US Federal Contract & Grant Leads (USASpending)

Find who just won a federal contract — and whose contract is about to expire. Scored, deduped, export-ready award leads from the public USASpending.gov data, built for GovCon business development, capture managers, and B2B teams selling to federal contractors.

Unofficial. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the U.S. Government or USASpending.gov. Data comes from the public USASpending.gov API — a U.S. Government open-data service in the public domain.

What this Actor does

You give it a filter (agency, NAICS, state, recipient, dollar floor). It pulls federal contract and grant awards from USASpending.gov, scores every award 0-10 for sales intent, dedupes, and hands you a clean table you can sort and export to CSV. No raw award dump — a finished lead list.

Each lead is tagged with a lead type that maps to a sales play:

• new_award — a contractor just won money. Fresh, funded, active account to sell into now.
• expiring_recompete — a contract ending soon. The highest-intent renewal/displacement lead in federal sales: the buyer is about to re-buy.

What data you get (federal contract award data)

Field	What it is
lead_score	0-10 sales-intent score (sort high → low)
lead_type	new_award or expiring_recompete
recipient	Awardee company name
award_amount	Contract/grant dollar value
agency	Awarding federal agency
naics_code	NAICS (contracts only)
start_date / end_date	Period of performance (drives recompete timing)
pop_state	Place-of-performance state
source_url	Direct link to the award on USASpending.gov

With enrich: true (top-scored leads only): mailing address, city, zip, uei, business_categories, named executives, parent_name.

Tutorial: pull your first GovCon lead list in 60 seconds

1. Hit Start with the defaults (federal contracts, awarded since Oct 2025). Defaults always return rows.
2. Open the Leads table, sort by lead_score (high → low), click Export CSV.
3. Narrow it: set states, naics (contracts only), recipientSearch, minAmount, or minScore.
4. Want addresses + executives? Set enrich: true to enrich the top-scored leads.

How much does it cost to scrape federal contract data?

Pay-per-event — you pay only for what you pull. No subscription, no monthly minimum.

• $0.01 to start a run + $0.005 per scored lead returned.
• A typical 500-lead default run ≈ $2.51. Pull 50 high-score leads with a tight filter ≈ $0.26.

Why it's pennies, not a $100/mo subscription: the source (USASpending.gov) is keyless, no rate limit, no proxy — there's no cost stack to pass on. You pay for the scoring + dedup + the finished list, not for data you could (painfully) assemble yourself.

Output example (one lead)

{
  "lead_score": 9,
  "lead_type": "expiring_recompete",
  "recipient": "HUMANA GOVERNMENT BUSINESS INC",
  "award_id": "HT940216C0001",
  "award_amount": 51269205263.03,
  "agency": "Department of Defense",
  "naics_code": "524114",
  "end_date": "2026-09-01",
  "pop_state": "KY",
  "source_url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HT940216C0001_..."
}

Who uses it

GovCon BD & capture teams · companies selling to federal prime contractors · market researchers · data resellers · recompete & expiring-contract trackers · federal grant lead sourcing.

FAQ

Is this SAM.gov / open RFPs? No. This returns awarded contracts and grants (who already won money) from USASpending.gov — not open solicitations. Use it to target funded accounts and time recompetes, not to find live bids.

Phone / email? Not included — USASpending publishes none, and we attach no contact PII (keeps it compliant and cheap). You get company name, mailing address (with enrich), agency, and the award page; do your own outreach.

Contracts vs grants? Pick awardTypes: A/B/C/D = contracts (carry NAICS); 02/03/04/05 = grants/assistance (carry CFDA, no NAICS). Don't mix in one run.

How fresh is it? USASpending updates continuously from federal source systems; we query live on every run. A built-in healthcheck pings the API before each run.

Billing? Pay-per-event — see pricing above. No subscription.

⚖️ Legal / usage

Data is US federal public spending data from the official USASpending.gov API (public domain, keyless, designed for programmatic access). No logins bypassed, no PII appended. You are responsible for lawful use of the leads (TCPA / CAN-SPAM and any agency-specific rules) in your outreach.

Support

Found an issue or a stale field? Open an issue on this Actor's page — single stable federal API means low breakage and fast fixes. Built and maintained by an AI-agent team.