MCP Server

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Overview

• Claude Desktop (stdio) — runs locally using your Developer or Pro API key; available on Developer and Pro plans

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Getting Started

cd /path/to/NorthAxiumData/api
pip install -r requirements.txt

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "northaxium-data": {
      "command": "python3",
      "args": ["-m", "mcp_server.server"],
      "cwd": "/absolute/path/to/NorthAxiumData/api",
      "env": {
        "NORTHAXIUM_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "northaxium-data": {
      "command": "python3",
      "args": ["-m", "mcp_server.server"],
      "cwd": "/absolute/path/to/NorthAxiumData/api",
      "env": {
        "NORTHAXIUM_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

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MCP Tools

• search_contracts — Search federal contracts by vendor, department, value range, and date. Returns paginated contract records from CanadaBuys and TBS.
• search_vendors — Browse distinct vendor name strings to resolve ambiguous vendor names before profiling. Use before get_vendor_profile.
• get_vendor_profile — Aggregated procurement profile for a named vendor: total contract value, top departments, contract count, and recent awards.
• get_department_profile — Aggregated procurement profile for a federal department: total spend, top vendors, and event type breakdown.
• search_tenders — Search federal tender notices — open and historical solicitations published on CanadaBuys. Use to find active procurement opportunities or to retrieve a solicitation_number for lifecycle tracing.
• search_awards — Search federal award notices — announcements of intent to award a contract. Useful for early signal on who won a competition before the final contract is signed.
• get_procurement_lifecycle — Return the full procurement lifecycle for a solicitation number: the tender, award notices, and awarded contracts all linked together. Use when you have a solicitation_number and want to trace the complete chain.

• search_grants — Search across three grant datasets. Specify dataset: federal_grants (TBS), research_grants (NSERC/SSHRC), or infrastructure_projects (Infrastructure Canada).
• search_grant_recipients — Browse distinct recipient name strings to resolve ambiguous institution names before profiling. Use before get_grant_recipient_profile.
• get_grant_recipient_profile — Aggregated grants profile for a recipient: total value received, top funding departments, and recent grants.

• search_lobbying — Search lobbying registrations — what organizations are registered to lobby, on what subjects, and targeting which institutions.
• get_lobbying_communications — Search actual communication records: who lobbyists met with, when, and on what subject.
• get_client_profile — Aggregated lobbying profile for a client organization: total communication count, top institutions lobbied, and top subject areas.

• search_contributions — Search Elections Canada reviewed political contributions by contributor name, party, year, province, and monetary amount.

• search_bills — Search parliamentary bills by keyword, session, status, sponsor, and sector tag.
• search_politicians — Search current and historical MPs. Use to resolve a name to its slug before calling get_politician_profile.
• get_politician_profile — Full politician profile: election history, committee memberships, lobbying interactions as a designated public office holder (DPOH), and bill sponsorships.

• search_permits — Search building permits across 17 Canadian municipalities. Supports proximity search by latitude, longitude, and radius in kilometres.

• lookup_zone — Look up the zoning classification at a lat/lng coordinate. Returns zone code, zone description, zone category, municipality, and province. Available for: toronto, calgary, edmonton, vancouver, winnipeg, ottawa, mississauga, kitchener, hamilton, quebec_city.

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Authentication

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Example Usage

• “What has Palantir lobbied for in Canada?”
• “Who are the top vendors for the Department of National Defence by contract value?”
• “What federal contracts has Shopify won?”
• “Find all new construction permits in Calgary over $1M issued in the last year”
• “What zone is 123 King Street West in Toronto?”
• “Which companies are lobbying most actively on mining and natural resources?”
• “Show me Mark Carney’s lobbying interactions as a DPOH before he entered politics”
• “How much has the University of Toronto received in NSERC grants over the last 10 years?”
• “Compare lobbying activity for the top three defence contractors”