ca_procurement_commodities

Pack: ca-procurement · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ca-procurement/mcp

Rank what the State of California spends the most on, by commodity category (UNSPSC commodity title), from the SCPRS purchase-order data on data.ca.gov. Returns each category with total dollars and purchase-order count, largest first, optionally scoped to a department/agency or fiscal year. Answers “what does California buy the most of”, “top spending categories for the CA Department of Health Care Services”. This is CALIFORNIA STATE data (not federal).

Parameters

NameTypeRequiredDescription
departmentstringnoOptional: restrict to one awarding department/agency (case-insensitive substring).
fiscal_yearstringnoOptional exact fiscal year, e.g. “2014-2015”.
limitnumber,stringnoHow many categories to return (default 20, max 100).

Example call

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ca-procurement/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"ca_procurement_commodities","arguments":{}}}'

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ca-procurement": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ca-procurement/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

Regenerated from source · build July 21, 2026