open_bids_search
ActiveTool of Gov Bids
Find OPEN US government bid solicitations (RFPs/RFQs/IFBs) that vendors can currently respond to, from city & county procurement portals — updated daily. Filter by keyword (matches solicitation title/reference), jurisdiction, and closing window. Returns each opportunity with title, reference number, awarding jurisdiction, close date, and the URL to respond. By default returns OPEN bids sorted by soonest close date; set status to 'closed' or 'all' to search past solicitations too (we retain history). Use for 'what is <city/county> currently bidding out' or 'open RFPs for <keyword>'. This is LIVE OPEN BIDS (for awarded contracts use gov_contracts_search).
Parameters schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"limit": {
"type": [
"number",
"string"
],
"description": "Max bids (default 25, max 100)."
},
"status": {
"enum": [
"open",
"closed",
"all"
],
"type": "string",
"description": "Bid status (default 'open'). 'closed' / 'all' search retained history."
},
"keyword": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Case-insensitive substring matched against the solicitation title/reference, e.g. \"construction\", \"audit\", \"software\"."
},
"jurisdiction": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Jurisdiction key to target (e.g. \"fort-worth-tx\", \"harris-county-tx\", \"cook-county-il\"). Omit for all covered jurisdictions. Use gov_bids_jurisdictions to list keys."
},
"closing_within_days": {
"type": [
"number",
"string"
],
"description": "Only OPEN bids closing within this many days from now."
}
}
}No endpoints wrapped at confidence ≥ 0.70.
Parent server
Gov Bids
https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-gov-bids
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