SAM.gov Federal Contract Opportunities (No API Key)

Get every US federal contract opportunity posted on SAM.gov: solicitations, sources sought (RFIs), presolicitations, award notices and more, in one clean, flat format. Filter by keyword, NAICS, PSC, set-aside, agency, state and deadline, or turn on "only new notices" to get just what was posted since your last run.

No SAM.gov API key needed and no daily quota. A personal SAM.gov key allows only about 10 requests a day. This Actor instead reads SAM.gov's official public data extract, which covers every public opportunity, is refreshed nightly, and includes full descriptions.

What you can do with it

• Find contracts to bid on: open small-business IT solicitations in Virginia and Maryland, every morning.
• Track set-asides: all SDVOSB, 8(a), HUBZone or WOSB opportunities in your NAICS codes.
• Research the market: award notices show who won, when and for how much.
• Feed an AI agent, CRM or Slack channel with structured records that include deadlines and points of contact.

Quick start

Open small-business IT opportunities you can still respond to, posted in the last 7 days:

{
  "naicsCodes": ["5415"],
  "setAsides": ["SBA"],
  "onlyOpenForBids": true
}

Daily feed of new opportunities

Schedule this every morning. The first run returns everything that matches; after that, only new notices appear, and you only pay for those.

{
  "keywords": ["cybersecurity", "zero trust"],
  "noticeTypes": ["solicitation", "sources_sought"],
  "states": ["VA", "MD", "DC"],
  "postedWithinDays": 3,
  "onlyNewNotices": true,
  "stateKey": "dmv-cyber"
}

Input

Field	What it does
keywords	Whole-word match in the title and (by default) the full description.
naicsCodes	Industry codes; prefixes work (5415 matches 541511, 541512...).
pscCodes	Product/Service Codes; prefixes work (D3, R4, Y1...).
noticeTypes	solicitation, presolicitation, sources_sought, award, special, justification, other. Default: the first three (ones you can respond to).
setAsides	SBA, 8A, HZC, SDVOSBC, WOSB, EDWOSB, NONE and more.
agencies	Match department, sub-tier or office names, e.g. Army, Veterans Affairs.
states	Place-of-performance state codes.
postedWithinDays	Default 7. 0 reads the full history back to 2008.
onlyOpenForBids	Only notices whose response deadline hasn't passed.
includeDescription / includeContacts	Turn off for smaller output.
maxResults	Default 500.
onlyNewNotices / stateKey	Output only notices not returned in earlier runs under the same key.

Output

One record per notice, always with the same fields. Missing values are null.

{
  "id": "sam:de6f165e39cf4002a1405eef143fd63c",
  "noticeId": "de6f165e39cf4002a1405eef143fd63c",
  "title": "Y1DA--Drop Ceiling Demo, Disinfect and Replace at the Brooklyn VA Medical Center",
  "solicitationNumber": "36C24226Q0853_0",
  "noticeType": "Combined Synopsis/Solicitation",
  "baseType": "Combined Synopsis/Solicitation",
  "department": "VETERANS AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF",
  "subTier": "VETERANS AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF",
  "office": "242-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 02 (36C242)",
  "officeCode": "36C242",
  "postedAt": "2026-09-28T08:02:39",
  "responseDeadline": "2026-10-05T11:00:00-04:00",
  "archiveDate": "2026-11-30",
  "active": true,
  "setAside": { "code": "SDVOSBC", "name": "Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Set-Aside (FAR 19.14)" },
  "naicsCode": "236220",
  "pscCode": "Y1DA",
  "placeOfPerformance": { "street": "...800 Poly Place", "city": "Brooklyn", "state": "NY", "zip": "11209", "country": "USA" },
  "award": null,
  "primaryContact": { "title": "Contracting Officer", "name": "...", "email": "...@va.gov", "phone": null },
  "secondaryContact": null,
  "officeAddress": { "city": "ALBANY", "state": "NY", "zip": "12208", "country": "USA" },
  "url": "https://sam.gov/opp/de6f165e39cf4002a1405eef143fd63c/view",
  "additionalInfoLink": null,
  "description": "Amendment 0003... This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial products...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-29T12:00:00Z"
}

• award holds {number, date, amount, awardee} for award notices; amount is in US dollars.
• responseDeadline keeps the time zone SAM.gov publishes; postedAt has no time zone because SAM.gov doesn't give one.
• primaryContact and secondaryContact are the government points of contact published on the notice. Turn them off with includeContacts: false.

Each run also saves a RUN_SUMMARY record with how many notices were scanned, matched and output, plus the date window used.

Using it from an AI agent (MCP)

This Actor works as a tool in Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients through Apify's MCP server. For example: "Use SAM.gov Opportunities to find open SDVOSB construction solicitations in New York." Keep maxResults small and consider includeDescription: false for chat use.

Pricing

You pay per notice returned, with no monthly fee and no SAM.gov key. Set a maximum charge on any run and the Actor stops cleanly when it's reached.

Good to know

• SAM.gov refreshes the extract once a night (about 03:30 UTC), so notices posted today appear the next morning. For a same-day feed, run the Actor after 04:00 UTC.
• Attachments (PDFs) aren't included. Use each notice's url to open them on SAM.gov.
• A few old notices mix text encodings; the Actor repairs the common cases.

Data source

Data comes from SAM.gov's public Contract Opportunities data extract, published by the U.S. General Services Administration. US federal government data is public. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by GSA or SAM.gov.

Support

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