Search Service Contract Inventory MCP tool

Searches GovTribe Service Contract Inventory records for service-contract footprint, contractor reliance, workforce-rebalancing, and workshare analysis.

MCP tool name: Search_Service_Contract_Inventory
Data type: Service Contract Inventory record data type
Returns: Service Contract Inventory MCP response
Search modes: Keyword
Annotations: Read only, not destructive, idempotent, closed world
Surfaces: GovTribe AI, GovTribe MCP, GovTribe Compact MCP server (through Invoke Search Tool)

Examples

Use this tool when the question is about service-contract inventory rows, contractor reliance, hours/FTE workshare, or annual SCI source provenance. Use federal award and IDV search tools for obligation history, award lifecycle details, and transaction analysis.

Which FY 2024 records mention help desk services?

{
  "tool": "Search_Service_Contract_Inventory",
  "arguments": {
    "query": "\"help desk\"",
    "fiscal_year": [
      2024
    ],
    "per_page": 5,
    "fields_to_return": [
      "govtribe_id",
      "fiscal_year",
      "role",
      "contract_number",
      "description",
      "hours_invoiced",
      "ftes",
      "vendor",
      "federal_contract_award"
    ]
  }
}

Restrict a multi-fiscal-year rollup to government-wide records

Acquisition.gov SCI files cover both DoD and civilian agencies from FY 2022 forward. FY 2021 and earlier files cover civilian agencies only. When a multi-year question should compare apples to apples, filter to government-wide so civilian-only years are excluded.

{
  "tool": "Search_Service_Contract_Inventory",
  "arguments": {
    "fiscal_year": [
      2020,
      2021,
      2022,
      2023,
      2024
    ],
    "coverage_scope": [
      "government-wide"
    ],
    "per_page": 0,
    "aggregations": [
      "top_fiscal_years_by_doc_count",
      "total_dollar_amount_invoiced_stats"
    ]
  }
}

Which prime records have high derived hourly rates?

{
  "tool": "Search_Service_Contract_Inventory",
  "arguments": {
    "role": [
      "prime"
    ],
    "derived_hourly_rate_range": {
      "min": 150
    },
    "subcontractor_count_range": {
      "max": 0
    },
    "sort": {
      "key": "derivedHourlyRate",
      "direction": "desc"
    },
    "fields_to_return": [
      "govtribe_id",
      "fiscal_year",
      "contract_number",
      "derived_hourly_rate",
      "total_dollar_amount_invoiced",
      "total_contractor_hours_invoiced",
      "subcontractor_count",
      "vendor"
    ]
  }
}

Aggregation examples

Set per_page to 0 when the answer needs rollups instead of individual SCI rows.

How is work distributed across vendors and agencies?

{
  "tool": "Search_Service_Contract_Inventory",
  "arguments": {
    "fiscal_year": [
      2024
    ],
    "per_page": 0,
    "aggregations": [
      "hours_invoiced_stats",
      "total_dollar_amount_invoiced_stats",
      "top_vendors_by_doc_count",
      "top_contracting_agencies_by_doc_count",
      "top_psc_categories_by_doc_count",
      "top_roles_by_doc_count"
    ]
  }
}

Does this result set mix government-wide and civilian-only records?

Use top_coverage_scopes_by_doc_count to detect mixed-scope SCI result sets before interpreting multi-fiscal-year totals. When the bucket list contains both government-wide and civilian-only, the result set crosses the FY 2022 boundary and DoD coverage is not consistent across all fiscal years.

{
  "tool": "Search_Service_Contract_Inventory",
  "arguments": {
    "fiscal_year": [
      2020,
      2021,
      2022,
      2023,
      2024
    ],
    "per_page": 0,
    "aggregations": [
      "top_coverage_scopes_by_doc_count",
      "top_fiscal_years_by_doc_count"
    ]
  }
}

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Service Contract Inventory record data type: Understand the shared record fields and relationships used by this tool.
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