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Search Federal Contract Awards

Find US federal contract and grant awards by contractor name, agency, keyword, or value.

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Federal contracting data is public, but USASpending.gov is an unwieldy tool to search manually. Finding which companies have contracts with a specific agency, which agencies are spending on a technology category, or how much a particular firm has received in federal awards requires pagination, filtering, and manual aggregation that makes meaningful research time-consuming.

Government Spending searches federal contract and grant awards by keyword, recipient, agency, or date range and returns structured results you can work with immediately. Each award includes the recipient, the awarding agency, the value, the period of performance, and a description of the work.

Journalists, competitive intelligence analysts, government affairs teams, and researchers tracking public spending use this to surface federal contract activity in seconds rather than hours.

Agent Guides

Claude

  1. Connect ToolRouter to Claude: claude mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Ask Claude: "Search for federal contracts awarded to [company name] in the last two years"
  3. Claude returns awards with agency, value, and description for each
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ChatGPT

  1. Add ToolRouter to ChatGPT using the MCP JSON configuration
  2. Ask: "Find federal contracts for cybersecurity services awarded in the last year"
  3. ChatGPT returns awards with a summary of spending patterns
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Copilot

  1. Add ToolRouter to your Copilot MCP configuration
  2. In Copilot Chat: "Search for federal contracts awarded to [company] in the last two years"
  3. Copilot returns structured award data
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OpenClaw

  1. Connect ToolRouter to OpenClaw: openclaw mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Ask: "Search for federal contract awards to these companies in the last year"
  3. OpenClaw returns award data for each company
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