Fed-Spend

Fed-Spend provides a federal spending intelligence platform that aggregates and analyzes US government contract data, offering searchable databases, real-time alerts, and AI‑powered insights for contractors and analysts. It covers over $7 trillion in spending, includes CPARS, GAO protest history, and set‑aside opportunities, positioning itself as an alternative to Bloomberg Government and GovWin.

Fed-Spend publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Contracts API and Search API. Tagged areas include Business Intelligence, Government, Federal Spending, Data Analytics, and Contract Intelligence.

The Fed-Spend catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Fed-Spend’s developer surface includes pricing, documentation, engineering blog, and 12 more developer resources.

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27.5/100 thin Agent 26/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 published contract

Business Intelligence Government Federal Spending Data Analytics Contract Intelligence Company

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 27.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.0 / 17

Access Clarity 3.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 2.2 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Government & Public Sector regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey) Ask about this →
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented) Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented) Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points Ask about this →
Access Clarity scores 19.1 — up to +16.2 composite points Ask about this →
Operational Transparency scores 0.0 — up to +13.0 composite points Ask about this →

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Fed-Spend Contracts API

Contract-specific endpoints

Fed-Spend Search API

Search for federal contracts, awards, and opportunities

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Fed-Spend API Rules

54 rules · 52 error-severity 1 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

ContractResponse

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchRequest

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchResponse

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Fed-Spend Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Fed-Spend Agentic Access

2 operations

2 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

DataModel

Spectral

Vocabulary

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: fed-spend-com
name: Fed-Spend
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  probe_state: gated
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://fed-spend.com/opengraph-image?76fdc4b597b6a299
description: Fed-Spend provides a federal spending intelligence platform that aggregates and analyzes US government contract
  data, offering searchable databases, real-time alerts, and AI‑powered insights for contractors and analysts. It covers over
  $7 trillion in spending, includes CPARS, GAO protest history, and set‑aside opportunities, positioning itself as an alternative
  to Bloomberg Government and GovWin.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/fed-spend-com/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-07 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-07'
modified: '2026-11-07'
tags:
- Business Intelligence
- Government
- Federal Spending
- Data Analytics
- Contract Intelligence
- Company
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/fed-spend-com-data-model.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/fed-spend-com-agentic-access.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/fed-spend-com-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/fed-spend-com-vocabulary.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/fed-spend-com-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/fed-spend-com-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/fed-spend-com-llms.txt
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/fed-spend-com-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/fed-spend-com-vendors.yml
- type: Pricing
  url: https://fed-spend.com/pricing
- type: Login
  url: https://fed-spend.com/login
- type: Documentation
  url: https://fed-spend.com/docs
- type: Blog
  url: https://fed-spend.com/blog
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/fed-spend-com-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://fed-spend.com/
apis:
- aid: fed-spend-com:fed-spend-com-contracts-api
  name: Fed-Spend Contracts API
  description: Contract-specific endpoints
  humanURL: https://fed-spend.com/docs
  baseURL: https://fed-spend.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Contracts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/fed-spend-com-contracts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/fed-spend-com-contract-response-schema.json
- aid: fed-spend-com:fed-spend-com-search-api
  name: Fed-Spend Search API
  description: Search for federal contracts, awards, and opportunities
  humanURL: https://fed-spend.com/docs
  baseURL: https://fed-spend.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/fed-spend-com-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/fed-spend-com-search-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/fed-spend-com-search-response-schema.json
x-coverage:
  state: gated
  reason: partner-login
  method: derived
  generated: '2026-11-07'
  generator: derive-coverage.py (pre-flight evidence)
  detail: the company serves an API surface but requires credentials before any description of it can be read
  evidence:
  - url: https://fed-spend.com/openapi.json
    status: null
  - url: https://fed-spend.com/api/mcp
    status: 401
  - url: https://fed-spend.com/
    status: 200
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-07'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 16
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

Fed-Spend API — frequently asked questions

Does Fed-Spend have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Fed-Spend, including Fed-Spend Contracts API and Fed-Spend Search API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Fed-Spend API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Fed-Spend, each linked for download from this page.

Is the Fed-Spend API ready for AI agents?

Fed-Spend has a Kin Score of 27.5 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.5 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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