search_grants_and_procurement
Search Grants & Contracts (Combined)
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MIXED search across all 32,393 opportunities from 232 sources — combines grants AND procurement/contracts in one query. This mixes funding types which can create noisy results.
ROUTING — use the specialized tool instead:
• User wants grants/funding/fellowships/prizes → search_grantsplus
• User wants contracts/RFPs/procurement/bids → search_procurement
• User explicitly wants BOTH types → search_grants_and_procurement
• Intent unclear → ASK the user first
Use search_grantsplus or search_procurement for cleaner, more relevant results. Free tier: 10 searches/month, full results. Paid plans add higher monthly limits. Paid plans show new listings the day they open; the free plan reaches the same listings after 10 days. Counts toward your monthly searches.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | no | Natural language search query |
| category | string | no | Filter by category |
| status | string | no | Filter by status |
| deadline_within_days | number | no | Only opportunities closing within N days |
| posted_within_days | number | no | Preferred alias for new_within_days: only opportunities WE ADDED (ingested) in the last N days. In queryless browse mode without a single source, the recency window is sampled across sources round-robin by ingest recency so one bulk harvester cannot own the digest; each source remains newest first. In windowCoverage, sourcesSampled counts distinct sources returned by the grouped provider query before MCP quality, judge, recency-withhold, and page filters; it is absent when no grouped sample was available, including when sampling was not attempted, and 0 means the grouped query succeeded but returned no sourced rows; sourcesServed counts distinct sources delivered on this page. windowCoverage.order is "recency" for the queryless browse digest or "relevance" when a query is present. windowIncomplete/incompleteReason is separate from ceilingTruncated, which is true only when the 2,000-row ceiling excluded records; ceilingTruncated and hardCeiling are present only when order is "recency" and are omitted entirely under "relevance" (query mode never walks past a single bounded fetch, so no ceiling logic runs). Uses the same ingest freshness field as newSince/recurring checks; not the opportunity posted date or deadline. If both posted_within_days and new_within_days are supplied, posted_within_days wins. |
| new_within_days | number | no | Backwards-compatible alias for posted_within_days. Only opportunities WE ADDED (ingested) in the last N days for recurring/delta checks ("what is new since my last check"). Additive to all other filters. In queryless browse mode without a single source, the recency window is sampled across sources round-robin by ingest recency so one bulk harvester cannot own the digest; each source remains newest first. The response includes newSince and windowCoverage: sourcesSampled counts distinct sources returned by the grouped provider query before MCP quality, judge, recency-withhold, and page filters; it is absent when no grouped sample was available, including when sampling was not attempted, and 0 means the grouped query succeeded but returned no sourced rows; sourcesServed counts distinct sources delivered on this page. windowCoverage.order is "recency" for the queryless browse digest or "relevance" when a query is present. windowIncomplete/incompleteReason is separate from ceilingTruncated, which is true only when the 2,000-row ceiling excluded records; ceilingTruncated and hardCeiling are present only when order is "recency" and are omitted entirely under "relevance" (query mode never walks past a single bounded fetch, so no ceiling logic runs). Not the opportunity posted date or deadline. |
| since | string | no | Stateless alternative to posted_within_days/new_within_days: ISO 8601 instant. Only opportunities ingested at/after this instant. Store the previous response newSince.newest and pass it here to manage your own watermark. |
| organization | string | no | Filter by organization or funder name |
| source | string | no | Filter by source domain or dataSource (e.g., "grants.gov" or "tier0-sam.gov") |
| limit | number | no | Max results (default: 10) |
| cursor | string | no | Pagination cursor from previous response |
| min_quality | string | no | Minimum quality threshold (default: medium) |
| compact | boolean | no | Return compact results (default: true). Compact results include essential fields: id, title, organization, category, url, deadline, deadlineType, daysUntilDeadline, deadlineLabel, lastRoundClosedAt, status, qualityScore, and snippet. Set to false for full details including eligibility, amounts, and match explanations. |
| procurement_type | string | no | Filter SAM.gov contracts by industry type. professional_services = consulting, engineering, R&D (NAICS 54xxxx, excludes manufacturing/construction noise). it_services = software, IT systems (NAICS 5415xx). construction = building projects (NAICS 23xxxx). manufacturing = production (NAICS 31-33xxxx). Use this to avoid irrelevant commodity results like "O-RING" or "VALVE" when searching for service contracts. |
| user_context | object | no | User context for better filtering |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"query": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Natural language search query"
},
"category": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Filter by category"
},
"status": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"open",
"closed",
"all"
],
"description": "Filter by status"
},
"deadline_within_days": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Only opportunities closing within N days"
},
"posted_within_days": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Preferred alias for new_within_days: only opportunities WE ADDED (ingested) in the last N days. In queryless browse mode without a single source, the recency window is sampled across sources round-robin by ingest recency so one bulk harvester cannot own the digest; each source remains newest first. In windowCoverage, sourcesSampled counts distinct sources returned by the grouped provider query before MCP quality, judge, recency-withhold, and page filters; it is absent when no grouped sample was available, including when sampling was not attempted, and 0 means the grouped query succeeded but returned no sourced rows; sourcesServed counts distinct sources delivered on this page. windowCoverage.order is \"recency\" for the queryless browse digest or \"relevance\" when a query is present. windowIncomplete/incompleteReason is separate from ceilingTruncated, which is true only when the 2,000-row ceiling excluded records; ceilingTruncated and hardCeiling are present only when order is \"recency\" and are omitted entirely under \"relevance\" (query mode never walks past a single bounded fetch, so no ceiling logic runs). Uses the same ingest freshness field as newSince/recurring checks; not the opportunity posted date or deadline. If both posted_within_days and new_within_days are supplied, posted_within_days wins."
},
"new_within_days": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Backwards-compatible alias for posted_within_days. Only opportunities WE ADDED (ingested) in the last N days for recurring/delta checks (\"what is new since my last check\"). Additive to all other filters. In queryless browse mode without a single source, the recency window is sampled across sources round-robin by ingest recency so one bulk harvester cannot own the digest; each source remains newest first. The response includes newSince and windowCoverage: sourcesSampled counts distinct sources returned by the grouped provider query before MCP quality, judge, recency-withhold, and page filters; it is absent when no grouped sample was available, including when sampling was not attempted, and 0 means the grouped query succeeded but returned no sourced rows; sourcesServed counts distinct sources delivered on this page. windowCoverage.order is \"recency\" for the queryless browse digest or \"relevance\" when a query is present. windowIncomplete/incompleteReason is separate from ceilingTruncated, which is true only when the 2,000-row ceiling excluded records; ceilingTruncated and hardCeiling are present only when order is \"recency\" and are omitted entirely under \"relevance\" (query mode never walks past a single bounded fetch, so no ceiling logic runs). Not the opportunity posted date or deadline."
},
"since": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Stateless alternative to posted_within_days/new_within_days: ISO 8601 instant. Only opportunities ingested at/after this instant. Store the previous response newSince.newest and pass it here to manage your own watermark."
},
"organization": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Filter by organization or funder name"
},
"source": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Filter by source domain or dataSource (e.g., \"grants.gov\" or \"tier0-sam.gov\")"
},
"limit": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Max results (default: 10)"
},
"cursor": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Pagination cursor from previous response"
},
"min_quality": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"high",
"medium",
"low",
"any"
],
"description": "Minimum quality threshold (default: medium)"
},
"compact": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Return compact results (default: true). Compact results include essential fields: id, title, organization, category, url, deadline, deadlineType, daysUntilDeadline, deadlineLabel, lastRoundClosedAt, status, qualityScore, and snippet. Set to false for full details including eligibility, amounts, and match explanations."
},
"procurement_type": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"professional_services",
"it_services",
"construction",
"manufacturing",
"all"
],
"description": "Filter SAM.gov contracts by industry type. professional_services = consulting, engineering, R&D (NAICS 54xxxx, excludes manufacturing/construction noise). it_services = software, IT systems (NAICS 5415xx). construction = building projects (NAICS 23xxxx). manufacturing = production (NAICS 31-33xxxx). Use this to avoid irrelevant commodity results like \"O-RING\" or \"VALVE\" when searching for service contracts."
},
"user_context": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"organization_type": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"nonprofit",
"startup",
"small_business",
"university",
"government",
"individual"
],
"description": "Common natural-language phrasing (e.g. \"501(c)(3) nonprofit\") is also parsed; unparseable values are ignored with an explicit note in the response."
},
"location": {
"type": "string"
},
"location_strict": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"looking_for": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"grants",
"contracts",
"all"
]
},
"naics_codes": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "NAICS codes to INCLUDE (e.g., [\"541611\"])"
},
"exclude_naics_prefixes": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "NAICS prefixes to EXCLUDE. Use [\"31\", \"32\", \"33\"] to exclude manufacturing, [\"23\"] to exclude construction. Eliminates commodity procurement noise like \"O-RING\" or \"VALVE\" results."
},
"procurement_type": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"professional_services",
"construction",
"manufacturing",
"it_services",
"all"
],
"description": "Preset filter for SAM.gov: professional_services (NAICS 54xxxx - consulting, engineering, R&D, excludes manufacturing/construction noise), it_services (NAICS 5415xx), construction (23xxxx), manufacturing (31-33xxxx). Use this OR exclude_naics_prefixes, not both."
}
},
"description": "User context for better filtering"
}
},
"anyOf": [
{
"required": [
"query"
]
},
{
"required": [
"source"
]
},
{
"required": [
"organization"
]
}
]
}