govbuy

govbuy — the UK public-procurement co-pilot

Ask your AI assistant how to buy a thing across the UK public sector, where to sell it as a vendor, or how public money flows as a researcher — and get a complete, source-anchored, decision-grade answer. govbuy fuses three layers no other tool holds together:

• Route — 3,200 frameworks & dynamic markets, 117,829 catalogue listings, the lots, mechanics and documents a compliant purchase needs — and where a framework publishes no supplier list or mechanic, backfilled from real awards (who's actually been awarded call-offs on it).
• Reality — 658k real tender awards joined on Companies House CRN: who actually wins the work, what buyers really pay, what's live, what's coming (29k forward pipeline notices), and what's expiring (re-procurement deadlines + incumbent-displacement windows).
• Statute — the Procurement Act 2023 mechanics (standstill, competitive flexible procedure, exclusions, debarment) so the route isn't just available but defensible.

That makes it decisive — ask buy and one verb returns the opinionated brief and a head-to-head decision matrix of the alternative routes (speed × competition × price × supplier depth × runway), not a database dump — and bulletproof: every supplier is exclusion-checked against both PA2023 limbs — a live Companies House insolvency check and the s.62 debarment register — and every claim ships its source URL. Route × reality × statute, for buyers, suppliers and researchers alike.

Live now. Easiest — install the Claude plugin (bundles the MCP server + a skill + slash commands):

/plugin marketplace add chrisns/govbuy
/plugin install govbuy@cns

Then run /govbuy:start. (Approve the bundled MCP server when prompted.) See plugins/govbuy.

Or add just the MCP server to any client:

claude mcp add --transport http govbuy https://govbuy.run.cns.me/mcp

…and there's a website that explains the whole thing, with explorable dashboards built from live BigQuery at build time (never from memory) — at govbuy.run.cns.me:

Set it up in a minute — copy-paste recipes for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Cursor & any MCP client, each linking its official docs.

Responsive — the same source-anchored numbers and dashboards on mobile.

"I want Appvia to build me a landing zone. How can I contract them?" → Appvia (CRN 10653692, Companies House auto-matched) is appointed to Technology Services 4 (RM6190) and G-Cloud 14 (RM1557.14); both permit direct award or further competition — each claim carrying a verbatim excerpt, and a clickable link, to the operator's own page. (Responses ship the real URLs — the official framework page, the Companies House record, the source of every claim — so your assistant links you straight to them.)

The co-pilot in action