Federal Bids & Subcontracting Leads by NAICS

Federal Bids & Subcontracting Leads by NAICS finds federal work for a small contractor in one run. You give it your NAICS codes and certifications. It returns:

• the open SAM.gov bids you can actually respond to
• the prime contractors winning in your codes, and whether they must subcontract to small businesses
• teaming partners: firms winning the same set-asides you hold
• contracts ending soon
• subcontracting posts from SBA SubNet

All of it comes from official public data. You don't need a SAM.gov API key or an account.

What it does

Give it your NAICS codes, such as 541512 or 5415 for the whole group, and the certifications you hold. You get:

• Open bids you can respond to. Every open SAM.gov solicitation, combined synopsis, presolicitation and sources sought in your codes, from SAM.gov's nightly file of all active notices.
  • Each is marked eligible or not for your certifications: an SDVOSB sees SDVOSB, VA veteran-owned and small-business set-asides, and no 8(a) or HUBZone ones.
  • Amendments are folded into one row per solicitation.
  • Each row has the contracting officer's name, email and phone, and is flagged when it mentions a security clearance.
• Primes to approach. The large businesses winning the most in your codes, from USAspending. Each shows the FPDS subcontracting plan code on its largest award. A plan means FAR 19.702 requires the prime to subcontract to small businesses, which makes those primes the ones to pitch.
• Teaming partners. The firms winning the set-asides you hold, in your codes.
• Contracts ending soon. Contracts in your codes whose end date falls in the next months, largest first, with the incumbent named. Each is a recompete to prepare for, or a company to team with.
• Subcontracting posts. Open SBA SubNet posts from primes looking for subcontractors in your codes.
• What's new. Every row says whether it's new since the last run. Turn on "Only what's new" and schedule it daily to get just the new bids, charged only for those.
• A summary. A plain-English run summary on the Output tab: set-asides you hold, bids due soonest, primes with plans, contracts ending and what was left out.

Here's what four rows look like:

type	title or company	detail	due or ends	eligible or plan
opportunity	Network Operations Support Services	SDVOSB set-aside, NAICS 541512, Dept of the Army	due in 18 days	eligible
opportunity	Cloud Migration Sources Sought	No set-aside, NAICS 541519, Dept of Veterans Affairs	due in 9 days	eligible
prime	Example Federal Systems Inc	$74.6M in your codes, 60 awards		Individual subcontract plan
expiring-contract	Example Data Corp	$12.4M with Defense Health Agency, NAICS 541512	ends 2027-04-30

(Example data.)

Who it's for

• Small businesses new to federal work. See which bids fit your codes and certifications without learning SAM.gov's search screens.
• Veteran-owned, women-owned, 8(a) and HUBZone firms. The eligibility check reads every set-aside, not just one type at a time.
• Firms that want to subcontract first. The primes, teaming partners and SubNet posts sections are built for finding a prime to work under.
• Business development consultants and APEX advisors. Run it per client and hand them the spreadsheet.
• AI agents and automations. Fixed fields, no API key, and it works through the Apify MCP server.

Input

Field	What it does	Default
NAICS codes	Your codes: 6 digits, or 4 or 2 digits for a whole group. Up to 20.	none
Certifications you hold	Small business, 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, VOSB, WOSB, EDWOSB. Decides which set-asides you can respond to.	none
What to find	Open bids, primes and teaming partners, contracts ending soon, subcontracting posts.	all four
Which bids	Bids you can respond to, only set-asides you hold, or all bids.	Bids I can respond to
Place of performance states	Two-letter codes. Empty means nationwide, which suits remote work.	nationwide
Keep bids with no place of performance	About 65% of notices give none. Off: keep them only when the contracting office is in your states.	on
Notice types	Solicitation, Combined Synopsis/Solicitation, Presolicitation, Sources Sought, Special Notice, Award Notice.	the first four
Posted or amended within (days)	Leave out notices with no activity in this many days.	90
Minimum days to respond	Leave out bids due sooner than this.	3
Also find these words	Also include bids and posts with these words, whatever their NAICS code.	none
Leave out these words	Leave out bids and posts with these words.	none
Leave out architect-engineer work	Leave out A-E design work (PSC C codes), common under 541330.	on
Services only	Leave out product buys (PSC codes starting with a digit).	off
Leave out bids that mention a clearance	Leave out bids that mention Secret, TS/SCI, a SCIF or a polygraph.	off
Award states	Limit primes, teaming partners and expiring contracts to work in these states.	nationwide
Award agencies	Limit them to these agencies.	all
Award lookback (months)	The window for ranking primes.	12
Maximum primes per list	Primes to profile, and as many teaming partners.	15
Prime size	Other than small (the ones that hold subcontracting plans), or all.	Other than small
Find teaming partners	Also list firms winning the set-asides you hold.	on
Contracts ending within (months)	The window for expiring contracts.	12
Minimum contract value (USD)	Leave out smaller expiring contracts.	100,000
Maximum expiring contracts	How many to list, largest first.	100
Only what's new since the last run	Leave out rows the last run of the same codes already returned.	off
Maximum rows per section	A ceiling per section.	500

Input field names in the API: naicsCodes, certifications, sections, setAsideFilter, states, includeNoStateListed, noticeTypes, postedWithinDays, minDaysToRespond, keywords, excludeKeywords, excludeArchitectEngineer, servicesOnly, excludeClearanceRequired, awardStates, awardAgencies, awardLookbackMonths, maxPrimes, primeSize, includeSetAsidePeers, expiringWithinMonths, expiringMinAmount, maxExpiringContracts, onlyNew, maxResultsPerSection.

Values:

• Certifications: small, 8a, hubzone, sdvosb, vosb, wosb, edwosb.
• Sections: opportunities, primes, expiringContracts, subcontractingPosts.
• Notice types: solicitation, combined, presolicitation, sourcesSought, specialNotice, award.

Expiring contracts need award states or award agencies. Nationwide, most codes have tens of thousands of contracts.

Example input: an SDVOSB IT firm that works remotely, with primes and expiring contracts in Texas:

{
  "naicsCodes": ["541512", "541519", "541511"],
  "certifications": ["sdvosb", "vosb"],
  "servicesOnly": true,
  "awardStates": ["TX"]
}

Daily monitoring of new bids only:

{
  "naicsCodes": ["541512", "541519", "541511"],
  "certifications": ["sdvosb"],
  "sections": ["opportunities", "subcontractingPosts"],
  "onlyNew": true
}

Output

One dataset with a type on every row. The Output tab has a Summary and one table per type. Export it from the Console as CSV, JSON, Excel, XML or HTML, or read it through the Apify API.

Open bids (type: "opportunity"):

Field	What it holds
title, noticeType	The notice and its type.
agency, subTier, office	Who's buying.
solicitationNumber, noticeId	Identifiers.
postedDate, firstPostedDate, versions	Latest and first posting, and how many versions (amendments) there are.
responseDeadline, daysToRespond	When responses are due.
setAsideCode, setAside	The set-aside.
eligible, eligibleReason	Whether your certifications let you respond, and why.
naicsCode, matchedBy, pscCode	Classification, and which of your codes or words found it.
isArchitectEngineer, isProductBuy	A-E design work, or a product buy.
placeOfPerformance, stateSource, officeState	Where the work is done, and where the state came from.
primaryContact, secondaryContact	Name, email and phone.
mentionsClearance, clearanceMention	The notice mentions a clearance, SCIF or polygraph, and the words.
award	Award notices: number, date, amount, awardee.
description, descriptionLength	The first 2,000 characters, and the full length.
samUrl, additionalInfoUrl	Links.

Primes and teaming partners (type: "prime"):

Field	What it holds
role	large-prime or set-aside-peer (a teaming partner).
name, uei, parentName	The company.
businessSize, businessCategories	Size and USAspending's categories, such as Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business.
hasSubcontractingPlan, subcontractingPlanCode, subcontractingPlan	The FPDS plan code on its largest award in your codes.
obligatedInYourCodes, awardCount, lookbackMonths	Dollars and awards in your codes.
agencies, largestAwards	Its customers and 3 largest awards, with links.
largestAwardSubawards	Subawards reported on its largest award. Often empty, because many primes don't report them.
contractsEndingSoon	How many of this run's expiring contracts are its own.
usaspendingUrl	Its USAspending profile.

Contracts ending soon (type: "expiring-contract"):

• The award: awardId, awardType, amount, description and usaspendingUrl.
• Who holds it: incumbent, uei and incumbentUrl.
• Who's buying: agency and subAgency.
• What and where: naicsCode, naicsTitle, pscCode and placeOfPerformanceState.
• When: startDate, endDate and monthsLeft.

Subcontracting posts (type: "subcontracting-post"):

• The post: title, primeContractor, description and url.
• Dates: closingDate and performanceStartDate.
• Where: performancePlace and state.
• What: naicsCode and naicsTitle.
• Who to call: contactName, contactPhone and contactEmail.

On every row: changeSinceLastRun (new, updated or empty) and error.

An error row (free) says what was skipped or partial, in section and error.

Example row (JSON, shortened):

{
  "type": "opportunity",
  "changeSinceLastRun": "new",
  "title": "Network Operations Support Services",
  "noticeType": "Solicitation",
  "agency": "DEPT OF DEFENSE",
  "subTier": "DEPT OF THE ARMY",
  "solicitationNumber": "W000XX-27-R-0001",
  "postedDate": "2026-10-21 09:14:00",
  "versions": 2,
  "responseDeadline": "2026-11-12T14:00:00-06:00",
  "daysToRespond": 18,
  "setAsideCode": "SDVOSBC",
  "setAside": "Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Set-Aside (FAR 19.14)",
  "eligible": true,
  "eligibleReason": "SDVOSB set-aside: you hold SDVOSB certification.",
  "naicsCode": "541512",
  "placeOfPerformance": {"city": "San Antonio", "state": "TX", "zip": "78234", "country": "USA"},
  "primaryContact": {"name": "Pat Officer", "email": "pat.officer@army.mil", "phone": "210-555-0100"},
  "mentionsClearance": false,
  "samUrl": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/.../view",
  "error": null
}

(Example data.)

Pricing

You pay per row. There's no monthly fee and no API key to buy.

• Each open bid: $0.003, so $3 per 1,000.
• Each prime or teaming partner: $0.02. Each one is a profile built from several USAspending lookups.
• Each expiring contract: $0.005.
• Each subcontracting post: $0.003.
• Each run: a $0.02 start charge per GB of memory, so $0.02 at the default 1 GB. Every run downloads SAM.gov's full 210 MB file of active notices.
• Not charged: error rows, and rows "Only what's new" leaves out.

Worked examples:

• A first run with 130 open bids, 15 primes, 15 teaming partners and 100 expiring contracts: 130 × $0.003 + 30 × $0.02 + 100 × $0.005 + $0.02 = $1.51.
• A daily "only new" run with 10 new bids: $0.05.

Set a maximum cost per run for a hard ceiling. The run stores only what fits, and looks up no primes it couldn't charge for. Then it stops and says what it left out.

On Apify's free plan, a run returns at most 25 rows per section and 5 primes per list, as a sample. Any paid Apify plan removes that limit.

How it handles the hard cases

• Amendments. SAM.gov's file has a row for every version of a notice. They're grouped by solicitation number and agency. You get the newest version, with versions and firstPostedDate.
• No place of performance. About two in three notices give none. They're kept by default. With the setting off, the contracting office's state stands in, and stateSource says which was used.
• Set-asides you can't check. A local-area (disaster) set-aside, or a code it doesn't know, is kept with eligible empty and a reason.
• Architect-engineer work. A-E design jobs (PSC C codes: roofs, elevators, HVAC, building design) crowd 541330. They're left out unless you turn that off.
• Clearances. Bids that mention Secret, TS/SCI, a SCIF, a polygraph or a facility clearance are flagged. A CAC or base pass isn't. You can leave the flagged ones out.
• DoD data delay. DoD contract awards reach USAspending 90 days after award, by DoD rule. DoD primes and expiring DoD contracts look quieter than they are. The summary says so.
• Subaward reports. Many primes don't report subawards, so they're shown but not ranked on. The subcontracting plan code is the reliable signal.
• SBA SubNet. It has no API. Its listing is read from sba.gov, which was moving to a new site in October 2026, when only SubNet's first page loaded. Pages that fail give one free error row saying so, and the run goes on.
• A source that's down. SAM.gov's file is retried once. USAspending is tried 3 times with a pause between. A source that still fails gives an error row, and the other sections still run. The run is marked failed only when every section it ran failed.
• The run's time limit. The run stops starting new work a little before its timeout, and says what's left.

Compared with the free tools

SAM.gov saved searches are free and email new bids by NAICS code and set-aside. They're the right tool if bids are all you need. This Actor adds:

• the prime, teaming partner, expiring contract and SubNet sections
• an eligibility check across every set-aside at once
• one row per solicitation instead of one per amendment
• a spreadsheet or API you can feed into anything

USAspending's own search answers any one question about awards. This Actor asks the questions a subcontractor needs, across your codes, in one run.

Paid GovCon platforms (GovWin, GovTribe, HigherGov) do far more, for hundreds to thousands of dollars a year. This Actor costs a few dollars a month for daily monitoring.

Data from SAM.gov, USAspending.gov and the SBA. Not made by or affiliated with GSA, SAM.gov, USAspending, the SBA or any US government agency.

FAQ

Do I need a SAM.gov account or API key? No. Bids come from SAM.gov's public nightly file of all active notices, and awards from USAspending's public API. Neither needs a key.

How fresh is it? SAM.gov rebuilds the file every night, so a notice posted today appears in tomorrow morning's file. USAspending updates daily, except for DoD's 90-day delay.

Why are there so few bids in my state? Most notices don't name a place of performance, and much federal IT work is remote or at the agency's site. Leave states empty for nationwide work, or keep "Keep bids with no place of performance" on.

What's a subcontracting plan, and why does it matter? Under FAR 19.702, a large business winning a contract over $900,000 ($2 million in construction) must have a plan to subcontract to small businesses, with goals it reports on. Primes with plans are looking for small subs. hasSubcontractingPlan reads the plan code FPDS records on the prime's largest award in your codes.

Is a teaming partner a competitor? Often both. Firms winning the same set-asides know the agencies and can bring you in as a sub, or join you in a joint venture or mentor-protégé arrangement.

Does it check SDVOSB or 8(a) status in SAM.gov? No. It takes the certifications you say you hold and shows the bids they qualify for.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Turn on "Only what's new" and schedule it daily or weekly. The history is kept per set of NAICS codes and keywords, so changing other filters doesn't reset it.

Limits

• US federal contracts only. No grants, and no state or local bids, so Texas ESBD and other state portals aren't covered.
• Bids are SAM.gov notices over $25,000. DIBBS, GSA eBuy and agency-only portals aren't covered.
• Up to 20 NAICS codes per run. USAspending only takes codes of 2, 4 or 6 digits.
• Primes are ranked by dollars obligated in your codes over the lookback, not by how much they subcontract.
• SBA SubNet is best-effort while sba.gov changes.
• On Apify's free plan, 25 rows per section and 5 primes per list.

Integrations

This Actor runs on Apify, so everything the platform does works with it.

• API. Start a run and read the results from your own code, in any language. Apify API
• Schedules. Run your codes every morning with "Only what's new". Schedules
• Tasks. Save your input once as a task, and run it with one click or on a schedule. Tasks
• Webhooks. Get a call to your own URL when a run succeeds or fails. Webhooks
• Google Sheets and Drive. Download the results as CSV or Excel and open them in Sheets. Or add a Google Sheets step after this Actor in Make or Zapier. Datasets and exports, Google Drive
• Zapier, Make and n8n. Send new bids to email, Slack or a CRM. Zapier, Make, n8n
• AI agents (MCP). Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP clients can find and run this Actor through the Apify MCP server. Apify MCP server

Works with

• Website Contact Finder: find the emails and phones on a prime's website, such as its small business liaison or supplier diversity office.