SAM.gov Contract Opportunities (US Federal, No API Key)

SAM.gov Contract Opportunities Scraper (US Federal Contracts, No API Key)

Get SAM.gov contract opportunities — US federal solicitations, combined synopses, sources sought, presolicitations, special notices and award notices — with no SAM.gov API key and no login. Filter by keyword, NAICS, PSC, set-aside (SDVOSB, 8(a), HUBZone, WOSB and others), notice type, agency, place of performance and posted date. Results come from SAM.gov's official public daily extract, not from HTML scraping.

• ✅ Reliable: reads SAM.gov's official public daily extract instead of scraping the website, so no logins, captchas, rate limits or broken selectors
• ✅ Fast and cheap: typical "last 7 days" searches finish in ~1-3 seconds of crawl time, with no browser or proxy
• ✅ All the filters bid teams use: NAICS / PSC prefixes, set-asides (SBA, 8(a), SDVOSB, WOSB, HUBZone…), notice types, agencies, states, date windows, open-for-response only
• ✅ Monitoring mode: onlyNewSinceLastRun returns only notices you haven't received before. Schedule it daily for alerts
• ✅ Privacy-safe: contracting officers' names, emails and phone numbers are never included

Use cases

• Daily bid alerts for your NAICS codes and set-aside status
• Capture / BD pipelines, CRM and Slack feeds
• Market research: who buys what, where, and who wins (award notices with awardee and amount)
• GovCon newsletters and opportunity dashboards

Input

Field	Description
keywords	Whole word/phrase match, case-insensitive (any keyword). cyber* = prefix match. Searches title, solicitation number and (by default) the description
searchInDescription	Also match keywords in the description text (default true)
naicsCodes / pscCodes	Prefix match: 5415 matches 541511, 541512…; D3 matches D301, D310…
setAsideTypes	SAM.gov set-aside codes (SBA, 8A, SDVOSBC, WOSB, HZC…), ANY (any set-aside) or NONE (full & open)
noticeTypes	solicitation, combined, presolicitation, sources_sought, special_notice, award, justification, modification, surplus_sale, bundle
agencies	Substring of department, sub-tier or office (VETERANS AFFAIRS, FOREST SERVICE). Abbreviations work: DOD, ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE, VA, GSA, DHS, NASA, DLA…
placeOfPerformanceStates	State codes or names (TX, California)
postedWithinDays	Posted in the last N days (default 7, 0 = no limit)
postedFrom / postedTo	Explicit date range (overrides postedWithinDays)
activeOnly	Only active, non-archived notices (default true)
openForResponseOnly	Only notices whose response deadline hasn't passed
latestVersionOnly	One record per solicitation number (the newest notice)
includePre2022Awards	Include award notices posted before 4 Apr 2022 (default false, see Data limits)
onlyNewSinceLastRun / stateKey	Monitoring: skip notices delivered in earlier runs (separate memory per stateKey)
includeDescription	Add the notice description (contact details removed)
maxItems	Result cap (0 = unlimited)

Example: small-business IT opportunities still open for bids, posted in the last 14 days:

{
  "keywords": ["software", "cyber*", "cloud"],
  "naicsCodes": ["5415"],
  "setAsideTypes": ["ANY"],
  "noticeTypes": ["solicitation", "combined", "sources_sought"],
  "postedWithinDays": 14,
  "openForResponseOnly": true,
  "maxItems": 500
}

Output

One dataset item per notice:

{
  "noticeId": "34551fb14f374336ac3439876ac2d7b6",
  "solicitationNumber": "6973GH-27-R-FOMSSOFTWAREDEVELOPMENT",
  "title": "FOMS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT",
  "noticeType": "Sources Sought",
  "department": "TRANSPORTATION, DEPARTMENT OF",
  "subTier": "FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION",
  "office": "6973GH FRANCHISE ACQUISITION SVCS",
  "naicsCode": "541511",
  "pscCode": null,
  "setAsideCode": null,
  "setAside": null,
  "postedDate": "2026-10-27T15:24:01",
  "responseDeadline": "2026-11-06T17:00:00-05:00",
  "archiveDate": "2026-11-21",
  "active": true,
  "placeOfPerformance": "Oklahoma City, OK, USA",
  "popState": "OK",
  "awardNumber": null,
  "awardDate": null,
  "awardAmount": null,
  "awardee": null,
  "url": "https://sam.gov/opp/34551fb14f374336ac3439876ac2d7b6/view",
  "additionalInfoUrl": null,
  "source": "sam.gov-public-extract",
  "dataAsOf": "2026-10-28T03:30:31.000Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-28T23:45:44.829Z"
}

Field	Notes
noticeType	As labelled by SAM.gov (Solicitation, Combined Synopsis/Solicitation, Sources Sought, Award Notice…)
responseDeadline	As published. Usually ISO 8601 with the agency's offset, sometimes date only
postedDate	SAM.gov timestamp (no zone given by the source)
award*, awardee	Award notices only. awardee is the company name; its street address is removed
url	Public SAM.gov notice page (attachments live there)
dataAsOf	When SAM.gov generated the extract. It refreshes daily, early morning US time
description	Only with includeDescription. Emails, phone numbers and contact sentences are removed

The dataset has ready-made views: Overview, Awards and With description. A RUN_SUMMARY record in the key-value store shows rows scanned, matches, data freshness, duration and memory.

Pricing

This Actor uses pay per result: $1.50 per 1,000 notices ($0.0015 per notice in the dataset).

• 100 notices ≈ $0.15, 1,000 notices = $1.50
• All filters (NAICS, PSC, set-aside, agency, keyword, dates …) are applied before results are saved, so you pay only for matching notices. The full extract is scanned for free.
• With onlyNewSinceLastRun, a daily alert only charges for notices you haven't received yet.
• Set Maximum cost per run in the run options to cap spending.
• Apify's free plan includes monthly credit you can use to try it.

The live price list is on the Pricing tab of this page.

FAQ

Do I need a SAM.gov account or API key? No. The Actor reads SAM.gov's official public Contract Opportunities extract, which needs neither.

How current is the data? SAM.gov publishes the extract once a day, so new notices usually appear the next morning (US Eastern).

How do I get daily bid alerts? Set your filters, turn on onlyNewSinceLastRun, and add a daily schedule. Connect the dataset to email, Slack, Google Sheets or a webhook through Apify integrations.

Can I get award data? Yes. Award notices include the awardee business name, award number, date and amount. Older awards (before 4 April 2022) are excluded by default; see Data limits.

Why is a title cut off? Titles are returned exactly as they appear in SAM.gov's extract, and some are already truncated there.

Can I get historical / archived opportunities? No. The public extract contains active notices only.

Privacy

Only information about the opportunity is returned, never about people:

• The extract's point-of-contact columns (names, titles, emails, phones, fax) are never read. Neither are place-of-performance street addresses or SAM.gov workspace links.
• Awardee street addresses are stripped, so only the business name is kept.
• In titles and descriptions, emails and phone numbers are removed. So are sentences carrying contact cues ("contact the Contracting Officer…", "Name/Title: …", "Mr. …") and trailing signatures. Free-text cleaning is heuristic.

Limits & tips

• Data is SAM.gov's public daily snapshot, so a notice posted today usually appears the next morning. For a daily alert, schedule the Actor after ~06:00 US Eastern with onlyNewSinceLastRun.
• The public extract covers active notices. Archived/historical notices aren't in it.
• Notices that are restricted or controlled (CUI) on SAM.gov aren't in the public extract.
• Attachments aren't downloaded. Open url to get them.

Data limits

SAM.gov notes that entity information in records from before 4 April 2022 (when the government switched from DUNS numbers to its own Unique Entity ID) may include Dun & Bradstreet data, which has restrictions on commercial use and redistribution. To keep your results clean, award notices posted before 4 April 2022 are excluded by default. If you need them, set includePre2022Awards to true. You're then responsible for checking that your use of any D&B-sourced awardee data is permitted. Other notice types aren't affected, and the current public extract contains very few notices that old.

Legal & data use

• Data comes from SAM.gov's official public extract, which is US government information published for public use. The Actor doesn't scrape logged-in pages, CUI or restricted notices.
• It's built to return opportunity data, not personal data: contact names, emails and phone numbers are excluded (see Privacy).
• See Data limits for Dun & Bradstreet restrictions on pre-2022 award records.
• Not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) or SAM.gov. Always confirm details on the official notice before you bid.

Running on Apify

You can run this Actor on the Apify platform from the Console, the API, a schedule, integrations (webhooks, Slack, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier) or MCP.

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