **Tool Safety**: 0/100
  - Tool safety not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's tools, or could read only part of the list.
- **Capabilities**: 0/100
  - Capabilities not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's capabilities.

**Unverified: 5 categories.** Categories scored 0 because we could not verify them: authentication we do not have, an unreachable endpoint, or not enough scan history. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### How do I install the US Federal Awards (USAspending) MCP server?

US Federal Awards (USAspending) is a hosted endpoint at https://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/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 pcp183-usaspending-awards 'https://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pcp183-usaspending-awards": {
      "url": "https://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "pcp183-usaspending-awards": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.pcp183-usaspending-awards]
url = "https://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "pcp183-usaspending-awards": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add pcp183-usaspending-awards --url 'https://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  pcp183-usaspending-awards:
    url: "https://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "pcp183-usaspending-awards": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add pcp183-usaspending-awards -t streamable-http -u 'https://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pcp183-usaspending-awards": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/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.

### 2026-10-17 (score 23, −41)

- [security regression] Endpoint reachability: reachable → not serving MCP
- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [security regression] Transport: pass → fail
- [security] Authorization: Authorisation not yet verified: we couldn't confirm whether this endpoint requires it.
- [security] Tool “search_us_federal_awards” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Capabilities: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified
- [functional] Server version: 0.1.0 → 0.2.0

### 2026-10-16 (score 64)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (1)

### `search_us_federal_awards` (~215 tokens)

Find out who wins US federal contracts and grants, or what a company has been awarded. Searches USAspending.gov (official US Treasury data) across contracts, IDVs, grants or loans by keyword, recipient, awarding agency, NAICS and date range: award ID, recipient, UEI, amount, agency, dates, description, place of performance and links. Use for competitor research, partner finding or US public-sector sales leads. $0.02 per call, USDC on Base (x402).

Input parameters:

- `agency` (string): Awarding agency
- `award_type` (string): Default contracts
- `days` (integer): Look-back days (default 365)
- `limit` (integer): Max results (default 20)
- `naics` (string): NAICS codes
- `payment_signature` (string): x402 v2 PAYMENT-SIGNATURE header value. Omit to receive payment requirements.
- `query` (string): Keywords
- `recipient` (string): Recipient name

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pcp183-usaspending-awards/usaspending-awards-production#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-19: 23
- 2026-10-18: 23
- 2026-10-17: 23
- 2026-10-16: 64

## Common questions

### What is the US Federal Awards (USAspending) MCP server?

US Federal Awards (USAspending) is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pcp183/usaspending-awards. See who wins US federal contracts and grants (USAspending.gov). $0.02/call via x402. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/mcp).

### Is the US Federal Awards (USAspending) MCP server safe to use?

US Federal Awards (USAspending) scores 23 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 US Federal Awards (USAspending) MCP server expose?

US Federal Awards (USAspending) exposes 1 tool: search_us_federal_awards. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 215 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the US Federal Awards (USAspending) MCP server require authentication?

Its publisher declares no required credentials for US Federal Awards (USAspending). We have not been able to confirm that against the live endpoint, and a server can require authorisation without declaring it here.

### Is the US Federal Awards (USAspending) MCP server still maintained?

US Federal Awards (USAspending) is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 19 October 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://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/pcp183/usaspending-awards
- Website: https://usaspending-awards-production.up.railway.app/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pcp183-usaspending-awards/usaspending-awards-production.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pcp183-usaspending-awards/usaspending-awards-production.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pcp183-usaspending-awards/usaspending-awards-production