US Federal Contracts Monitor: FPDS Awards & Vendor Watch (MCP)

Use this actor when you need to know which company just won which US federal contract, how much, from which agency — or to watch a vendor/keyword and get new-award alerts the day money moves. Official FPDS-NG public feed, keyless, MCP-ready.

Why FPDS beats scraping SAM.gov

FPDS-NG is the government's contract-award database of record (over 150k awards/month). Reddit GovCon threads keep asking "how do I track recompetes and expiring contracts without GovWin ($$$)?" — this feed is the answer nobody packages cleanly: LAST_MOD_DATE windows + vendor filters, parsed to typed rows and monitored daily.

What you get per row

PIID + transaction/mod numbers, vendor name + country, contracting agency / department / office, obligated amount, base+options full value, signed & completion dates, PSC code, action type (New / Delivery Order / Modification), official summary line, FPDS detail link.

Two modes

search — pull awards

{ "mode": "search", "term": "cybersecurity",
  "dateFrom": "2026-10-01", "maxResults": 10 }

Vendor-exact hunting: { "vendor": "PHACIL, INC." } (exact federal legal name). Windows via dateFrom/dateTo on last-modified.

monitor — money radar (daily)

{ "mode": "monitor", "watchQueries": ["cybersecurity", "vendor:BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC"] }

• Run 1 = free baseline (30-day window snapshot).
• Later runs emit only new-award rows (vendor + $ in the alert line).
• Schedule 1/daily — silence costs $0.001.

Recipes

1. Recompete radar — watch a big incumbent vendor; new awards & mods appear the day they're signed (competitive intel).
2. Gov-BD pipeline — keyword watch ("AI services", "language services") → Slack/email new-award feed.
3. Where the money went (journalism/research) — agency + PSC + dates → audit-type pulls.

Data honesty

Rows come from the official FPDS public feed at run time. FPDS delivery orders reuse base-award envelopes, so dedupe keys include transaction timestamps — that's why federal detail links have the same root. Amounts are as published by contracting offices.

Pricing

event	price
Actor start	$0.001
US contract award	$0.005 / row

Typical: 10-award search ≈ $0.051 · daily vendor watch ≈ $0.001–0.06 — vs GovWin/Tussell tiers in the hundreds-to-thousands per month.

MCP / AI-agent usage

https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_HANDLE~us-federal-contracts/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN