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Acquisition.gov

Acquisition.gov is an MCP server that adds tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Acquisition.gov FAR Overhaul model parts, agency deviations, PDFs, and guidance. It has 27 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx acquisition-gov-mcp.

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Install Acquisition.gov

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Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "acquisition-gov": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "acquisition-gov-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio acquisition-gov -- uvx acquisition-gov-mcp

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "acquisition-gov": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "acquisition-gov-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "acquisition-gov": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "acquisition-gov-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Claude Code (remote)

claude mcp add --transport http acquisition-gov "https://acquisition-gov.1102tools.com/mcp"

The same server is also hosted as a remote MCP endpoint, so nothing runs on your machine.

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About Acquisition.gov

Free, open-source, read-only, deterministic MCP access to the official Acquisition.gov FAR Overhaul (RFO) model-part pages, the posted agency-deviation index, official deviation PDFs, and a small allowlist of RFO guidance resources.

  • mcp
  • model-context-protocol
  • sam-gov
  • usaspending
  • federal-contracting
  • federal-data
  • govcon
  • mcp-server
  • acquisition
  • federal-acquisition

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How do I install the Acquisition.gov MCP server?

Add the command uvx acquisition-gov-mcp to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Acquisition.gov free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Acquisition.gov actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 25, 2026. The latest release is v1.0.34, published Oct 21, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.