🏛️ USAspending Government Contracts Intelligence — Federal Contracts, Grants & Recipient Data

Extract federal government contracts, grants, loans and spending data straight from USAspending.gov — every award with the recipient, awarding agency, dollar amount, dates, location and industry codes, plus an AI opportunity score (0–100) on each one. It's the official record of where federal money goes, turned into clean, structured rows you can actually work with — no scraping, no API key, no fighting with raw government JSON. Export to JSON/CSV/Excel, run on a schedule, call via API, or connect to Make, Zapier or n8n.

🏛️ What is the USAspending Government Contracts Intelligence?

It turns the USAspending.gov database into a searchable dataset of federal awards. Give it a few keywords (and optional filters for agency, recipient, state, date range, amount or NAICS/PSC codes) and it returns every matching contract or grant with full details and an opportunity score that ranks the most pursuit-worthy awards first — so contractors, business development teams, consultants, journalists and researchers can find the right opportunities without crawling through government portals by hand. A second mode looks up recipients (companies and organizations) and their total award amounts.

What data does it extract?

• Award ID, recipient name and award amount (plus total obligation)
• Awarding & funding agency for every award
• Description of the work, and the award type (contract, grant, loan, etc.)
• Start & end dates and period-of-performance dates
• Recipient location (city, state) and UEI / DUNS identifiers
• NAICS & PSC codes with their descriptions (industry classification)
• AI opportunity score (0–100), an opportunity label and a list of insights
• Recipients mode: company name, UEI, recipient level and total award amount

⬇️ Input

Run it two ways — search awards with filters, or look up recipients by keyword:

Field	Description
mode	awards (contracts/grants) or recipients (companies)
keywords	Search terms for awards, e.g. software, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence
keyword	Recipient name to look up (used in recipients mode), e.g. Microsoft
awardType	all, contract, grant, loan, direct_payment or other
agency	Awarding agency, e.g. Department of Defense
recipient	Filter by recipient / contractor name
state	Recipient state, 2-letter code, e.g. CA, TX, NY
dateFrom / dateTo	Date range, YYYY-MM-DD (data starts 2007-10-01)
minAmount / maxAmount	Award amount range in USD
naicsCodes / pscCodes	Filter by industry (NAICS) or product/service (PSC) codes
sortField / sortOrder	Sort by Award Amount, Start/End Date or Recipient Name; desc or asc
maxResults	Cap the run (1–10,000)
delaySeconds	Delay between requests to respect rate limits (0.1–5.0s)

Example input

{
  "mode": "awards",
  "keywords": ["artificial intelligence", "machine learning"],
  "awardType": "contract",
  "agency": "Department of Defense",
  "dateFrom": "2024-01-01",
  "minAmount": 100000,
  "sortField": "Award Amount",
  "sortOrder": "desc",
  "maxResults": 100
}

⬆️ Output

Every award is one clean row (view as a table, or export JSON / CSV / Excel):

{
  "award_id": "W91ZRU24P0012",
  "recipient_name": "MICROSOFT CORPORATION",
  "award_amount": 1500000.0,
  "total_obligation": 1500000.0,
  "awarding_agency": "Department of Defense",
  "funding_agency": "Department of Defense",
  "description": "Cloud infrastructure modernization and data analytics services",
  "award_type": "contract",
  "start_date": "2024-01-15",
  "end_date": "2025-01-14",
  "period_of_performance_start": "2024-01-15",
  "period_of_performance_end": "2025-01-14",
  "recipient_state": "WA",
  "recipient_city": "REDMOND",
  "recipient_uei": "FMVPEWNJGLM1",
  "naics_code": "541512",
  "naics_description": "Computer Systems Design Services",
  "psc_code": "D399",
  "psc_description": "IT AND TELECOM- OTHER IT AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS",
  "opportunity_score": 85,
  "opportunity_label": "High Value",
  "insights": [
    "Significant value ($1M+)",
    "Cloud related",
    "Defense sector opportunity",
    "IT services category"
  ]
}

In recipients mode each row is a company with its total award amount:

{
  "id": "dd77b7c3-663e-cb91-229f-5766a50e9b7f-P",
  "name": "MICROSOFT CORPORATION",
  "uei": "FMVPEWNJGLM1",
  "recipient_level": "P",
  "total_amount": 381132752.31
}

💡 Use cases

• 🎯 Government contractors — find opportunities: surface new contracts and grants in your niche, sorted by an opportunity score, and see which agencies are spending on what you sell.
• 📈 Business development — track competitors: look up any contractor in recipients mode to see total federal dollars won, then dig into their individual awards.
• 📰 Journalists & watchdogs — follow the money: investigate agency spending, big-ticket awards and contractor relationships with sourced, structured records.
• 🔬 Researchers & analysts — procurement trends: analyze federal spending by agency, industry (NAICS/PSC), state or year for policy and market research.

🧮 How the opportunity score works

A transparent 0–100 score combining award amount (up to 40 pts), high-value technology keywords in the description like AI, cloud and cybersecurity (up to 30 pts), the awarding agency — high-spend agencies such as DoD, HHS and VA score higher (up to 20 pts) — and the award type (up to 10 pts). Each award also gets a label: High Value (80–100), Promising (60–79), Moderate (40–59), Low Value (20–39) or Minimal (0–19), so you can sort and pursue the strongest opportunities first.

❓ FAQ

How do I search federal contracts and grants? Pick awards mode, add a few keywords and any filters you like (agency, state, date range, amount, NAICS/PSC), then Run. You get structured awards with recipient, amount, agency, dates and an opportunity score.

Can I look up a specific contractor's total federal awards? Yes — switch to recipients mode and set keyword to the company name. Each result includes the recipient's UEI and total award amount.

Do I need an API key? No. The actor uses the official, free USAspending.gov API, which requires no authentication or login — just set your filters and Run.

What's the difference between contracts, grants and loans? Use awardType to choose: contract (paid work/services), grant (funding), loan, direct_payment or other. Pick all to default to contracts.

How far back does the data go? Federal award data is available from October 1, 2007 onward. Use dateFrom and dateTo to set any range within that window.

What are NAICS and PSC codes? NAICS codes classify the recipient's industry and PSC codes classify the product or service purchased. Pass them in naicsCodes / pscCodes to filter to a specific sector.

How many awards can it return? Up to your maxResults cap (1–10,000); it paginates through the API automatically and respects the rate limit via delaySeconds.

Can I run it on a schedule or via API? Yes — schedule recurring runs in Apify, call it via the API/SDK, or connect it to Make, Zapier or n8n to refresh your pipeline automatically.

Is this legal? Yes. USAspending.gov is the official U.S. government source of public federal spending data, published by the Treasury Department for transparency. Use it responsibly and follow applicable laws.

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