About Ny Procurement
Ny Procurement is an MCP server for people researching New York State authority contracts and vendors. It supports contract searches and vendor summaries, focusing on state data rather than federal or New York City procurement.
Key features
- 01Search contracts by vendor, agency, or keyword
- 02Filter by procurement type, fiscal year, and amount
- 03Rank contract results by amount
- 04Aggregate vendor award totals and counts
- 05Break down vendor data by agency and year
Use cases
- 01Find winners of New York State contracts
- 02Compare leading vendors for an authority
- 03Assess a vendor’s business with state authorities
MCP support
It exposes tools for searching New York State authority procurement awards and aggregating vendor data to MCP clients. It is available through the Pipeworx gateway or as a local stdio MCP server.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ny-procurement/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http pipeworx-io-ny-procurement https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ny-procurement/mcp{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-ny-procurement":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ny-procurement/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"pipeworx-io-ny-procurement":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ny-procurement/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-ny-procurement":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ny-procurement/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-ny-procurement":{"serverUrl":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ny-procurement/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
Details
From the project READMEmcp-ny-procurement
New York State Procurement MCP — State contract awards & procurement (keyless).
Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1683+ live data sources.
Tools
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
ny_procurement_awards | Search NEW YORK STATE government contract awards & procurement from the official Procurement Report for State Authorities on data.ny.gov (the §2800 Public Authorities Law filings collected by the NY Authorities Budget Office). Each result is a procurement contract awarded by a New York State authority (the awarding agency) with the winning vendor, the contract dollar amount, the procurement type, the award/solicitation process, the description of goods/services, and award/begin dates. Filter by vendor, awarding agency/authority, keyword, procurement type, fiscal year, and/or a minimum amount; results are ranked by contract amount (biggest awards first) by default. Use this for questions like "who won the biggest New York State contracts", "top vendors to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority", or "NY state software contracts". This is NEW YORK STATE data (not federal, not New York City). |
ny_procurement_vendor | Aggregate a vendor's NEW YORK STATE contract awards from the Procurement Report for State Authorities on data.ny.gov: total dollars awarded, number of contracts, and a breakdown by awarding agency/authority and by fiscal year. Matches the vendor name as a case-insensitive substring, so it also surfaces name variants (e.g. "IBM CORP" vs "IBM LC LODGING"). Use this to size up a single vendor's business with New York State authorities. This is NEW YORK STATE data (not federal, not New York City). |
Quick Start
Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):
{
"mcpServers": {
"ny-procurement": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ny-procurement/mcp"
}
}
}
What this endpoint actually serves
tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ny-procurement/mcp returns the tools in the table
above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx,
discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the
gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a
single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the
pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and
is the authoritative answer for a given day.
This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a
scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via
ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a
second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without
them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth,
connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.
Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pipeworx": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
}
}
}
Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1683+ data sources. The
only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx
reaches all of them from either one.
No MCP client? Call it over HTTP
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/ny_procurement_awards \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"vendor":"IBM","agency":"Metropolitan Transportation Authority","limit":20}'
No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/ny_procurement_awards. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.
Standalone (no gateway account)
This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:
{
"mcpServers": {
"ny-procurement": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-ny-procurement"]
}
}
}
Or run it directly to confirm it starts:
npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-ny-procurement
It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call
for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway
connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.
Using with ask_pipeworx
Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:
ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Ny Procurement data" })
The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.
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License
MIT
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