Community-Built Acquisition Tools
Useful tools from contracting professionals, 1102s, and adjacent builders who are making acquisition work a little less painful.
Other builders worth knowing about
This page is for practitioner-built tools, research libraries, open-source helpers, and AI-adjacent projects that are actually useful to the acquisition community.
Free, open-source MCP servers that let AI clients search live federal data sources like USAspending, SAM, eCFR, GSA CALC+, BLS wages, Federal Register, and Regulations.gov.
A searchable acquisition research library indexing sources like the RFO, R-DFARS, FAR Companion, and DAF Compass so you can search across source text without juggling tabs and PDFs.
Building something useful? Send it over if it helps contracting, acquisition research, source selection, small business support, training, or AI-enabled federal work.
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