Ask MMT · Sources
What Ask MMT reads.
Ask MMT answers from the sources below and nothing else. If the answer is not in these systems, it tells you it does not know. Every answer lists which of these it used.
This table is generated at build time from the same source list the assistant runs, so it cannot say one thing while the code does another. Live means queried the moment you ask. Index means the MMT archive, re-indexed on every site build. Conditional means the client is wired but returns nothing until a credential or input it needs exists; those are listed so you know they will not be cited yet. Fallback means a web search of federal sites only, run when the structured sources return nothing, or when SAM.gov or USASpending could not be reached on a contract question; the answer labels those results as leads to verify. Systems that only matter for some questions (research, grants, hiring, rules, adoption data) are queried when the question calls for them, and a system that was not queried is never listed as a source.
| Source | How | What it provides | How Ask MMT uses it |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMT article archive | Index | Every published MMT analysis, Friday brief, monthly brief, Contract Tracker note, and IDIQ analyst note | Context: what Mary has already worked out about the vehicle, agency, or program. Cited by article, with the link. |
| MMT market-entry reference | Index | Federal health buyers, buying routes, vehicle ordering status, security authorization paths (FedRAMP, CMS Rapid Cloud Review, DoD impact levels, VA, ONC, GovRAMP, TX-RAMP, MARS-E), the 56 state Medicaid agencies with the federal funding and certification rules, innovation doors and compliance rules. Hand-maintained, each record dated and sourced | The dated baseline for a market-entry question, cited with its verified date; a field it marks not yet covered is unknown, never zero. Queried for market-entry questions: state Medicaid programs and funding rules, security authorization paths, innovation doors, compliance rules and buying routes. |
| USASpending.gov | Live query | Federal obligations, awards, recipients, spending by agency and NAICS | Who won what, for how much, and how the money has moved |
| SAM.gov OpportunitiesSAM.gov limits this key to a small number of queries a day, kept for subscriber questions. When the day's quota is spent the answer says so and the federal web search covers solicitations. | Live query | Active solicitations, sources sought, RFIs, presolicitations, award notices | Solicitation status, response deadlines, set-aside and NAICS details |
| Federal Register | Live query | Rules, proposed rules, and notices from federal agencies | Regulatory actions that change a program or a requirement |
| GAO reportsgao.gov blocks search from servers, so Ask MMT reads GAO's published-reports feed (the latest 25 reports) and matches the question against it. Older reports are not searched. | Live query | The Government Accountability Office's most recent published reports | Oversight findings on a program, an acquisition, or an agency |
| Congress.gov | Live query | Bills, NDAA text, appropriations, committee activity | Statutory language, funding direction, policy history |
| GovInfo | Live query | Budget justification books, public laws, Congressional Record, hearings | The budget exhibit or the enacted text behind a funding claim |
| PubMed | Live query | Peer-reviewed clinical and health services research | Evidence behind a technical approach or a program claim. Queried for research questions. |
| ClinicalTrials.gov | Live query | Registered clinical studies and sponsors | Active research tied to a program, a condition, or a sponsor. Queried for research questions. |
| Grants.gov | Live query | Federal grant opportunities | Grant-funded work adjacent to a contract opportunity. Queried for grant questions. |
| SAM.gov Assistance ListingsThe listings API has no keyword search. Ask MMT pulls the department's active listings once a day and matches the question against them. Shares the SAM.gov daily quota. | Live query | Catalog of federal assistance programs (formerly CFDA) | The program authority behind a grant or cooperative agreement. Queried for grant questions. |
| USAJOBSNeeds a free USAJOBS developer key (developer.usajobs.gov). Until USAJOBS_API_KEY and USAJOBS_USER_EMAIL are set the client returns nothing, so it is listed here rather than cited. | Conditional | Open federal job announcements | Hiring signals that show where an office is building capacity. Queried for hiring and staffing questions. |
| Federal IT Dashboarditdashboard.gov says OMB is taking steps to sunset the site and that, effective April 2026, agency reporting narrows to statutorily required data (read 2026-09-14). Its public API was retired earlier (every /api path returns 404), so nothing can be queried at question time. Listed so you know it will not be cited. | Conditional | Agency IT investment portfolios and CIO ratings | The investment line and its rating behind an IT program |
| CMS provider data | Live query | Medicare and Medicaid provider, utilization, and program datasets | CMS program facts and provider-level context |
| ONC Health IT data | Live query | Health IT adoption, interoperability, and certification statistics | Adoption and interoperability numbers behind a health IT claim. Queried for health IT adoption and interoperability questions. |
| ONC CHPLRead with MMT's registered CHPL API key (set 2026-09-14). If the key is ever removed the client reports the system as not reached rather than answering from memory. | Live query | Certified Health IT Product List | Whether a product and edition are certified, and for what criteria |
| HHS open data | Live query | HHS datasets from the healthdata.gov catalog (CDC, FDA, NIH, HRSA, CMS, and the Office of the CDO) | Program-level data behind an HHS question. Queried for data and research questions. |
| eCFR | Live query | Code of Federal Regulations, including the FAR, DFARS, and HIPAA | The regulation text behind a compliance or contracting question. Queried for policy and rule questions, and questions with no other signal. |
| Regulations.gov | Live query | Rulemaking dockets and open comment periods | Where a rule sits and whether the comment window is open. Queried for policy and rule questions, and questions with no other signal. |
| Bureau of Labor Statistics | Live query | Wage and employment statistics by occupation and area | Labor-rate context for a pricing or staffing question |
| SAM.gov Wage Determinations | Live query | Service Contract Act and Davis-Bacon wage determinations | The wage floor that applies to a service contract |
| GSA CALC+ labor ratesGSA is migrating CALC to IGCE. The client is wired but returns no data until GSA publishes the new endpoint. | Conditional | Awarded GSA schedule labor rates | Comparable awarded rates for a labor category |
| SAM.gov Contract AwardsThe FPDS replacement. Requires a SAM.gov system account key; returns nothing until that key is provisioned. | Conditional | Contract award records (the former FPDS data) | Award-level detail once the system account is approved |
| SEC EDGARQueried only when a question names a public company. Most federal health IT questions do not. | Conditional | Public-company filings | What a public competitor has told its investors about a contract |
| Web search of federal sitesRuns when USASpending, SAM.gov Opportunities and the contract-award client all return nothing for the question, or when SAM.gov or USASpending could not be reached on a contract, vehicle or budget question. Restricted to .gov and .mil domains (sam.gov, usaspending.gov, health.mil, va.gov, hhs.gov, cms.gov, medicaid.gov, gsa.gov, gao.gov, congress.gov, govinfo.gov, federalregister.gov, acquisition.gov, fedramp.gov, sbir.gov, nih.gov, arpa-h.gov, healthit.gov, hrsa.gov, cdc.gov, fda.gov, ihs.gov, samhsa.gov, defense.gov, cyber.mil). | Fallback | Pages on federal sites the structured APIs did not surface | A lead when the structured sources are silent, labeled as a web-search lead in the answer, never a primary citation |
Scope note. Ask MMT pulls federal data by agency. When the APIs return thin results for a question, the answer is labeled "limited API data" so you know to go to the primary source yourself.
When a system does not answer. SAM.gov limits this key to a small number of queries a day, and any API can time out. When that happens the answer says which system was not reached this turn, instead of treating silence as "no such record exists". When SAM.gov is out of quota on a contract question, the federal web search runs in its place and its results are labeled as leads. Every acronym the answer expands comes from the MMT glossary or a source; anything else is written exactly as the source wrote it.
Not on this list: the MMT Newswire (ten feeds refreshed every four hours) and the Opportunity Radar. Those are separate surfaces on the site; the assistant does not read them when it answers.
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