# finance_gov_awards

Returns largest federal contract awards: amount, agency, type, period, description. USAspending.gov source. For govcon s Cost: $0.005–$0.05 USDC on Base per call.

Agent View of the PolicyLayer registry record for `finance_gov_awards`. HTML page: https://policylayer.com/tools/com-gocreativeai-omnicall-agent-tools/finance-gov-awards

## Facts

- Tool: `finance_gov_awards`
- Server: Omnicall — Agent Tools Gateway (`https://omnicall.gocreativeai.com/mcp`) — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-gocreativeai-omnicall-agent-tools.md
- Homepage: https://github.com/https://omnicall.gocreativeai.com/mcp
- Risk category: Read (Low risk)
- Registry record: grade C, identity unverified
- Server auth posture: open
- Server rate-limited: no
- Parameters: 1 (1 required)
- Recommended policy verdict: Allowed

## Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `arg` | string | yes |  |

Parameters from the server's own tool schema.

## Example call (MCP tools/call, JSON-RPC 2.0)

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "finance_gov_awards",
    "arguments": {
      "arg": "<arg>"
    }
  }
}
```

## Why finance_gov_awards is rated Low

This tool queries and retrieves publicly available government contract information without modifying data, executing code, or initiating financial transactions on behalf of the user. The USDC payment is a standard usage fee charged by the MCP server, not a financial operation the tool performs. It is purely informational (Read category).

From the tool's own definition: "Tool 'returns' federal contract award data from USAspending.gov; described as a retrieval operation with no mutation capability. The cost structure (payment per call) is a transaction fee, not a financial movement initiated by the tool."

## Use case

AI agents call finance_gov_awards to retrieve information from Omnicall — Agent Tools Gateway without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

## Recommended policy (PolicyLayer)

Verdict: **Allowed**. Enforced by the PolicyLayer MCP gateway (https://policylayer.com/mcp-gateway) before a call reaches Omnicall — Agent Tools Gateway:

```json
{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "finance_gov_awards": {}
  }
}
```

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