# SpendQuery Muse connector

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## SpendQuery

Search US federal spending, contracts, SAM.gov notices, FAR rules and SBIR awards in plain English.

- Record: https://musedirectory.ai/connector/spendquery
- Category: Research & Data
- Developer: SpendQuery (https://spendquery.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, 605ms, checked 2026-10-30T01:51:21Z
- Endpoint: https://api.spendquery.com/mcp
- Auth: No account needed; Pricing: unknown
- Screening: Screened, no issues found (2026-10-30T01:51:21Z)
- Source: Found in the official MCP Registry (com.spendquery/spendquery) https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=com.spendquery%2Fspendquery

Connects to federal spending data including contracts, assistance awards, SAM.gov procurement notices, FAR regulations and SBIR awards. Helps find opportunities, understand procurement rules, research agencies and recipients, and browse what government buys.

Example request: "Show me recent federal contracts for IT services in my state and which companies won them."

How to connect: Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Paste this into Muse: "Use SpendQuery to help me. It is a free service with an MCP server at https://api.spendquery.com/mcp. 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:
- get_catalog: What SpendQuery can answer: data coverage, metrics, dimensions (with examples and whether they apply to contracts or assistance), analyses, the QueryPlan JSON schema, planning rules and example question -> plan pairs. Call this first (no arguments): the federal catalog. section: 
- run_plan: Run a QueryPlan (see get_catalog.plan_schema). Returns status (ok | clarify | unsupported | error), a one-paragraph answer, columns, rows (max 100), the SQL that ran, caveats and how names were resolved to codes.
- search_codes: Look up codes and official names. kind: agency | bureau | state | county | naics | psc | program. Matches names (substring, case-insensitive) or code prefixes. Plans can use either the names or the codes.
- search_recipients: Find award recipients (companies, universities, governments) by name or UEI. Returns each registration's UEI, parent, listed-company ticker (if matched) and its OWN obligations across loaded years, largest first. A parent's money sits on its units, so a parent UEI's own obligatio
- browse_codes: Browse what the government buys, with contract spend. kind: psc (products and services) | naics (industries). No group and no query -> the groups (PSC: services by letter, e.g. D = IT services, R = professional support; products by 2 digits, e.g. 84 = clothing and individual equi
- get_notice: One SAM.gov contract notice as SpendQuery's brief sees it, no AI: the decision card (what the buyer needs, blockers, unknowns, a next step; each line labelled record / files / unknown), the timeline of the buy (planned buy, the contract it follows, earlier and newer notices, the 
- size_standard: SBA small business size standards (13 CFR 121.201, the eCFR table): a NAICS code, a code prefix (5415) or industry words -> receipts ($ millions) or employees, exceptions and footnotes, and the programs that use them.
- naics_finder: Describe the work in plain words -> the NAICS codes buyers actually use for it (codes on SAM.gov notices whose titles have the words and on federal contracts described with them), each with its SBA size standard.
- vehicle_match: For 6-digit NAICS codes (and an optional agency): the shared contract vehicles (GWACs, multiple-award IDIQs, GSA Schedule, BPAs) carrying last complete year's contract money in those codes, the share through each and who each is reserved for (read from its name).
- search_far: Search the FAR and the DFARS (48 CFR chapters 1 and 2, as codified in the eCFR): sections whose title or text has every word, or a section number (e.g. 52.219-14) straight to it. reg: FAR | DFARS to limit. Returns section numbers, titles and a snippet; read one with get_far_secti
- get_far_section: One FAR or DFARS section's full text (paragraphs), its part and subpart, the sections it refers to and the ones referring to it, and Federal Register rules changing its part. Cite it as FAR <section> (or DFARS) with the as-of date in source.
- search_local_bids: State, county and city government bids and contracts (not federal awards), from the governments that publish them as open data: Los Angeles (the City, LA County, LADWP, LAUSD, airports, port, Metro), New York City, San Francisco, Washington DC, Chicago, Cook County, Austin, Detro
- sbir_awards: SBIR and STTR awards since 1983 from SBA's SBIR.gov records, and who received them: totals, awards by year (Phase I / II), by agency, the companies with the most, and the latest awards (company, title, agency, phase, amount, year). Filters: agency (as SBIR.gov names it, e.g. "Dep

Screening checks:
- MCP handshake: pass (Answered in 605ms)
- Domain against threat feeds (Cloudflare security DNS): pass (api.spendquery.com, spendquery.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 (13 tools read, nothing found)
- Inputs asking for passwords, card numbers or seed phrases: pass (None found)
- Domain and redirects: pass (Domain registered 34 days ago)
- AI review of purpose and tool behavior: pass (No concerns)