tenders vs Awardopedia - Federal Contracts
tenders is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by lexsocket. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). Awardopedia - Federal Contracts is an MCP server published by grayson-sys. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-15. This pair was picked by a reader, not by our comparison rule, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  tenders |  Awardopedia - Federal Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Listed Version: 1.0.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 0 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.1.1 Downloads/month (npm): 116 Downloads/week (npm): 16 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 0 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | tenders | Awardopedia - Federal Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) | 0 | 0 |
| Forks (GitHub) | 0 | 0 |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Remote server (mcp.lexsocket.ai) | On your machine (awardopedia-mcp) |
| Transport (differs) | Streamable HTTP | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | Not published | 1, secrets among them: 1 |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 2 | Not a bundle |
| Licence | Not stated | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/lexsocket/tenders | github.com/grayson-sys/awardopedia |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 0 | 0 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-11 |
| Endpoint at the last check (differs) | Not responding since 2026-10-15 | no remote endpoint we check |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. Where the data itself says which value is better (more marketplaces, a larger figure of the same marketplace, a fresher release, a verified mark on a marketplace that lists both), the better one is also marked green with ▲ and the worse one red with ▼. Where it runs, the transport, the tools, the settings, hooks, the bundle's parts, the licence and the week's changes are marked only as different: more or fewer is not better in itself.
What each says it does
tenders
Search, analyze, and monitor European public tenders (TED + 18 national sources) and EU legislation — directly from your AI assistant.
Awardopedia - Federal Contracts
Search federal government contract opportunities from SAM.gov via Claude
How to run each
tenders As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install tenders@claude-communityAwardopedia - Federal Contracts As a local MCP server: npm package
claude mcp add --env "AWARDOPEDIA_API_KEY=<YOUR_AWARDOPEDIA_API_KEY>" --transport stdio awardopedia -- npx -y awardopedia-mcpRequires: AWARDOPEDIA_API_KEY (secret)
Commands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Only tenders has a remote endpoint we check. How we check endpoints
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
The marketplaces of tenders publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.
What it can do: tenders · What it can do: Awardopedia - Federal Contracts · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.