USAspending Scraper: Federal Contract Awards Feed

USAspending Scraper: Federal Contract Awards Feed (No API Key)

See who just won which US federal contract, every morning, without a spreadsheet hunt.

This Actor reads new federal prime contract awards from USAspending public data and hands you a clean, filtered list: the winner, the amount, the agency, what was bought (NAICS and PSC), the set-aside, where the work happens and a link to the full award record. No API key, no login, no browser.

Run it on a daily schedule with Only new since last run switched on and it becomes a competitor and market watch feed: each award shows up once, the day it appears.

Quick start

Press Start with the prefilled input (IT and computer systems design awards, NAICS 5415, from the last 14 days, up to 50 results, delta mode off so you always see data). You get a table of winners, amounts and agencies in seconds. Then add your NAICS code, competitor names and states, and schedule it daily with Only new since last run switched on.

What people use it for

• Competitor tracking: put your rivals' names in Recipient / competitor names and get every new award they win.
• Market intelligence: watch your NAICS or PSC codes to see which agencies are buying, how much, and from whom.
• Teaming and subcontracting leads: a fresh prime award is the best moment to pitch the winner your services.
• Pricing benchmarks: compare award values for similar work across agencies.
• Pipeline research: pair it with our Federal Contract Opportunities Feed (open solicitations) to follow a requirement from notice to winner.

Sample output

{
  "awardId": "47QFMA26F0006",
  "awardType": "BPA CALL",
  "description": "DEHRADS ORDER 6 CYBERSECURITY, PRIVACY, RECORDS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ...",
  "recipientName": "CLEARAVENUE LLC",
  "recipientUei": "TZJXKXNHDLX1",
  "recipientWithheldReason": null,
  "amountUsd": 13334355.2,
  "baseObligationDate": "2026-07-24",
  "startDate": "2026-08-27",
  "endDate": "2027-08-26",
  "awardingAgency": "General Services Administration",
  "awardingSubAgency": "Federal Acquisition Service",
  "fundingAgency": "Department of Defense",
  "naicsCode": "541519",
  "naicsDescription": "OTHER COMPUTER RELATED SERVICES",
  "pscCode": "DJ01",
  "pscDescription": "IT AND TELECOM - SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE SUPPORT SERVICES (LABOR)",
  "placeOfPerformanceState": "CA",
  "awardUrl": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_47QFMA26F0006_4732_47QFMA24A0005_4732"
}

The table view in the Console shows winner, amount, agency, description, NAICS, PSC, dates and a link.

Inputs

Input	What it does
Keywords	Any of these words in the award text (3+ characters each)
NAICS codes	2–6 digit codes; short codes include sub-codes
PSC codes	Product/Service Codes or prefixes (D, DJ, DJ01)
Awarding agencies	Exact top-tier names, e.g. Department of Veterans Affairs
Recipient / competitor names	Track specific companies
Place of performance states	VA, TX, CA ...
Set-aside codes	SBA, 8A, HZC, SDVOSBC, WOSB, EDWOSB, NONE ...
Award types	Contracts A–D (default) or contract vehicles (IDVs)
Minimum / maximum amount	Award amount band in USD
Look back N days	Window ending today (1–365, default 7)
New awards only	On: awards first made in the window. Off: any award with activity (e.g. a modification)
Sort by	Newest, largest or recently modified
Only new since last run	Each award delivered once per filter set
Max results	Up to 5,000 per run

Bad input (an unknown state, a malformed NAICS code) stops the run straight away with a plain message, so you are not charged for a run that could never work.

Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription:

Event	Price
Run started	$0.005
Award delivered	$0.002 ($2 per 1,000)

Example	Awards	Cost
First try with the prefilled input	50	$0.105
Daily competitor watch (only new awards)	about 20 a day	about $0.045 a day
One-off market study, one NAICS code, 90 days	1,000	$2.005
Large export	5,000	$10.005

Set Maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

FAQ

Do I need a USAspending or SAM.gov API key? No. The Actor uses the public USAspending API.

Can I see only awards my competitors won? Yes: put their names in Recipient / competitor names, schedule daily, keep Only new since last run on.

Can I get open bids, not awards? Use our SAM.gov Scraper: Federal Contract Opportunities Feed to find solicitations, and this Actor to see who won.

Why is an award amount $0? Contract vehicles (IDVs) obligate money on the orders placed under them.

Can I export to Excel, CSV or Google Sheets? Yes, every dataset exports as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, and works with Zapier, Make and webhooks.

Good to know

• Reporting lag. Agencies report awards to the federal procurement system, which feeds USAspending, usually within days. The Department of Defense publishes contract data with a 90-day delay, so recent DoD awards show up later.
• Keyword matching on awards from the last few days can lag behind the award itself; NAICS, PSC, agency and recipient filters pick awards up as soon as they are published.
• Amounts are the obligated award amount as USAspending reports it; IDVs often show $0 because money is obligated on the orders placed under them.
• Withheld winners. To protect private individuals, recipient names that look like a person (sole proprietors) are withheld along with their UEI. Recipient names on awards first made before 4 April 2022 are also withheld, in line with the Dun & Bradstreet data-use limits. recipientWithheldReason says why. Recipient street addresses are never collected.
• Delta mode state lives in a named key-value store in your own Apify account. Change any filter and the Actor treats it as a new watch list.
• Run summary: every run writes RUN_SUMMARY (awards read, delivered, skipped, withheld) to its key-value store.

Data source and attribution

Data: USAspending.gov API v2, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service. USAspending data may be copied and reused for commercial purposes, subject to the Limitation on Permissible Use of Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. Data (https://www.usaspending.gov/db_info). Recipient business names may include data supplied by Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. (D&B). This Actor is a filtered alert feed and is not a substitute for D&B products.

This is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov or any other government agency.