🇺🇸 USAspending — US Federal Contracts, Grants & Awards (MCP)

Every US federal award on USAspending.gov — contracts, grants, loans — with recipient, amount, description, NAICS/PSC codes and place of performance. No API key, no account, no proxy: the official open-data portal, delivered clean. Built for gov-contract sales teams, market researchers, journalists and AI agents (MCP-ready).

• 🎯 Hard-to-get data — award descriptions, recipient UEI, option/ceiling values, sub-award counts, IDV parents, congress district
• 🔔 Monitor mode — daily schedule returns only NEW awards: "who won which US government contract today"
• 🤖 Zero setup — official USAspending REST API, no key, handles rate limits & pagination walls for you
• 💸 ($0.001 + $0.8/1 000) — among the cheapest clean GovCon data sources in the Store

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✨ Why this Actor and not the USAspending UI?

	USAspending site	This Actor
Get one recipient's recent awards	click-through UI, export CSV manually	one run, all filters
Monitor new DoD/VA/NASA awards daily	not possible	monitor mode + schedule
Awards matching NAICS + amount + state	hidden filters	first-class inputs
Search deeper than the 10k page wall	impossible	automatic period splitting
Feed to Sheets / CRM / AI agents	CSV download	native integration + MCP

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🚀 Quick start

1. Choose the scope: contracts (default), grants, loans, all.
2. Set filters — agencies, NAICS codes, keywords, states, amounts, dates.
3. Hit Start → rows in JSON, CSV, Excel.

{
  "piid": "W912DQ25F3060",
  "awardType": "DEFINITIVE CONTRACT",
  "recipientName": "JACOBS GOVERNMENT SERVICES COMPANY",
  "recipientUei": "HDMBNDVCLYJ7",
  "amount": 6350136.96,
  "awardingAgency": "Department of Defense",
  "description": "RIFS AT CASCADES ISLAND",
  "dateSigned": "2025-09-17",
  "naicsCode": "5413",
  "naicsTitle": "Engineering Services",
  "popCity": "NORTH BONNEVILLE",
  "popState": "WA",
  "popCongressional": "03",
  "awardUrl": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/353624309",
  "isNew": false
}

🔔 Monitor mode — the daily GovCon lead list

Set mode = monitor, then schedule the actor daily (Apify schedules + email/Slack webhook). It remembers every award ID it has seen (persistent key-value store) and returns only the new federal awards: perfect to spot a competitor's win or a new contract in your NAICS steel — before the RFP even goes out.

🤖 Built for AI agents (MCP)

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=amygraphics/usaspending-awards-scraper

"Which companies won VA contracts above $500k in Washington state last month?" — your agent answers with real rows.

📥 Inputs

Field	Type	Default	Meaning
mode	enum	search	search · monitor (only NEW awards)
scope	enum	contracts	contracts, grants, loans, other, all
timeFrom / timeTo	date	rolling 7 d	Award signature window
daysBack	int	7	When no start date: rolling window
keywords	list	—	Free text on descriptions
agencies	list	—	Top-tier awarders (DoD, VA, HHS, NASA…)
recipientSearch	string	—	Prime contractor / grantee name
naicsCodes / pscCodes	lists	—	Industry (541511…) + product/service (D301…)
states	list	—	Where the work happens (WA, TX, DC…)
awardMin / awardMax	number	—	Amount bounds (USD)
maxResults / maxPages	int	200 / 40	Volume guards (deep scans split automatically)
includeDetails	bool	false	Add descrip/UEI/options/subawards per award
maxDetails	int	50	Details budget guard

💸 Price

$0.001 to start + $0.0008 per award (award-extracted) = $0.8 per 1 000 awards. Detail enrichment adds one extra API request per enriched award (no extra charge).

🟩 Data source

All data comes from USAspending.gov — the official US government open-data portal (Transparency Act / DATA Act). No authentication needed: we fetch the public JSON API, page properly, retry rate limits, and split long windows so big surveys complete cleanly.

🌐 Keywords

usaspending, government contracts, federal contracts, federal awards, sam.gov awards, DoD contracts, VA contracts, NASA contracts, federal grants, federal loans, govcon data, GSA schedule, prime contractor awards, spending data, NAICS 541511, public procurement USA, award monitoring, MCP, AI agents

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Built by AmyGraphics — tested live before publishing. Questions welcome, honest answers only.