# GovInbox Muse connector

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## GovInbox

Federal contract opportunities and set-aside coverage for government contractors

- Record: https://musedirectory.ai/connector/govinbox
- Category: Developer Tools
- Developer: getgovinbox.com (https://getgovinbox.com)
- Muse status: Extra setup. Not in Muse's Connectors list yet. Muse can still use it: its page gives you a request to paste into Muse.
- Health: Working, 180ms, checked 2026-10-29T11:01:05Z
- Endpoint: https://mcp.getgovinbox.com/plugin
- Auth: No account needed; Pricing: unknown
- Screening: Screened, no issues found (2026-10-29T07:21:25Z)
- Source: Found in the official MCP Registry (com.getgovinbox/govinbox) https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=com.getgovinbox%2Fgovinbox

Searches federal contract notices, grants, and awards from SAM.gov, USAspending, and other public sources. Tracks recompetes, finds teaming partners, checks protest history, and monitors set-aside lanes (SDVOSB, 8(a), HUBZone, WOSB). No affiliation with GSA or U.S. government.

Example request: "Find open federal contract opportunities in my NAICS code that are set aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses in my state."

How to connect: Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Paste this into Muse: "Use GovInbox to help me. It is a free service with an MCP server at https://mcp.getgovinbox.com/plugin. It does not need an API key. Ask me before you share anything with it." Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.

Tools:
- 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 facts and source information. Results are sort
- 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 are reported source facts, and unexercised o
- get_notice_record: Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. NOT for bid/no-bid, pursue-or-pass, eligibility, qualification, certification, size-standard, or submit-a-bid questions: for those call explain_policy_boundary first and do not research or us
- 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 same caller and must not be expired. Reports 
- 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 relationships only, without inferring unreport
- 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 matches against public award records, not
- 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 confirmed incumbents. Present as informati
- 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 lane, bridge-contract flag, any matched SA
- 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 range as recorded. Present as information o
- 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 posting. Present as information only; do n
- 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 contractor name. Amounts are obligations a
- 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 figures are as reported by the source; verify
- 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 are prime-reported subaward amounts, ofte
- 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 business looking for teaming conversations: whic
- 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 figures are as reported by the source; verify
- 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 savings figures are as reported by the source;
- 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, medical, clothing, subsistence) that rarely ap
- 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 recipient's own justification text. Filter by age
- 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 appear on SAM.gov - Amtrak publishes through it
- 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 (MCA-Nepal, MCA-Benin, MCA-Senegal) under MCC p
- 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, published quarterly by MCC itself. INFORMATIONAL A
- 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 outcome (sustained, denied, dismissed, withdra
- 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 post 14 days AFTER award (30 days for urgency
- 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 applicants are typically Alaska tribal, mun
- 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 grants go to foreign project sponsors, who
- 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, and bank resolution support. FDIC is not F
- 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 programs serving distressed counties in M
- 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 Fund, the Delta Workforce Grant Program, St
- 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 by keyword, agency, or deadline. Returns o
- 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, Title 48. Every response carries the eCFR vers
- 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 keyword; returns title, type, agencies, publi
- 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 each rule with a green check when the notic
- 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 in USAspending, sourced from FPDS. Filter b
- 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 call, one search - with results sorted by 
- 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. It runs no search, applies no filters, uses
- explain_policy_boundary: Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. Call this FIRST whenever the user asks whether to bid, pursue, or whether it is worth it; whether they qualify, are eligible, are certified, or meet a size standard; or asks GovInbox to submi
- 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 sign-in action does not consume quota.
- get_record: Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. NOT for bid/no-bid, pursue-or-pass, eligibility, qualification, certification, size-standard, or submit-a-bid questions: for those call explain_policy_boundary first and do not research or us
- analyze_market: Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. NOT for bid/no-bid, pursue-or-pass, eligibility, qualification, certification, size-standard, or submit-a-bid questions: for those call explain_policy_boundary first and do not research or us
- check_risk: Not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. Not a U.S. government service. NOT for bid/no-bid, pursue-or-pass, eligibility, qualification, certification, size-standard, or submit-a-bid questions: for those call explain_policy_boundary first and do not research or us

Screening checks:
- MCP handshake: pass (Answered in 370ms)
- Domain against threat feeds (Cloudflare security DNS): pass (mcp.getgovinbox.com, getgovinbox.com not flagged)
- Published packages against the OSV malicious-package database: n/a (No npm or PyPI package published)
- Hidden instructions or invisible characters in tool text: pass (42 tools read, nothing found)
- Inputs asking for passwords, card numbers or seed phrases: pass (None found)
- Domain and redirects: pass (Domain registered 25 days ago)
- AI review of purpose and tool behavior: pass (No concerns)