US Federal Spending: Contracts & Grants Search (MCP)
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US Federal Spending: Contracts & Grants Search (MCP)
Official USAspending API for AI agents: search awarded US federal contracts and grants by keyword, recipient or agency with amounts and dates, and monitor topics for new awards alerts. No key. MCP-ready.
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The official USAspending API — every federal contract and grant awarded, with the dollar amounts. Search by keyword, recipient or agency; monitor topics or companies and get new-award alerts as money moves. No key. MCP-compatible, agent-ready.
Why it's a top vertical
Government BD teams, suppliers, analysts, consultants and journalists live in this data: "who won this contract?", "how much did X get from DoD this year?", "when did grant money reach our city?". Existing tools are scraper UX without monitors — this actor is the official API, keyless, typed, with a daily alert mode.
What you get per row
PIID/FAIN award ID, recipient, award amount in USD, awarding agency/sub-agency, funding agency, start/end dates, award description (cleaned), USAspending link to the official award page.
Two modes
search — research awarded money
{ "mode": "search", "term": "cloud services", "awardTypes": "contracts","dateFrom": "2025-01-01", "maxResults": 10 }
Combine filters freely: recipient: "LOCKHEED MARTIN", agency: "Department of Defense", types (contracts, grants, loans, direct_payments, other, all).
monitor — money radar
{ "mode": "monitor","watchQueries": ["cybersecurity", "recipient:BOOZ ALLEN"] }
- Run 1 = free baseline — snapshots award IDs (60-day window).
- Run 2+ emits only
new-awardrows for fresh awards since. - Schedule daily; silence = $0.001.
Recipes
- Competitive intelligence — watch
recipient:Competitordaily; first to know when they win federal money. - BD hunting — "cloud services" + FY2026 filters → target agencies by amount.
- Civic/press: grant flows into a state or city, quotes with official record links.
Data honesty
All rows from usaspending.gov at run time. Amounts are as published (may be estimated for some grants types); internalId + PIID kept for exact dedup.
Pricing
| event | price |
|---|---|
| Actor start | $0.001 |
| US award | $0.001 / row |
Typical: 10-row search ≈ $0.011 · daily monitor ≈ $0.001–0.01.
MCP / AI-agent usage
https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_HANDLE~us-government-spending/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN